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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95510 is a reply to message #95509]

Sun, 10 April 2022 12:42

Wayne Parham
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The Tulsa drive-in is called "Admiral Twin" and it's still in operation and still awesome. I love that place! It was shown in the movie "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. The Admiral Twin Drive-In movie theater was the location for many scenes in that movie.

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95511 is a reply to message #95510]

Sun, 10 April 2022 14:08

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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There's still at least a couple movie drive-ins where I live. They supplement income by being swap shops now days.
But I was referring to the old style drive-in restaurants. They were the mecca for kids and cars. Rear ends tipped up with the fat slicks and mag wheels, which were the requirement for any self styled greaser putting on a show in the parking lot. Inching along while the fat rear end tires were scorching the black top.
Sidney's, that was the premier one. Straight outta American Graffiti.

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95512 is a reply to message #95511]

Sun, 10 April 2022 14:53

Wayne Parham
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Oh yeah, those! Definitely!

In Tulsa, the place like that I remember best was Pennington's. We still have Sonic Drive-Ins everywhere, and that's super-cool, but they're just not the same. They've kept the drive-in stalls, which is cool, but they've lost the nostalgic drive-in look somehow.

Pennington's Drive-In Restaurant was on Peoria, back when that was "the strip." But Peoria was two-lanes, so by 1980, it was a parking lot. Seemed like overnight - in around 1980 - everyone shifted to Memorial Drive, which was a four-lane road.

In both cases - Peoria or Memorial - the restaurants and parking lots facing the road on either side were filled with parked cars and teenagers going back and forth between cars, talking and fooling around. Drivers on "the strip" went north a few miles and then turned around and went south, only to turn around and do it again. As you said above, it was just like the movie, "American Graffiti."

Some people hated that and thought the kids that hung out there were trouble. But the truth is most of the kids "hanging out" on the strip were good kids. They weren't afraid to show their face in public, which says something, if you think about it. Truly troubled youth don't hang out in public.

Same is true today, in my opinion. And I still see kids hangin' out on Memorial Drive so that renews my hope that the youth aren't totally lost...

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95514 is a reply to message #95512]

Sun, 10 April 2022 15:20

Wayne Parham
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While we're on a drive-in kick here, I gotta mention a couple of my favorite places in "your neck of the woods."

When I come into Kansas City, I love to go to Winstead's and to Town Topic. Winstead's still has the same old "drive-in" look, so I think that's cool. It's on a busy road, but it isn't really a "strip," as I recall. But Kelly and I went there a time or three and we love it. We love places like that.

And when I was commuting to Kansas City around 2010 - I did some work for a company called VML - which was right by Union Station. So I ate at Town Topic at least once a week. Kind of cracked me up that they had two restaurants well within a mile of each other. Heck, they're only a couple blocks apart! Not a drive-in, but still a little bit of history and I love that.

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95515 is a reply to message #95514]

Sun, 10 April 2022 16:24

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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Yes and yes. Though Winsteads as I fondly remember and have now given up on pretty much. Has languished from it's heyday. Nothin like it was, in quality and quantity. Town Topic I haven't gone to in some time either. I've been discouraged by the carnage to the restaurant business from the covid pandemic. So many just not able to weather the beating from lack of patronage. Such a slim margin they work under. One particular throwback to the classic diner here has closed which I lament greatly. The Leeds Diner. Just a simple blue collar restaurant that was good & plenty. So many diners and dives have become extinct. If our economy can ever stabilize to some semblance of normalcy though. They will come back. Working stiffs and aficionado's of good grub on the cheap will always prevail.

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95844 is a reply to message #95515]

Sun, 17 July 2022 13:05

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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This compilation album I acquired sometime back in the 70's. Gabe's Dirty Blues.

https://i.discogs.com/ZxNO6xBMgeiigtjQiKYIY0viCfSVU_V_NA6-aKRArsk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ1MzE0/NTQtMTQ4ODQ5MDI0/Mi0yOTM5LmpwZWc.jpeg

My introduction to classic not so subtle double entendre r&b from it's heyday from the late 40's throughout the 50's. With artists like Billy Ward & the Dominoes doing, 60 Minute Man and Wynonie Harris, Keep On Churning and Bull Moose Jackson singing of his preference for, I Want a Bow Legged Woman.
Timeless stuff. One of my most cherished and best vinyl purchases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwSPCZm61uk

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #95845 is a reply to message #95844]

Sun, 17 July 2022 13:31

Wayne Parham
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Dude, that's awesome!

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #97959 is a reply to message #95845]

Sat, 17 August 2024 11:43

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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Thought I'd revive this thread as the venerable 'record player' has, is and will be my mainstay till I'm reduced to chunks of powder. Or made into Soylent Green.

I had a hard time acquiring this album because there are predatory vendors on the internet that take your money and play a waiting game with you. Don't shop Merchbar. They're ethically bankrupt. Took awhile creating a 'case' with Paypal to obtain a refund.

Anyway, warning stated. I've loosely followed the career of Ry Cooder for some time. Seen him perform. I found out about this album just by clicking on a Youtube like I do at times and was taken with an album he did around the turn of the century with a Cuban artist Manuel Galban. A blend of Cuban jazz and latin standards that is really a fun album to listen to. The wait was well worth it.

La Luna en tu Mirada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3k0uQXMxq0
Dig that caddies, 'Maidenform' rear end.

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #97960 is a reply to message #97959]

Sat, 17 August 2024 17:15

Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001

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What a cool album cover!

Good catch to resurrect this thread.

Right now, I'm listening to Steely Dan, Aja.

I made a 2024 mix tape - cassette - that has a lot of heartfelt songs about loss. Stuff from Coldplay and some from Genesis. Deep and meaningful stuff. But I intermixed in some fun and lively - quirky, actually - music from the Cars, the B-52s and Tubeway Army, all from the late 70s and 80s.

It's an eclectic mix that ebbs and wanes emotionally. Perfect for describing 2024 for me. Been listening to it in my Impala.

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Re: Your Heavy Rotation Right Now [message #97961 is a reply to message #97960]

Sat, 17 August 2024 18:41

Rusty
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Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

Illuminati (3rd Degree)

Wow, mix tapes. I used to do that quite a bit. Fun making them, then listening. I still have a 3 head Sony cassette player. It needs a new drive belt I'm reckoning. Tapes won't turn. Just a matter of buying one. I've downloaded a video how-to for doing the job. Seems the tape medium has come back also some. I never cared for the Dolby settings though. It just seemed to suck out all the brilliance of the recording. I'd take a little tape hiss over it.

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