Thirty years ago! 1977- Star Wars, Disco, BillyBeer, Walt Disney's the Rescuers, Bakshi's Wizards, Saturday Night Fever, Son of Sam, Elvis Presley died, the Great East Coast Blackout,
and the musical Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure was released.



Retrojunk.com has the original movie trailor for your delight and edification.
ASIFA/Hollywood is planning to have a reunion of the crew of Raggedy Ann to celebrate the anniversary. It will be at the American Film Institute in Hollywood on November 17th. A simultaneous reunion will happen in New York City. A lot of wonderful people worked on this film, many getting their first start. If you are a Raggedy vet out there in the Blogosphere and I have not yet reached you, you are welcome to e-mail me and I'll send you details.

Thirty years..? Real for sure Strange.....

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Birthdays: Otto Mesmer the creator of Felix the Cat, Myron Grim Natwick the creator of Betty Boop, Hal Foster the creator of Prince Valiant, Alex Raymond the creator of Flash Gordon, Kathie Lee Gifford,jazz great Bill Evans, Leslie Ann Warren, Angela Bassett, Julie Numar, Robert Culp, James Cameron, Bruce Beresford,Steve Carell, Madonna-real name Madonna-Louise Ciccone from Bay City Michigan is 49

Today is the Feast of St. Roch, who had a heavenly inspired dog to lick his sores and cure him of the Black Plague.

1877- BIRTHDAY OF THE WORD-"HELLO". In a letter dated today Thomas Edison wrote to the first president of AT&T about how people should initiate conversation on the new telephone machine. A genteel Victorian would think it impolite to speak until spoken to. Edison explained that the results of sonic tests proved the old English fox hunting call "Halloo!" was most audible over great distances. Alexander Graham Bell, an old navy man, always thought the right way to start a phone conversation was to say "AHOY!", but hello won out. It was the only English word Sioux Chief Sitting Bull ever learned. He loved to grab your hand and pump it vigorously while saying:" HELLO, HELLO!"

1896- Four miners find gold in Bonanza Creek in the Klondike. The Yukon Gold Rush begins.

1938- Blues legend Robert Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband in Three Forks Mississippi.

1942- Happy Birthday Mighty Mouse. Terrytoon's short: "The Mouse of Tomorrow".

1954- First issue of Sports Illustrated.

1965- The AFL, American Football League offered it’s first expansion franchise to a new team called the Miami Dolphins. The AFL merged with the NFL in the 80s.

1969- “ Hey Man, we’re gonna serve breakfast in bed for 500,000” So was hippy Wavy Gravy’s announcement on the second day of the Woodstock Rock Concert. He said this was the day Americans learned to eat Granola. It was ladled out en masse in paper cups and has been a diet staple ever since.

1976- Apple Computers was founded by two college dropouts- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, in a California garage.

1977- E-DAY in Memphis. 42 year old Elvis Presley, donuts and Pizza Hut box in hand died sitting on the toilet. That is, if you choose to believe he really died...?

1987- The Harmonic Convergence- Another one of these celestial events that the mainstream media trumpeted as the end of everything. All nine planets of our solar system were in perfect alignment and the subsequent gravitational forces were supposed to knock the Earth into the Sun or something or other that would send us to Hell in a Handbasket. So what happened? Bupkis.

1991- The original Shamu the Whale died of respiratory failure at age 16.