Morning Update, October 27, 2009

The_Kitchen_Guy

There were no new developments in Paige's case yesterday. No news, no new developments.

In news of Candles for Paige we had 49 candles as of this post. Remember, candles go out after 48 hours so keep lighting candles for Paige, her family and her three children.

Instructions for lighting candles for Paige are in the Missing thread, in this post.

On This Day In History...

...in 1904, the New York City subway system made its first run with Mayor George McClellan at the throttle of the first train. The subway opened as a way to reduce congestion on the streets of New York. The first subway was London's tube that opened in 1863. (It was completed by Charles Yerkes, the tycoon from Chicago who built Chicago's Elevated system. See Morning Update, October 21, 2008 for more about Charles Yerkes.) Boston opened the first US subway in 1897 but the New York System came to be the largest. As time went on, the private operators of subways could not sustain their operations, and they came under control of the New York City Transit Authority. Today, over 4 and a half million riders use the NY Subway daily. It operates 24/7, the only rapid transit system to do so. (Some parts of the Chicago El operate 24/7 but not the entire system.)


City Hall Station in 1904, on the Interburough Rapid Transit line.

...in 1938, Charles Stine, a vice-president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Incorporated announced Du Pont was calling its new synthetic fabric "nylon" and legs would never be the same.


A knitting machine produced
stockings at the 1939 World's Fair.


This 1949 ad in Life magazine
hyped the virtues of nylon.

...in 1945, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was arrested at the conclusion of WWII. A few days ago, we learned about Dr. Porsche's design that became the Volkswagon, and his factory became a Nazi production facility where Volkswagon-based staff cars, amphibious Schwimmwagen and Tiger tanks were built. Porsche was arrested and taken to France to await trial. Meanwhile, the British began to build his Volkswagen in the factory, after it was rebuilt from damage inflicted by Allied bombing. Porsche was released in 1947 and he began designing sportscars, the most famous being the 911.


Ferdinand Porsche built the first hybrid in 1901. The "Mixte" used a Daimler
engine to turn a generator that fed electric motors on the wheel hubs.

...in 1954, the divorce between Marilyn Monroe and Joe Demagio became final.


Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe
and Tstsuzo Inumaru in Japan during
the coiuple's honeymoon in 1954. Monroe
filed for divorce just 274 days into the marriage.

...in 1962, the world stepped back from the brink of nuclear war as the Cuban missile crisis approached a solution. It was a game of brinkmanship between Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev and President John F. Kennedy. It was said that the first one to blink would lose, and President Kennedy later said, "Khruchev blinked." In a long, rambling letter, Khruschev appealed to Kennedy to "...let us show good sense." It was agreed that the Soviets would remove the offensive missiles from Cuba if the US would remove offensive missiles from Turkey. The plan was accepted and a nuclear holocaust was avoided.

...in 1954, the ABC network premiered Walt Disney's first television show, entitled Disneyland. The opening featured Tinkerbell and each week, the program featured a drama, cartoon feature, natural life or adventures. In various forms, with different titles and on several networks, the show ran for 34 years, the longest running prime-time televisions series.



That's it. That's all we know as of 12:01 AM, EDT.

raebates

I remember watching The Wonderful World of Disney as a kid. I can remember enjoying the show no matter what aired in a particular episode. Often Mom would make popcorn and my brother and I would share a bottle of Pepsi. It was always Pepsi, never Coke. One of us would pour it into glasses and the other would get first choice. If it was a really special evening we'd get to use the Slush Mugs.

The_Kitchen_Guy

I was a big fan of the shows that featured tours of Disneyland (it would take until my 20's to actually get there, and by then, the magic was pretty well gone for me) and I liked the cartoon characters.

Disney always did the intros himself, and I remember a couple of episodes where he interacted with Donald Duck. In one episode, they spent a lot of time talking about cartooning and how features were created, with concepts like the "plausible impossible" (the only one I really remember) and showing how each drawing was transferred to a gel and colored in. It was all very painstaking work in the days before cheap Mexican labor (Jay Ward doing Rocky and Bullwinkle) and cheap Korean labor (Matt Groening and The Simpsons) and before today's CGI.

I think my favorite Disney character was Goofy - Gworsh! - although that's probably not a surprise to anyone.

baychef

Before I get serious...hmmmm....nylons, Marilyn Monroe...KG you have to keep this usting for women under control!!!! Are you a leg man??? (and I don't mean chicken or turkey leg either!)

I loved watching Walt do the intro to the movies! My grandparents went to Disney World soon after it opened. Always remember the postcard they sent me hoping that I would be able to see it someday. Little did I know, my Grandmother would pass away a few years later from cancer.

The_Kitchen_Guy

You're dreamin'.

If I lust after anything on this page, it would be for one of Ferdinand Porsche's machines - and not a Beetle, either.