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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 21, 2010 18:51:05 GMT -5
My first attempt at building a Moe was sugar cubes then covered with plaster...interesting results... I'll bet! My imagination runs wild.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 21, 2010 18:54:54 GMT -5
I LOVED the illustrations in Penn Warren's book---some of the best ever done, in terms of capturing character and action, of the Alamo and its players, even when I look back now. I forgot about that one. Yes. Excellent. But I do not have it in my library. I must have just borrowed it from the town library which I used to frequent a lot, even at nine and ten years old. I'd love to read that one again. I remember it as being more sophistocated than other children's books about the Alamo, but I couldn't tell you why.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 21, 2010 18:57:20 GMT -5
My first attempt at building a Moe was sugar cubes then covered with plaster...interesting results... I'll bet! My imagination runs wild. The trouble with my Playdough idea was that it curls when it hardens, so nothing fit. But I promise you, if you were to open up a can of Playdough today and I got the whiff of the smell, it would bring nostalgia tears to my eyes.
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Post by marklemon on Jun 21, 2010 20:46:16 GMT -5
[quote/]The trouble with my Playdough idea was that it curls when it hardens, so nothing fit. But I promise you, if you were to open up a can of Playdough today and I got the whiff of the smell, it would bring nostalgia tears to my eyes.[/quote] well, at least you weren't sniffing airplane glue like I was what's that they say? A mind is a terrible thing to waste....between sniffing playdough, eating school paste, and smelling mimeograph fumes on school handouts, it's a wonder any of us made it out of adolescence!
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Post by garyzaboly on Jun 22, 2010 4:04:44 GMT -5
I LOVED the illustrations in Penn Warren's book---some of the best ever done, in terms of capturing character and action, of the Alamo and its players, even when I look back now. I forgot about that one. Yes. Excellent. But I do not have it in my library. I must have just borrowed it from the town library which I used to frequent a lot, even at nine and ten years old. I'd love to read that one again. I remember it as being more sophistocated than other children's books about the Alamo, but I couldn't tell you why. Warren being a Pulitzer-Prize winner and a Poet Laureate might have had something to do with it! Actually his book leans heavily on John Myers Myers, but the illustrations (dynamic painted cover by Taylor Oughton and superb, tinted pen and ink drawings by William Moyers) made it a keeper. Wish I'd saved that 5th grade illustrated book report I did (my first "serious" Alamo compound, 1961).
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Post by Kevin Young on Jun 22, 2010 7:58:48 GMT -5
[quote/]The trouble with my Playdough idea was that it curls when it hardens, so nothing fit. But I promise you, if you were to open up a can of Playdough today and I got the whiff of the smell, it would bring nostalgia tears to my eyes. well, at least you weren't sniffing airplane glue like I was what's that they say? A mind is a terrible thing to waste....between sniffing playdough, eating school paste, and smelling mimeograph fumes on school handouts, it's a wonder any of us made it out of adolescence![/quote] You can add the killer playground equipment and in my case, the industrial waste from the corn packing plants that was in the river we used to play in...
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Post by Bill Yowell on Jun 22, 2010 9:37:05 GMT -5
Amen on the mimeograph fumes. If the Johnson company that produces "Glade" would put that scent in an aerosol can, I think that it would be the absolute top seller. I don't think that I ever knew a baby boomer that didn't love that smell.
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Post by TRK on Jun 22, 2010 11:32:25 GMT -5
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Post by Jim Boylston on Jun 22, 2010 12:42:17 GMT -5
Remember the insecticide spray trucks that used to drive through the neighborhoods trailed by white clouds of bug-killer? We used to run along behind them and play in that. Nice.
Jim
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Post by garyzaboly on Jun 22, 2010 12:43:01 GMT -5
Tom, That was a favorite too...it had color scenes the gum cards didn't. I ended up about 10 years ago finding a complete copy on Ebay. Very heavy dose of nostalgia.
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Post by TRK on Jun 22, 2010 16:30:08 GMT -5
Gary, that Crockett stamp book was the very first book I ever went totally ape over in a bookstore. Half a century later, I can still remember the rush of first seeing that gorgeous book like it was yesterday. Call it the first high of a 'Mo book junkie, lol.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Jun 22, 2010 20:27:08 GMT -5
Thanks guys! I just pulled out my copy, which I found on eBay years ago. I thought it was a real coup as the stamps were still intact, in their original sheets at the front of the book. BUT, the sheets had somehow gotten stuck together and can not be separated! This drove me instantly to eBay, once again, where I found another copy, which I bought for around $25!
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Post by Tom Nuckols on Jun 22, 2010 21:45:50 GMT -5
Don't forget 'We were there at the battle of the Alamo'. Also full of great Alamo art. Those "We Were There" books were great. I read every one in my elementary school's library.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 22, 2010 22:31:10 GMT -5
Thanks guys! I just pulled out my copy, which I found on eBay years ago. I thought it was a real coup as the stamps were still intact, in their original sheets at the front of the book. BUT, the sheets had somehow gotten stuck together and can not be separated! This drove me instantly to eBay, once again, where I found another copy, which I bought for around $25! Oh I..... I just feel so bad for you. ( ;D)
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 22, 2010 22:33:17 GMT -5
Other than Playdough, I kept my "high" life for later! When that Kindergarten teacher told me the white paper paste came from dead horses, that kept me straight. Of course, I've never trusted a teacher since. lol.
But BOY that stuff was good.
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