The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for May 8, 2023
Feature:
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Extra:
Golden Gate International Exposition – Treasure Island Museum Oral Story
Participants:
Angel Santiago Saltamontes
Duane
Fredsmom
Godwinshelley
Hawaii_Steve
HonoluLou
hounder
Matt
Mike n Rachel in DC
Paul M
Phil
Rush
05-08 18:28
HonoluLou:
“Do not challenge supernatural, unless armed with sword of truth!”
05-08 18:28
Rush:
Good evening, Lou!
05-08 18:29
HonoluLou:
Good evening, Rush. How are you?
05-08 18:29
Rush:
Good quote!
Doing well, and you?
05-08 18:29
Duane:
Hello Rush and Lou
05-08 18:29
HonoluLou:
HaHa, appropriate. Doing great. Had our first Public GiG with the band in a few years.
05-08 18:29
Rush:
Duane!
05-08 18:29
HonoluLou:
Hi Duane.
05-08 18:29
Rush:
WELCOME!
05-08 18:30
Rush:
And, I see Matt is here, too.
05-08 18:30
Matt:
Hello Rush, Duane and Louuuu!
05-08 18:30
Rush:
Good evening, Matt!
05-08 18:30
Duane:
Hello Matt
05-08 18:31
HonoluLou:
Matt how are you? Say, do you have a wordpress site “People I’ve known, or something like that?”
05-08 18:31
Duane:
My second Charlie Chan film I saw
05-08 18:31
Matt:
Me? lol, no!
05-08 18:31
Rush:
“Treasure Island”?
05-08 18:31
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Good evening all!
05-08 18:31
Matt:
I’m barley capable of navigating this chat room, lol
05-08 18:31
Rush:
That was a great “second”!
05-08 18:32
Matt:
Hello M & R!
05-08 18:32
Rush:
Matt: 
05-08 18:32
Duane:
Hello Mike n Rachel
05-08 18:32
Rush:
Mike and Rachel!
05-08 18:32
HonoluLou:
LoL, OK, I’m probably thinking of someone else. TXS
MnR, greetings.
05-08 18:32
Rush:
Good evening to both of you!
05-08 18:33
Rush:
We should start our extra in about 7 minutes.
it runs about 21 minutes.
05-08 18:33
HonoluLou:
Wowzer, 21 minutes a record, no?
05-08 18:33
Matt:
Sounds good and looks interesting
05-08 18:34
Rush:
Perhaps.
Unless we count the radio dramas, i suppose.
Some of those were on the longer side.
05-08 18:34
HonoluLou:
Ah, yes. I forgot those.
Rush, howz that book coming along? Any good?
05-08 18:34
Rush:
Maybe we can start sharing those again at some point.
05-08 18:35
Rush:
I am edging through it. i read before bedtime, and, depending on my scale of tiredness, I might get only a page or two done!
BUT, i think that it is a pretty good story, and it seems to follow the “tradition” well.
05-08 18:36
HonoluLou:
Ha, then I’m not the only one. Sounds promising, fingers and toes crossed it doesn’t have any surprises.
05-08 18:37
Rush:
Yes.
I am also working on the Daily Comics pages.
05-08 18:38
Rush:
So far I am posting the “facsimiles” of which there will be many as the daily comics probably had over a thousand examples.
I have a LOT of scanning of originals to do as well.
05-08 18:39
Rush:
I have obtained more lately via eBay.
Okay! Are we ready to share the extra?
05-08 18:39
Matt:
Sounds like a lot of work!
05-08 18:39
Rush:
Yes!
05-08 18:39
Matt:
Yep!
05-08 18:39
Rush:
LOTS!!!
05-08 18:39
HonoluLou:
I see that. I can’t believe you are downloading the entire books onto the site. “Life would be a dreary waste, if there was no thing called loyalty.” (The Chinese Parrot, Chapter 2)
05-08 18:40
Rush:
Okay… here is the link…
Ready?
05-08 18:40
Matt:
Ready!
05-08 18:40
Rush:
15 seconds…
10…
05-08 18:40
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Bring on Dr. Zodiac!
05-08 18:40
HonoluLou:
Set!
05-08 18:40
Rush:
5….
GO!!!
05-08 18:40
Rush:
I think you will enjoy this. VERY informative.
05-08 18:42
Mike n Rachel in DC:
“use fiber or cactus needle?”
05-08 18:42
HonoluLou:
Nice music.
05-08 18:42
Rush:
Yes, it is.
05-08 18:43
Rush:
We will see the Bay Bridge in the background as Chan arrives.
Chan and Jimmy took the Clipper.
05-08 18:43
HonoluLou:
Good ole Pan Am
05-08 18:45
HonoluLou:
I think I’ve seen this and I believe there are some “risque” features, if not mistaken.
05-08 18:45
Rush:
$50 million…a cool BILLION today.
05-08 18:46
Rush:
Recognize that music?
“CC at the Race Track” music.
05-08 18:46
HonoluLou:
Wow! Nice catch Rush
05-08 18:47
Rush:
Conestoga Wagon” “Prairie Schooner”
05-08 18:47
Matt:
Hello Hounder!
05-08 18:48
Mike n Rachel in DC:
At the 1912 World’s Fair in NY there were over 1,000 band concerts…bands were still pretty big in the 30s…
05-08 18:48
HonoluLou:
hello Hounder
05-08 18:48
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Hey hounder!
05-08 18:48
HonoluLou:
MnR, that’s pretty awesome!
05-08 18:50
hounder:
hi everyone.
05-08 18:51
Rush:
The nude shows were seemingly a deal in those days! There was an exposition in San Diego’s Balboa Park in 1935, and there was a nudist show there, too!
Hello, HOUNDER!
05-08 18:51
Matt:
wb Duane!
05-08 18:51
Rush:
We are watching the lengthy extra.
The link is above.
05-08 18:51
Duane:
Hello Hounder
05-08 18:51
Rush:
We are at about the ten minute mark.
05-08 18:52
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Need a remake of Chan @ Treasure Island with the topless donkey riders…
05-08 18:52
HonoluLou:
MnR, they could do it with male donkey riders…haha.
05-08 18:52
Rush:
It is about the Treasure Island World’s Fair.
05-08 18:52
Matt:
Giddy Up, Mike!
05-08 18:53
Mike n Rachel in DC:
05-08 18:54
Rush:
Nice color footage.
05-08 18:54
Rush:
This it what Jimmy thought was the Chinese Pagoda.
The Tower of the Sun.
05-08 18:55
HonoluLou:
Ah, yes.
05-08 18:56
Rush:
NICE!
05-08 18:57
Rush:
There was a “20th Century-Fox Day” at Treasure Island, and, Sidney Toler was there!
05-08 18:57
HonoluLou:
Cool, I always liked Sidney, best.
05-08 18:58
Matt:
Hello Paul!
05-08 18:58
HonoluLou:
Evening Paul
05-08 18:58
Duane:
Hello Paul
05-08 18:58
Paul M:
hiya
05-08 18:58
Rush:
Hello, PAUL!
WELCOME!!!
05-08 18:58
hounder:
hi paul
05-08 18:58
HonoluLou:
Awesome!
05-08 18:59
Rush:
We have a few minutes left on our extra.
05-08 19:00
Rush:
“Blueberry Hill”
05-08 19:01
Rush:
And…there we have it!
05-08 19:01
Mike n Rachel in DC:
very interesting, Rush!
05-08 19:01
Matt:
Very nice, thnx Rush
05-08 19:02
Rush:
The West Coast World’s fair at Treasure Island.
05-08 19:02
Matt:
What is on Treasure Island now?
05-08 19:02
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Jimmy should have watched this before he arrived…would have known which building was which
05-08 19:02
Rush:
There are some remains of the fair.
Some buildings have survived due to their usefulness.
05-08 19:02
Duane:
The local channel that showed the Charlie Chan movies when I was a Teenager showed the Sidney Toler films twice in a row before showing Warner Oland films.they never showed The Roland Winters ones
05-08 19:03
Matt:
Accessible to the public?
05-08 19:03
HonoluLou:
Here Here! I must now bid you all farewell. Got another engagement. Enjoy tonight’s film.
05-08 19:03
Matt:
Take care Lou!
05-08 19:03
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Great to see you Lou!
05-08 19:03
Rush:
I saw the Clipper docks while I was there, and they are right about where we see Chan arriving tand giving the sad news.
05-08 19:03
Duane:
Goodnight Lou
05-08 19:03
hounder:
bye hl
05-08 19:04
Rush:
Good night, Lou!
TYSM!
05-08 19:04
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Apparently there are high levels of radiation on Treasure Island now — from its days as a naval base
05-08 19:04
Rush:
Have a good evening!
Yes, Mike?
05-08 19:04
hounder:
interesting m n r
05-08 19:04
Rush:
HM.
05-08 19:04
Matt:
Interesting Mike
05-08 19:04
Rush:
That explains my glowing in the dark!
05-08 19:04
hounder:
wonder what the levels are/
05-08 19:05
Mike n Rachel in DC:
“By December 2010, Navy contractors had removed 16,000 cubic yards (12,000 m3) of contaminated dirt from the site, “some with radiation levels 400 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s human exposure limits for topsoil.”
05-08 19:05
hounder:
ROTFL. that’s an evil lie rush. worked a plant for 25 years and i don’t glow enough to read by. LOL
05-08 19:05
Matt:
I’d be curious to hear if service members were ill/died from such an exposure?
05-08 19:06
Mike n Rachel in DC:
It would depend on how long they were exposed I think
05-08 19:06
Matt:
Hello GS!
05-08 19:07
Godwinshelley:
Hello all
05-08 19:07
Rush:
WELCOME, GS!
05-08 19:07
Duane:
Hello GS
05-08 19:07
Godwinshelley:
I’m back from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
05-08 19:07
Mike n Rachel in DC:
baa, GS
05-08 19:07
Rush:
8 minutes till show time.
05-08 19:07
Matt:
Cued here!
05-08 19:07
Paul M:
hi GS
05-08 19:07
Rush:
yes, GS?
05-08 19:08
Godwinshelley:
Yes – it was so crowded – looked like a state fair with so many people
05-08 19:08
Duane:
This is my favorite Charlie Chan movie
05-08 19:08
Rush:
Tonigfht, of course, we have “Charlie Chan at Treasure Island”
05-08 19:08
hounder:
if the epa limit is 15 mrem/year, then 400x would be less than 2 rem per year. there are places where naturally occuring is greater than that.
hi gs
05-08 19:08
Rush:
Yes, Duane!
The favorite of MANY!
05-08 19:08
Fredsmom:
Good evening to all!
05-08 19:08
Matt:
Hello FM!
05-08 19:08
Godwinshelley:
Paul – I sent you a link to the Harmonie Kino in Frankfurt – I like to read about movies there to check my german
05-08 19:08
Matt:
LONG time!
05-08 19:08
hounder:
hi fm
05-08 19:09
Rush:
It is usually considered to be the best film of the Chan series.
05-08 19:09
Duane:
Hello FM
05-08 19:09
hounder:
wb fm.
05-08 19:09
Rush:
FM!
05-08 19:09
Fredsmom:
Missed yall!
05-08 19:09
Rush:
Good evening to you!
05-08 19:09
Matt:
You too!
05-08 19:09
Rush:
Missed you as well!
Welcome back!
05-08 19:09
Fredsmom:
One of the great films tonite!
TY!
05-08 19:10
Rush:
YES!!!
6 minutes…
05-08 19:10
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Hello FM
05-08 19:10
Rush:
Please ready your copies of our movie…
05-08 19:10
Fredsmom:
Hello to all
05-08 19:10
Rush:
Pausing at the Opening Title…
05-08 19:10
Mike n Rachel in DC:
more star power in the cast w Romero
05-08 19:10
Rush:
True!
05-08 19:11
Rush:
27 years later, he would play the Joker on the Batman TV show!
05-08 19:11
Phil:
Ok, I’m here now!:-)
05-08 19:12
Rush:
A huge difference from tonight’s character!
05-08 19:12
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Aloha Phil
05-08 19:12
Godwinshelley:
Back – had to reboot
05-08 19:12
Duane:
Hello Phil
05-08 19:12
Rush:
yes, Phil!
05-08 19:12
Matt:
Hello Phil!
05-08 19:12
Rush:
You made it!
3 minutes….
05-08 19:12
Phil:
Aloha M&R. Hi Duane and Rush and the always ready…MATT!
05-08 19:12
Rush:
Everyone ready?
05-08 19:13
Fredsmom:
yes!
05-08 19:13
Mike n Rachel in DC:
I was born ready… lol
05-08 19:13
Rush:
Phil:
05-08 19:13
Duane:
I am Ready
05-08 19:13
Rush:
Mike:
05-08 19:13
Phil:
When I was about to get married, my brother-in-law asked me if I was ready. My response? Yeah, ready to HURL!
05-08 19:14
Rush:
2 minutes…
05-08 19:14
Fredsmom:
05-08 19:14
Mike n Rachel in DC:
lol @ Phil
05-08 19:14
Rush:
Phil:
05-08 19:14
Phil:
Ah it’s been the best years of her life…
05-08 19:14
Godwinshelley:
I’m cued here
05-08 19:14
Rush:
90 seconds…
75 seconds…
05-08 19:15
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Anxiously anticipating the gong graphic….
05-08 19:15
Rush:
60 seconds…
Yes to the gong!
50 seconds…
40 seconds…
05-08 19:15
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Say yes to the dress…lookin’ at you, Eve Cairo
05-08 19:15
Matt:
This ones for M & R!
05-08 19:15
Rush:
30 seconds…
25…
20…
05-08 19:15
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Rachel scurries over
05-08 19:16
Rush:
15…
10…
5…
05-08 19:16
Phil:
HIT ME MATT!
05-08 19:16
Rush:
GO!!!
05-08 19:16
Matt:
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05-08 19:16
Rush:
Title and music….
05-08 19:16
Fredsmom:
haha
05-08 19:16
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Woooooo Hooooooo
05-08 19:16
Rush:
Credits….
05-08 19:16
Phil:
Wow, man I felt that one.
05-08 19:16
Rush:
“San Francisco…”
05-08 19:16
Mike n Rachel in DC:
thumbs up from Rachel
05-08 19:17
Rush:
The Cliiper in a storm….
Jimmy is not doing so well….
05-08 19:17
Phil:
I know exactly how Jimmy feels. Even when everything’s good I’m white knuckled.
05-08 19:17
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Nice stable flight in that storm…Southwest Airlines needs to buy some of those planes
05-08 19:17
Rush:
Yes, Phil.
I have been there.
05-08 19:17
hounder:
time check please?
05-08 19:17
Phil:
Hey, that IS Lionel Atwill.
05-08 19:18
Rush:
Yes!
05-08 19:18
Phil:
Rush, I’m there everytime I fly.
Time is 235
05-08 19:19
Phil:
300
Hi Hounder.
05-08 19:19
Rush:
13…one more to go…
05-08 19:19
Phil:
330
05-08 19:19
hounder:
thanks. mom called
05-08 19:20
Rush:
The book CC is reading.
05-08 19:20
Phil:
How do you do it Rush?!
05-08 19:21
Rush:
Okay, Hounder.
Return as you are able.
Jimmy is incorrect.
05-08 19:21
Matt:
Yep
05-08 19:21
Mike n Rachel in DC:
as usual, Rush 
05-08 19:21
Rush:
yes!
05-08 19:21
Mike n Rachel in DC:
thud
05-08 19:22
Phil:
Cue the can
05-08 19:22
Rush:
Paul Essex is…
Dead…
05-08 19:22
Matt:
05-08 19:22
Mike n Rachel in DC:
We now have an ex-Essex
05-08 19:22
Rush:
TYSM…Matt..
05-08 19:22
Phil:
Very Feliniesque Matt.
05-08 19:22
Rush:
05-08 19:22
Mike n Rachel in DC:
this may be a new high point, Matt
05-08 19:22
Rush:
There’s the Bay Bridge.
05-08 19:23
Matt:
Reminded me of John Cleese
05-08 19:23
Godwinshelley:
Inspecting luggage because Hawaii wasn’t a state?
05-08 19:23
Rush:
We see it unfinished as Chan arrives in SF in “CC’s Secret.”
05-08 19:23
Phil:
Hey your old man’s a goner.
05-08 19:23
Rush:
This is where the plane dack was.
05-08 19:24
Rush:
dock
This would be tough news to share.
05-08 19:24
Phil:
That…would be Paul
05-08 19:24
hounder:
it would be.
05-08 19:24
Phil:
Not with enough medication Rush.
05-08 19:24
Rush:
I was on a flight from Honolulu where a man passed away during the flight.
05-08 19:25
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Oh gosh, Rush. That must have been very strange.
05-08 19:25
Rush:
Yes.
05-08 19:25
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Heart attack or something like that?
05-08 19:25
Fredsmom:
how tragic Rush
05-08 19:25
Rush:
And of course, he had family awaiting his arrival.
Very sad.
05-08 19:25
Matt:
CC abducted!
05-08 19:26
Rush:
He had some family with him on the plane as well.
Yes, Matt.
And Chan sees through their guises!
05-08 19:26
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Bet he could tell from their shoes
05-08 19:26
Rush:
Yes, that was the giveaway!
05-08 19:28
Rush:
05-08 19:28
Phil:
“Visiting” your ancestors is a long way from “hanging around” with your ancestors
05-08 19:29
Rush:
Yes. A LOOOOONNNNGGG visit!
05-08 19:29
Phil:
Unknown quickly forgotten extra there.
05-08 19:30
Rush:
Yes.
05-08 19:30
Phil:
Never to be seen again.
05-08 19:30
Matt:
<meow>
05-08 19:30
Phil:
The cab driver is the guy faking the injury at the beginning of Reno
05-08 19:31
Rush:
Cabby missed his grab of the fare!
AH!
Good catch, Phil!
05-08 19:32
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Love that line: “Dr. Zodiac is a native of the universe.”
05-08 19:32
Matt:
Hello A & F!
05-08 19:32
Angel Santiago Saltamontes:
Hello awl!
05-08 19:32
Rush:
WELCOME, Angel…and Foxx…!
05-08 19:32
Phil:
Hi Angel
05-08 19:32
Rush:
“The Eye of Allah Matta…”
05-08 19:32
Phil:
And Foxx
05-08 19:32
Duane:
Hello A andF
05-08 19:33
Fredsmom:
Hi A and F!!!!
05-08 19:33
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Welcome to Angel and the illustrious Foxx
05-08 19:33
Angel Santiago Saltamontes:
Thank you! And hello Dr.Zodiac, you doyty ratt!
FM!! Mwah!!
05-08 19:34
Rush:
We are at the “seance” scene.
05-08 19:34
Phil:
Why a tambourine? Why not a snare drum?
05-08 19:34
Hawaii_Steve:
Aloha from the Land of Chan. How are all the Channetts tonight?
05-08 19:34
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Hello Steve!
05-08 19:34
Paul M:
needs more cowbell
05-08 19:34
Rush:
Or perhaps a tuba?
05-08 19:35
Phil:
Must be difficult to breath with saran wrap over your face.
05-08 19:35
Mike n Rachel in DC:
always, Paul
05-08 19:35
Duane:
Hello Steve
05-08 19:35
Phil:
Now cowbell..that’s an idea!
05-08 19:35
Rush:
Yes, Phil!
05-08 19:35
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Kay Linnaker in Saran Wrap for this film
05-08 19:36
Phil:
Does she get billing on the credits?
05-08 19:36
Rush:
No.
05-08 19:36
Hawaii_Steve:
So sorry that I’m late. Can you rewind the tape and start it again? LOL !!!
05-08 19:36
Rush:
Ah! WELCOME, Steve!!!!
05-08 19:36
Phil:
No but we can tell you what time it is.
05-08 19:36
Rush:
Great to see your return!
05-08 19:36
Matt:
Alohaaaaaaaa, Steve!
05-08 19:37
Rush:
21:10
21:20
05-08 19:37
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Charlie keeps everyone cool.
05-08 19:37
Phil:
Howdy Hawaii
05-08 19:37
Hawaii_Steve:
I was shanghai-ed to Kailua.
05-08 19:37
Angel Santiago Saltamontes:
Can’t participate tonight, as we are guests already in the garage where i used to work, prepping the Foxxmobile (’03 Volvo V70) for the Boston-to-NC run. Just a hello, and hope CC gets that Zodiac. What a rotter! Damn!
05-08 19:37
Rush:
$400 today.
05-08 19:37
Angel Santiago Saltamontes:
05-08 19:38
Hawaii_Steve:
Aloha and howdy you’al.
05-08 19:38
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Lookin’ good, Angel.
05-08 19:38
Fredsmom:
Have fun Angel!
05-08 19:38
Rush:
A beautiful place to experience a Shanghai, Steve!
05-08 19:38
Matt:
Take care A & F
05-08 19:38
Rush:
live shots, Angel?
05-08 19:38
Duane:
Goodnight A andF
05-08 19:39
Rush:
Jimmy’s “disguise.”
05-08 19:39
Matt:
lol Jimmy
05-08 19:39
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Mai Tai?
05-08 19:39
Angel Santiago Saltamontes:
Yup! Me in focus, foto by Foxx (as all my zelfies). Much love to all!
05-08 19:39
Rush:
05-08 19:39
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Ciao!
05-08 19:39
Rush:
Mai Tai
05-08 19:40
Matt:
Yummy!
05-08 19:40
hounder:
little mouse lucky his clothes do not fit elephant
05-08 19:40
Hawaii_Steve:
05-08 19:40
Fredsmom:
wow
05-08 19:40
Matt:
Dapper!
05-08 19:40
Rush:
There you go, Steve!
05-08 19:40
Hawaii_Steve:
Move over Chan, Hawaii_Steve is on the case.
05-08 19:40
Rush:
05-08 19:40
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Ah, Steve. Feeling the weather!
05-08 19:40
Rush:
As good as solved!
05-08 19:40
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Nice gumshoe look!
05-08 19:41
Hawaii_Steve:
Mahalo.
That’s Hawaiian for Thank you.
05-08 19:41
Phil:
I’d have never recognized you.
05-08 19:42
Mike n Rachel in DC:
It’s also close to the Ukrainian form of Michael, Steve.
05-08 19:42
Rush:
05-08 19:42
Rush:
05-08 19:43
Phil:
Eve’s got the whole “smoky eye” thing going on.
05-08 19:43
Hawaii_Steve:
Nice stills. From tonights movie?
05-08 19:43
Rush:
Yes.
From our Gallery.
05-08 19:43
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Meow…
05-08 19:44
Rush:
Yes.
05-08 19:44
Hawaii_Steve:
When I worked in Hollywood, I got the chance to meet and work with Cesar Romero. He autographed a still of the Joker for me.
05-08 19:44
Rush:
Not kind, that’s for sure!
05-08 19:44
Fredsmom:
How cool HS
05-08 19:44
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Now THAT is a memory, HS!
05-08 19:44
Rush:
Yes, steve? That’s GREAT!
05-08 19:45
hounder:
nice hs
05-08 19:45
Hawaii_Steve:
Hey bartender, Mai Tais all around for the family !!!
05-08 19:45
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Tapewoim
05-08 19:46
Rush:
TYSM, Steve. From the Becky and Virginia Beverage Cart!
Yes, Mike!
Elmer.
05-08 19:46
Mike n Rachel in DC:
That guy should have taken an interest in baseball…could have started moneyball in 1940
05-08 19:47
Rush:
That was actually a nice trick there!
I played it frame-by-frame, and could still not see how it was done!
05-08 19:47
Mike n Rachel in DC:
tick tick tick tick tick ZZZZZ
05-08 19:47
Matt:
Toots!
05-08 19:48
Rush:
And…Bopsy…
05-08 19:48
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Dude, the card is sideway
sideways
05-08 19:49
Rush:
Yes, it was.
05-08 19:49
Matt:
I’m a believer!
05-08 19:49
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Me too, but the ticking is getting annoying
05-08 19:49
Rush:
Eve Cairo is perhaps the only “real” psychic seen in the series…
05-08 19:50
Matt:
The tocking gets to me Mike
05-08 19:50
Rush:
Possible other: “Madame Saturnia”
05-08 19:50
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Murder..ok, as long as the darn ticking stops
05-08 19:50
Rush:
05-08 19:50
Matt:
<meow>
05-08 19:51
Rush:
Nice fog atmosphere….
“Do not need brass band to commit simple burglary.”
05-08 19:51
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Many bands available at the fair, Charlie
05-08 19:51
Paul M:
Dario Argento did a similar scene with a psychic in DEEP RED
05-08 19:52
Rush:
05-08 19:52
Mike n Rachel in DC:
The ticking is annoying but it’s a great, simple way to add suspense and drama
05-08 19:52
Matt:
CC learning the “ropes”
05-08 19:52
Rush:
Yes.
05-08 19:53
Rush:
The Turk…
05-08 19:54
Hawaii_Steve:
05-08 19:54
hounder:
love it hs
05-08 19:54
Rush:
WOW!
05-08 19:54
Mike n Rachel in DC:
sweet HS!
05-08 19:54
Matt:
VERY cool Steve
05-08 19:54
Godwinshelley:
Nice
05-08 19:54
Rush:
Great autograph!
05-08 19:54
Duane:
That is great Steve
05-08 19:54
Fredsmom:
what a great momento
05-08 19:54
Hawaii_Steve:
From Uncle Steve’s Movie Archives, The Joker !!!
05-08 19:55
Rush:
NICE!
05-08 19:55
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Toler does a good Zodiac voice
05-08 19:55
Hawaii_Steve:
Thank you so much.
05-08 19:55
Rush:
Yes, Mike, he does!
05-08 19:55
Rush:
Thank you for sharing it with us, Steve!
Where did you meet him, Steve?
On a set?
05-08 19:56
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Yes, thanks Steve…that’s a fun momento
05-08 19:56
hounder:
charlie learmed bad b & e habits from light fingered son.
05-08 19:56
Duane:
I like it that he would not shave for that role
05-08 19:56
Rush:
True, Hounder!
05-08 19:56
Hawaii_Steve:
On the day that I met Romero, we were at the Fox Television Center in Hollywood. Cesar was a guest on a local L.A. talk show and I was working as an extra on Mama’s Family. We took a break and I met him in the hallway between the studios.
05-08 19:57
Rush:
Possibly influenced by brother Lee!
05-08 19:57
Fredsmom:
befriend donkey expect to gey kicked
05-08 19:57
Rush:
05-08 19:57
hounder:
nice memory hs
05-08 19:57
Godwinshelley:
HS I watch Mama’s Family – which episode are you on?
05-08 19:58
Rush:
Great memory moment, Steve!!!
05-08 19:59
Rush:
Note that Chan may not have completely closed the vault door in a moment.
05-08 20:00
Hawaii_Steve:
Episode: “Mama With the Golden Arm”
05-08 20:00
Mike n Rachel in DC:
need to get O2 for the fire, but not burn down the house…tricky calculation
05-08 20:00
Rush:
If he left it open just a little, the fire would continue to burn.
True, Mike!
05-08 20:00
Godwinshelley:
OKj – thanks Steve
05-08 20:01
Hawaii_Steve:
The guest star was Kathleen Freeman, Jerry Lewis’s co-star.
05-08 20:01
Rush:
But I saw that the walls of the vault were made of metal.
05-08 20:01
Mike n Rachel in DC:
fireproof safe no doubt!
05-08 20:01
Rush:
Still…very risky!
05-08 20:01
hounder:
if the vault was a sealed vault, closing the door would cut off o2 supply and smother fire. possibly before destroying secrets.
05-08 20:01
Rush:
yes, Mike!
True, Hounder, yes.
05-08 20:03
Mike n Rachel in DC:
In any case, Dr. Zodiac must have been pretty “burned” to see his papers destroyed.
05-08 20:04
Rush:
Absolutely!
YEARS of “work” gone up in smoke!
05-08 20:04
Fredsmom:
yep
05-08 20:04
Hawaii_Steve:
GS: Season 3, Episode 21: “Mama with the Golden Arm” (1987). A hundred years ago.
05-08 20:04
Rush:
pseudologia fantastica – An elaborate and often fantastic account of exploits that is false but that the teller believes to be true.
05-08 20:05
Phil:
I’ve had a few of those Rush
05-08 20:05
Godwinshelley:
Ha – and Season 3 episode 21 of Hogan’s Heros is my favorite one. Guess that’s my lucky episode
05-08 20:05
Rush:
It might be available at YouTube!
05-08 20:06
Godwinshelley:
I’ll set my DVR to look for it (if I can figure out how it does that)
05-08 20:07
Hawaii_Steve:
In my VHS collection, I have an off-air recording of the show. But I don’t have a DVD of the episode. In order to purchase the DVD, I have to buy the entire series. Big Time Cost !!!
05-08 20:07
hounder:
ouch hs
05-08 20:08
Hawaii_Steve:
Mama’s Family went on for years. First, on network, then in syndication.
05-08 20:08
Godwinshelley:
I think it airs on Comcast Xfinity this Friday
05-08 20:09
Hawaii_Steve:
BTW, did anybody see NBC’s celebration of Carol Burnett’s 90th birthday party? A week or two ago.
05-08 20:09
Rush:
Here’s where it would have been so fun to be an extra in the audience!
05-08 20:09
Godwinshelley:
5:01 on 163 LOGO channel – eastern standard time I think
05-08 20:09
Duane:
It started as a segment on Carol Burnett show
05-08 20:10
Rush:
Yes.
The famous “Sorry” game scene!
05-08 20:10
Godwinshelley:
Like the Honeymooners started on the Jackie Gleason show then transitioned
05-08 20:10
Duane:
I missed it
05-08 20:10
Hawaii_Steve:
How was the Burnett special? It was 2 hours long.
05-08 20:10
Rush:
True!
05-08 20:11
Rush:
Dr. Zodiac…???
05-08 20:11
hounder:
i can’t tell you hs. i remembered it was on an hour after it was over. 
05-08 20:12
Rush:
Gerold Mohr was the voice of Zodiac.
Gerald
05-08 20:12
Godwinshelley:
The radio actor
05-08 20:13
Rush:
Yes.
05-08 20:13
Phil:
Cue the can
05-08 20:13
Rush:
The Turk!!!
05-08 20:13
Hawaii_Steve:
Recently, I saw an interview with Burnett talking about Mama’s Family. The sketch was written as a comedy with heavy accents. Carol requested that they do it straight. No accents. They used their real voice. It became a serious drama within a comedy program.
05-08 20:13
Matt:
05-08 20:14
Rush:
TYSM…Matt…
Yes, Steve!
05-08 20:14
Hawaii_Steve:
And the rest is TV history.
05-08 20:15
Rush:
Indeed!
05-08 20:16
Rush:
05-08 20:16
Fredsmom:
cool still
05-08 20:17
Rush:
Chan with eve…and “Eve.”
05-08 20:17
Phil:
Hey! That’s NOT Lionel Atwill!
05-08 20:17
Rush:
Douglas Drumbrille.
An easy error.
05-08 20:17
Phil:
It must be. I make it frequently.
05-08 20:18
Rush:
I have done that myself.
05-08 20:18
Matt:
Poor Jimmy
05-08 20:18
Mike n Rachel in DC:
no seatbelt!
05-08 20:18
Hawaii_Steve:
Sorry for going off Chan topic. You guys are my only Hollywood outlet. Nobody in Hawaii knows this stuff like you folks. I am grateful to know you guys. (smile)
05-08 20:18
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Back at ya, Steve. Lots of fascinating info for us!
05-08 20:19
Rush:
We are honored, Steve!
05-08 20:19
Fredsmom:
yes, so interesting Steve!
05-08 20:19
Matt:
Is there a doctor in the house?
05-08 20:19
Rush:
You have much to share on the subject!
05-08 20:19
Mike n Rachel in DC:
OK. They are DEFINITELY going to have to increase the pay for the orchestra. Bodies in the pit?
05-08 20:19
Godwinshelley:
We are lucky your episode actually runs this week.
Billy Goat HILL
05-08 20:19
Rush:
There WAS a Doctor in the house, Matt!
05-08 20:20
Hawaii_Steve:
Its around 33 years since I last worked in Hollywood. I took lots of photographs, kept all the scripts, and wrote in my journals every day.
05-08 20:20
Mike n Rachel in DC:
You should write a book!
05-08 20:20
Rush:
Great stuff, Steve!
05-08 20:20
Matt:
That’s so cool Steve
05-08 20:21
Rush:
Some REAL history there!
05-08 20:21
Godwinshelley:
You are a treasure trove of many things including Charlie Chan films
05-08 20:21
Rush:
yes!
05-08 20:21
Godwinshelley:
John Carradin3 on the wall?
05-08 20:21
Rush:
The John Carradine photo on the wall.
05-08 20:22
Godwinshelley:
So he finally made it into a Chan film after the Olympics cut
05-08 20:22
Rush:
05-08 20:22
Hawaii_Steve:
mike&rachel, thank you for the compliment. Many people have told me that I should write a book my experience of working in the industy.
05-08 20:22
Matt:
You should!
05-08 20:23
Rush:
That would be great, Steve!
05-08 20:23
Duane:
He never did a Charlie Chan film but he did do Mr. Moto
05-08 20:23
Hawaii_Steve:
Yes, that is John Carradine. Great shot.
05-08 20:23
Rush:
NOT the way to hold a rabbit!
05-08 20:23
Mike n Rachel in DC:
It would be a nice document of a really important time in the cultural life of the US, Steve. Hollywood of this era was so interwoven to the culture of the time…
05-08 20:25
Phil:
Her lipstick is perfect.
05-08 20:25
hounder:
a book would be wonderful hs
05-08 20:26
Mike n Rachel in DC:
interesting take on the final roundup of suspects
05-08 20:26
Hawaii_Steve:
I have to wait until everyone is dead before I can write my book.
05-08 20:27
Godwinshelley:
No, write it now, then wait to publish
05-08 20:27
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Well, you can write it and just keep it until the time is ripe.
05-08 20:27
Rush:
yes.
05-08 20:28
Matt:
Foiled!
05-08 20:28
Rush:
This was a unique way to catch the true killer!
05-08 20:28
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Dr. Zo-dini!
05-08 20:28
Rush:
05-08 20:28
Matt:
Nice shot Charlie
05-08 20:29
Rush:
Yes.
Poor Jimmy!
05-08 20:29
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Good thing that wand didn’t go off in his pocket!
05-08 20:29
Rush:
THE END
05-08 20:29
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Nice ending!
05-08 20:29
Godwinshelley:
Truly the end
05-08 20:29
Matt:
<yee-haw>
05-08 20:29
Fredsmom:
clapclapclapclap
05-08 20:29
Rush:
Closing credits and exit music….
(Applause…)
Well….
05-08 20:30
Mike n Rachel in DC:
One of…if not THE…best!
05-08 20:30
Rush:
This was a TRULY GREAT one!
05-08 20:30
Godwinshelley:
Nice
05-08 20:30
hounder:
thanks guys see you nxt week.
05-08 20:30
Duane:
Thank you Rush
05-08 20:30
Mike n Rachel in DC:
And paired with a top-notch extra…great evening, Rush!
05-08 20:30
Rush:
Fine champagne of the series!
05-08 20:30
Matt:
Great film and extra tonight
05-08 20:30
Duane:
Great film
05-08 20:30
Fredsmom:
Thank you all for a wonderful night! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
05-08 20:30
Rush:
Thank you ALL!
GREAT evening!
05-08 20:30
Rush:
Next week…
05-08 20:30
Matt:
Good night and have a great week!
05-08 20:30
Rush:
“Charlie Chan in City in darkness”
05-08 20:30
Duane:
Goodnight all see all next week
05-08 20:31
Mike n Rachel in DC:
Great to see you again, FM. Have a wonderful week, everyone. Have to run, but will see you in Paris!
05-08 20:31
Fredsmom:
Goodnight all!
05-08 20:31
Hawaii_Steve:
Good night all.
05-08 20:31
Phil:
Alooooha ALL!
05-08 20:31
Godwinshelley:
Have a safe week everyone
and good night
05-08 20:31
Rush:
Thank you again, EVERYONE!
05-08 20:32
Hawaii_Steve:
You too. Take care.
05-08 20:32
Rush:
Have a GREAT rest of your evening…
And have a wonderful week!
take care….
Be safe….
05-08 20:32
Rush:
Good night, all…
05-08 20:33
Hawaii_Steve:
Rush, I slightly different page to sign into tonight. What happened?
05-08 20:34
Rush:
I added the doors recently.
Made it a more interesting entrance!
05-08 20:35
Rush:
GREAT to have you be able to be with us again, Steve!
05-08 20:36
Hawaii_Steve:
A very rare Monday that I was off from work.
Not the door. The layout of the screen.
05-08 20:37
Hawaii_Steve:
I had to sign in as a guest tonight. The system did not recognize my log in name.
05-08 20:37
Rush:
Yes. At the New Year, we started using a new Chat Room.
Much more reliable than the previous one.
05-08 20:37
Hawaii_Steve:
I see.
05-08 20:38
Rush:
At “RumbleTalk.”
05-08 20:38
Hawaii_Steve:
Very clean. Nice to add images into the chat too.
05-08 20:38
Rush:
But, I prefer to enter as a “Guest.”
As a Guest, we can choose any name we want.
05-08 20:39
Rush:
When you register, you set-up one particular name.
You can see the difference with Angel.
That’s what it would be like.
05-08 20:39
Hawaii_Steve:
Yes, I saw the difference with Angle’s name.
05-08 20:40
Rush:
yes, the images are really easy to add in comparison to the old room!
05-08 20:40
Rush:
And, Louise found a way to add your own sounds, using your own sound files.
05-08 20:40
Hawaii_Steve:
Is is Rumble Chat or Rumble Talk?
05-08 20:40
Rush:
Rumble TALK…sorry!
05-08 20:41
Hawaii_Steve:
Okay. I just found it. Thank you.
05-08 20:41
Rush:
You can add your picture when you sign up,.
05-08 20:41
Hawaii_Steve:
I’m going to go and fill it out now. Thank you.
05-08 20:42
Rush:
Very good!
maybe you can convince me to do the same!
Well…I should be going.
05-08 20:42
Rush:
Getting late here.
05-08 20:42
Hawaii_Steve:
Have a great night. Talk with you soon. Aloha.
05-08 20:42
Rush:
Aloha, sir!
Good night…
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