in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[MROO]

I watched her go from here.

And we watched her fallout from waaaaaaay over here on the East Coast. The whole thing was scary!

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[CombNWattles]

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“Parking offense”

 

[EmmaDonovan]

This is the Edison power plant in my home town.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Monarch butterfly colony in Mexico.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

This is a man named Heinz Meixner defecting from East Germany by driving through Checkpoint Charlie. His fiancée, Margarete, is hidden in the tiny section behind the driver's seat. His future mother-in-law is crammed into the cramped luggage area.

They made it.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Premiered on this date (December 16th) 57 years ago.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[cavemanrich]

Premiered on this date (December 16th) 57 years ago.

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No idea who these peeps are. We did not have a TV when I was small.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

No idea who these peeps are. We did not have a TV when I was small.

It's a movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley, Adrian Hall.

It's based on a children's novel by Ian Fleming (!). The screenplay was co-written by children's author Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, etc.).

It's a very fun and whimsical movie with great songs. Dick Van Dyke absolutely shines in it. In my opinion this role even surpasses his role in Mary Poppins (which came out four years earlier).