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Post by mich64 on May 22, 2020 15:58:02 GMT
My first flight was in 1965, from an Air Force Base somewhere in northern France and I am not sure where we landed? I will have to ask my dad when I talk to him next. I remember seeing our family passport.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 22, 2020 16:12:32 GMT
I think we still had our American family passport for our trip in 1960, but I had an individual French passport already when I was two years old.
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Post by mich64 on May 23, 2020 1:23:25 GMT
I called my dad, so we departed from Marville, France and arrived in Trenton, Ontario. My dad said we then drove to London to visit his family for a couple of weeks before driving to Nova Scotia where my mom's family lived. Finally arrived in Summerside, P.E.I., after about a month of family holiday time where we lived for almost 5 years.
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Post by Kimby on May 23, 2020 1:33:38 GMT
My first flight was in 1957 from London to Toronto with stops for meals (and refuelling I guess) in Iceland and Goose Bay, Labrador. This is the North Atlantic Route, which was used by the restored WWII warbirds en route from North America to Europe. Short hops over the sea, with refueling stops along the way, including the stops you mentioned, bjd.
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Post by bjd on May 23, 2020 7:40:01 GMT
I don't remember anything about that flight except the stopover in Reykjavik. The "airport" was in fact a big field with a building on it and all the kids were allowed to go run around outside after the meal. There were Icelandic ponies grazing not far away.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 23, 2020 8:26:49 GMT
I certainly remember travelling to Switzerland twice and Italy twice by train firstly as a schoolboy and then for my honeymoon. Much preferable to flying.
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Post by lugg on May 23, 2020 9:34:59 GMT
I lot of the flights I have taken recently have meant a walk across the tarmac; which I much prefer that to getting on those jam packed buses after a long wait. I guess that will be even worse in these covid times, once air travel recommences. My first flight was in 1974 - package holiday to Spain. It was terrible ,left me with a fear of flying for years, not that it stopped me. The first time I went abroad though was when I was 9 on a school trip to Belgium, that traumatised me too. Discovered the stew thing we'd eaten for dinner was made using horse meat.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 23, 2020 9:47:47 GMT
Ah, the original carbonnade flamande.... These days it is made out of beef, a similar animal to the horse.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 28, 2020 8:19:43 GMT
Amos ‘n’ Andy. The TV version of course.
(Not sure why they popped up this morning.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2020 1:47:05 GMT
Oh, I remember that well. I remember watching it at my grandparents house, which makes me think it was on during summer reruns, when we'd be visiting them.
A cousin of mine used to quote lines from the show at (semi) appropriate moments, and it was always funny. He'd also use "quotes" that seemed to be from the show, but weren't the kind of thing I can repeat here.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2020 2:55:14 GMT
I was always fascinated by the fact that the wife's name was Sapphire.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2020 5:10:04 GMT
I've always wondered why certain things within a type become first names and others don't. For instance, for men you have Glen and Forest (or Forrest) as names, but not valley or hill. Women are called Pearl, Ruby, and (in Spanish) Esmeralda, but not Sapphire, which makes a pretty name.
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Post by questa on Jul 30, 2020 8:18:14 GMT
In the 1890s - 1920s there was a craze to name girls after flowers or even trees. As one gardening writer put it..."The fathers of daughters confused them with the herbaceous borders". How many women do you know still carrying Myrtle or Laurel, Rosemary or Ivy. These days it would be used as a "Let's call her Rose after great-Aunt Rosie" rather than a straight flower name.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2020 10:26:47 GMT
I remember when shops were sold out of toilet paper and people were stocking up on flour.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2020 11:23:07 GMT
What? To use instead of toilet paper?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2020 14:09:32 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2020 15:39:15 GMT
I remember when Bruce Jenner appeared on the boxes of Wheaties cereal, a brand which I never ate because I'm sure it wasn't sugary enough. Is anybody on the boxes now?
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Post by lagatta on Aug 18, 2020 18:44:48 GMT
Was he already a star when you were a child?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2020 18:56:06 GMT
Mmmmm. How old do you think Kerouac is?!
Bruce Jenner got his gold medal in 1976.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 18, 2020 19:14:27 GMT
Tricky. He’s retired but might have retired early. 63.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2020 19:35:07 GMT
I only act like a child.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2020 20:55:43 GMT
Back when Kerouac was a child kids had to fish around in their stone bowls of gruel to find the prize.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 18, 2020 21:05:54 GMT
Did he ask for more?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2020 21:16:57 GMT
Well, he gestured for more. Speech had not yet evolved.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 18, 2020 22:15:05 GMT
I remember when Bruce Jenner appeared on the boxes of Wheaties cereal, a brand which I never ate because I'm sure it wasn't sugary enough. Is anybody on the boxes now? Still athletes on the big orange Wheaties box. But Bruce Jenner is no longer Bruce. She’s Kaitlin Jenner now, I believe. I remember a time when there were only 2 genders and no one ever swapped theirs.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 19, 2020 0:16:19 GMT
All I know is that we are both boomers. Not really interested in further detail and it is not wise to pose it on discussion boards, for obvious reasons.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2020 1:00:00 GMT
If anyone cares, I went to the superette this evening and made a point of looking at the cereal. Every cereal was represented by some kind of cartoon animal.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 19, 2020 11:46:36 GMT
I guess Zucaritas is honest about its contents, at least. What godawful crap.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 19, 2020 12:37:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2020 16:50:35 GMT
So it really is the breakfast of champions!
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