The Academy Video store in Greenwich, CT is fizzling out, along with other things that have been dinosaured due to better, faster, smarter technology. Sis and I got a couple of DVDs there last week.I found Sex and the Single Girl [1964] and my big sister bought it for us to share; she lent it to me first. It's not gripping, but is entertaining as a period piece [fashion, furnishings, magazine business, hosiery sales etc.], and both Natalie Wood and Lauren Bacall are stunning. [I've also met Helen Gurley Brown, whose book inspired the movie. Hearst Magazines owns Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, and we'd sometimes ride up on the elevator together. And the editor I greatly admire, Ellen Levine, worked closely with HGB at Cosmo for many years--two degrees of separation.]
Anyway, a nod to other things I remember that are gone or soon to be gone, like those clunky videotapes:
1. Eight-track tapes
2. Roller skates with keys
3. Little blue and white U.S. Mail jeeps, like the one our mailman George had in Dumont
4. Buckle-back jeans
5. Wetson's for hamburgers [It was like McDonald's, but all orange inside--it's funny, H. and I grew up not far from each other though we didn't meet until we were in our 20s.....but we both remember going to the Wetson's in Hackensack.]
6. Bonnet hair dryers
Off to sleep.
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Alice,
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool that you rode in the elevator with such an icon. Probably said good morning to each other or exchanged a few words?
Don't think there are too many drive-in theaters left, either.
Love, Linda
Hi Linda....Yes, we'd say good morning, but once I introduced myself to her....when she left the reins of Cosmo, some of her displaced staff came over to Good Housekeeping...and the woman who shared my office, and used to work as an editor for HGB, told me that the icon would love it if I said hello to her. So i did. we chit-chatted and it was fine. she said i was lucky to be a writer. HGB still loves fashion.....and yes, you are right re. drive-in theaters. when i was driving sis home from surgery last week, we passed where we both remembered seeing drive-in at whitestone? when we drove to and from the Bronx in our parents' car. love, alice
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