Luv2play

Was this before the song by the Village People?

Didn't they do an imprint of the plastic ones also before electronic readers came along? The plastic ones wore down sooner which led to the expression "Don't wear out your credit card".

In your position, I would try to reach out to my relatives, the ones your ex outed you to. If you can establish or repair links with them, then your ex will have no further hold on you or your emotions. If your relatives are not receptive to your overtures, then try to strengthen your relationships with your friends. After all, we don't get to choose our relatives but we do get to choose our friends. It's even nicer to have both on your side.

Lovely, I’m sure, but I’m not a sports fan. Except of the indoor variety, laying down with the lights turned low.

At night?

Reminds me of the Duchess of Windsor. Her first husband was a military guy from the military base in San Diego. She grew bored of him within a short time, ditched him, and two husbands later married the King of England. (well ex-king, he had to give up the throne to marry her). Went to show, if you want to succeed in life, get out of San Diego.

Personally I enjoy the strip tease.

I don't think this has been mentioned. I remember putting my feet in an x-Ray machine at the shoe store in Montreal where I grew up. There were two periscopes on top of this machine, which was the size of cigarette machine and you stood up on a platform and inserted your feet with the new shoes to see if they fit. I could look in one periscope on the top of the machine and the salesman or my mother could look in the other periscope. Really neat. We didn’t think about over exposure of x-rays in those days and my feet are still cancer free. Lol.

I remember the Soviets launching Sputnik in 1957 (I think that was the date). It was on the news on our black and white TV). The Americans went crazy.

I think the 49/ “woody” pictured above had real wood whereas the 91version below was phoney wood. Collectors will pay hundreds of thousands for the “real McCoy” but not much for the ersatz version.

I once had sex with a priest but I met him in a gay bar and he was in regular clothes. He only told me after the dirty deed had been done. I felt weird about it.

That’s so Fire Island in days of yore.

Cerf was my favorite. He was so erudite and always had a twinkle in his eye. So many people died mysteriously after JFK’s assassination. Like Mary Myers, his girlfriend and mistress, wife of the CIA deputy head, Cord Myers.

I have a friend here who is in her 90’s and Dewey was a neighbour of her family in an apartment building on 5th Ave. In New York when she was a kid. I think she said Roosevelt sent him to Russia during the war to visit Stalin but could be wrong about that.

I remember when Dorothy Kilgallon died. She was doing a television show from NewYork, a panel show. Was it What’s My Line? Anyway, the host of the show was almost in tears the next episode. I think Bennet Cerf was on the show too. Many years later I read her death was suspicious. Is my memory serving me right here?

I only kept a diary once. On my first trip to Europe in 1969. It was a 3 and a half month hitchhiking voyage to 13 countries. It was a daily diary and I referred to it in 2019 the entire summer to recollect where I had been and done on that day 50 years ago. I then put it away and maybe will take it out in 2029. Should I survive that long and remember what book shelf it is on. Lol

Well you must keep a daily diary. Good for you. Do you refer to it often?

Boy, what kind of records do you keep? That was the year of the American Bicentennial. I remember that summer in quite a bit of detail but not down to days and how evenings were spent. Except one night in PTown.

I remember when Le Marais was relatively cheap. That was when Le Musee Pompidou was new.

I seem to remember some gay bars with back rooms in Paris in the 80s around Les Halles. Is that possible? One night I was in one with my then lover and when he emerged his gold chain necklace which I had given to him was gone. Was I pissed!

Do you or anyone else remember when the Bronx closed. Was it still going in the 1980's? From what I reading here it had its heyday in the 70's but the name rings a bell for me but it would have had to be in the 80's. That's when I started visiting the gay bars in Paris. On my trips there in the 70's I was only there on business trips and sampling their Michelin starred restaurants. A completely different scene.

It’s that maritime rule of requiring a stop at a foreign port which has created the issue. I’m not sure how easy it would be to change it as it’s tied in with a long-standing rule of commerce, I believe.

Forget it. Canada has banned all cruise ships in its territory until 2022 and they must go through Canadian waters to get to Alaska. So Alaska cannot have any cruises ships at its ports for the next year. The governor of Alaska expressed his great disappointment at this announcement. This was just a week ago. I haven’t studied the geography but don’t know why they just don’t go via Russia. After all Alaska used to belong to the Russians. I do know from my history that Canada was upset with the British when they traded away our territory to the Americans in the 19th century when we were still a colony of Britain’s. They gave the U S the Alaskan panhandle and Oregon and Washington.

That might be true for aToronto’s Pearson Airport but the last time I flew from Ottawa’s airport to New York vis Newark NJ , I cleared customs and immigration there, not Ottawa. And on the return, I had to do the same at Ottawa, not NJ. This was just 6 months before the pandemic struck.

Yes those CNN guys are quite dishy.