Just found this as well.
Note: The Crying Trees.
@Lancia, a bit of music to trigger the Gyruss nostalgia.
Check Facebook for a Frankfort ‘Remember When’ or historical group, or one for the county. Nearly every town/county has at least one such group, which almost always includes lots of photos of old buildings such as the one you’re looking for. If that fails, a newspaper from the time period when it opened will have a photo, usually on the front page.
I remember a set of cards from the late 80s that featured various monsters or mythological creatures. They were larger than regular playing cards, maybe about the size of a standard index card. One card in particular was a Will-o’-the-wisp, and IIRC there were something like 10-20 cards in the set. The front had an illustration and the back a short description. They were definitely not Magic the Gathering cards, as this would have been before even Alpha was released. Any ideas what I might be remembering?
When we lived in southern Massachusetts between 1995 and 1997 there was a nearby store that sold remainder lots, much like Big Lots and Ocean State Job Lots does now. In addition to selling Areo chocolate bars before they were generally imported into the US, they sold Chuck E Cheese brand pizza flavored crackers. They were not particularly good yet strangely addictive. We bought boxes and boxes of the things for the few months they sold them.
And in the 20-odd years since neither of us has ever found a single picture online of them, and no mention of them either. I know that they existed and can only imagine that they were a trial product that this store ended up with a lot of.
@Lobotomyboy incredible, I never really figured I’d hear that thing again! You got some serious Google-fu there!
Awesome! As so often happens I couldn’t tell you how I got there.
It’s on Youtube, have you tried asking the poster?
There is no site anymore that lists heavyweight recognized champions from the pre-
Jack Johnson era. These used to be listed in World Almanacs, 20 years ago, with details of challengers, locations, dates – but now all sites have been scrubbed of that.
When I was a toddler (early seventies) there was an upbeat ditty on the radio, going ‘London, (dee dee dee dee dum, tadada, dadada dum, London, dee dee dee dee dum)…’ I must have heard it several times to have it stick in my head. However, I have never been able to discover what the song was. Tried Shazam and a few similar services. The text of course is not very helpful: there are many songs from that era with the word London. The ones I checked didn’t match my memory.
One thing I’ve thought about is that it wasn’t a pop song but rather a commercial.
Yes it can be very difficult to track down ad jingles, if that’s what it turns out to be.
If you mean “I like to eat apples and bananas,” that’s not the one. Thanks though.
They are all available in Wikipedia starting with John L. Sullivan himself. Their records are listed in individual articles: List of world heavyweight boxing champions - Wikipedia
They all were lost when the U.S.S. Titanic sank.
@lobotomyboy63 incredible, I never really figured I’d hear that thing again! You got some serious Google-fu there!
You’d think the unexpected success of @Lobotomyboy finding the Crying Trees song would satiate me, but no…
Here’s what the song about the colt sounds like, in case that helps:
I’m drawing a blank. Part reminds me of “Jesus Loves Me.” As you may know, in the past many times composers would set new words to old melodies…are you hearing “This Old Man” or the Barney Song? Londonderry Air (an all time favorite) also became Danny Boy, for that matter.
P.A. Grainger collected folk songs—sometimes from a person on his deathbed, according to my high school band director. I get that a song is important.
Random moment of childhood songs: Señor Don Gato Lyrics - YouTube
PS Here’s the one that took me a long time to find. I probably found others covering it, but I wanted this one. So don’t give up!
How about this?
That’s it! Mixie Pixie, not Pixie Dixie. Thanks!!
De nada. But in that light — of me finding it only by figuring you were off by a detail — let me toss in a possibility about the orphanage from that other post: this mentions a Kentucky orphanage, an “Odd Fellows Orphans Home”, now demolished, complete with an address and a couple of images.