"Things I like..." Personal Page by gregoryr1m

Fondest Memory
This was my grandfather's grocery store as I remember it as a small boy. Saturday afternoon visits with my parents were very special to me. As my parents shopped, my sister and I would make our weekly rounds...

"Hi Mable." She worked in the bakery.
"Morning Dick." Dick Bowman, the butcher.
"Hello Dorothy" (pssst.... she had blue hair like some ladies do. hehe)

And of course, stopping by my grandfather's office which over looked the entire store and we'd yell out, "MOM! DAD! Hi... up here!"

Grandpa would give us candy or a bottle of pop or a piece of fruit. Very fond memories, indeed!

Old Radio
I am a HUGE fan of old radios show, I have been collecting them since I was in high school... Jack Benny, The Shadow, Suspense, Fibber McGee & Molly... I love them all. The photograph was taken during a broadcast of the Jack Benny Show. Photographer unknown.

Here's a great source to download old radio show* RadioLover's.com

* Most. if not all old radio show from the 1920' to the early 1950's are public domain. Those such show had sponsers, such as J-E-L-L-O or Grape Nut Flakes, who owned their shows outright. After the copywrite ran out, those such sponsors never had any interest in marketing those radio shows so they went into public domain.

Cribbage
I love a good cribbage game. 15/2 - 15/4 - a run of 3 is 7....

Far Side
I loved Far Side and miss seeing it in my daily newspaper. Nothing compares... Gary Larson's sick, twisted way of looking at life always made me laugh. I think his philosophy in life is, "If a tree falls in the forest, what sound does it make?"

Movies
Some of my favorite movies, mind you this is just the start of my list:

Dracula (Lugosi version, of course)
Casablanca
The Sixth Sense
The Blue Dahlia
Metropolis
Arsenic and Old Lace
North By Northwest
City Lights (really anything by Chaplin)
Some Like It Hot
Citizen Kane
Manhatten
One, Two, Three
White Heat
Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney)
Hard Days Night
L. A. Confidential
Pulp Fiction
The Quiet Man
Ed Wood
Suspicion
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
Christmas Story
Life Is Beautiful
Blues Brothers Movie
Ragtime
Little Voice

Music
What can I say about music? It seems to be a universal laguange that all can relate to. As Louis Armstrong described good music as, "if you like it, then it's good music."

Reading
I have always liked the writers of the Algonquin Roundtable and the whole period. Here are the writers worth reading:

Dorothy Parker
Robert Benchley
Edna Ferber
Marc Connelly
Franklin Piece Adams (FPA)
George S. Kaufman
Heywood Broun
Dorothy Hale
Robert Sherwood *

Some of their contemporaries who were not memebers of the roundtable but worth reading are:

James Thurber
E. B. White
Groucho Marx
S. J. Perelman
Ring Lardner %f*

I love reading pulp fiction because pulp fiction is fun, it's corney, it's fascination. It transforms you into a world where cops and detectives are bad and street smart and to women are dangerous. And when these books became movies, they called the genre, "Film Noir" which is one of my favorites.

Some writers worth visiting are:
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Elmore Leonard
James Ellroy