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It is my favorite kind of blog. Personal enough that you can glean the interests and obsessions of the blogger, but not so personal that you feel like your eavesdropping through someone’s kitchen window. It stakes a clear “domain” — retro lifestyle — but wanders freely, loping this way and that across the patch of land within that chunk of intellectual terrain. My highest compliment is that RetroModGirl manages to find idiosyncratic approaches to very accessible topics, in ways that gives retro “O.G.s” and retro nOObs something to savor. Other retro-themed blogs chat about MAD MEN and 50’s stoves and the like, but do other blogs show you the mansion that Magic Chef built?
RetroModGirl gets my “Green Monster” award for a blog that stirs feelings I say are admiration, is really just jealousy."
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You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum and bakelite and glass
Like a locomotive they were streamlined
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine
You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the Piggly Wiggly
In the country out of Waynsboro
Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off the six niner
Diner my shiny shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny shiny love
The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top
The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so
Side of fries a dollar
Or the haddock plate two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode
Chorus
Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate
Diner my shiny shiny love.
15 comments:
I remember it too! Do you remember Scarecrow and Mrs. King? LOVED that show!
Yes, I do remember that show! Didn't it star the same actress who played Sabrina on Charlie's Angels?
Do you remember the episode when Farrah single-handedly apprehended the bad guys speeding in their muscle car with only her skateboard! That's realism you just don't see anymore.
True, William, true.
My favorite Farrah-ism is when she used to whisper "Freeze" while holding out her gun in an oh so feminine way!
I remember the show too! in mexico they used to show it at 8 pm, so I remember I used to watched before going to bed, well, I didn't watched it everyday but I used to.Remember my older cousins using their hair like Farrah! =)
Heh Heh.. I acted like I didn't dig this show when my cousin "who's a girl" wanted to watch it. I loved the action.. the music.. the suspense.. and I gueeeeeeeess the girls. LOL!
Great blog! I'm a new follower : )
Please check out my blog as well when you get a chance.
www.the-blisslist.blogspot.com
OMG! i LOVED that show! my friends and i used to "play" charlie's angels, except it was always fight to see who would end up as sabrina- we all wanted to be farrah! too funny!
I remember it too! My brother had that infamous Farrah poster on his wall for years!
I love this blog! I am so glad I found you! You are fabulous.
When I was in grade school, I used to play "Charlie's Angels" with my 2 best friends on the playground, and I ALWAYS had to be Sabrina!
FYI--I just started a Retro Weight Watchers Blogging Project.... Reliving the 1972 program and recreating all of those old horrible recipes. It's a blast. hope you'll check me out!
http://theskinnyjeansproject.blogspot.com/
I loveeed them!! Such a pity Farrah passed away the same day as Michael Jackson, so she didn't receive enough homage...
Thanks for posting -- this was a wonderful guilty pleasure of a show. And its theme song -- still one of the best! I was in a nightclub on the French Riviera some years back and the best club remix of the theme song came on -- brilliant stuff.
Have a great weekend,
Michael
Of course, I remember the show. I had Farrah's hairstyle. It never looked as good as hers, tho. Love your site. Come visit me, as I have the vintage phone on an older post you might like.
Robin
I remember my mother talking about this show and how much she looovveedd it.
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I watched this show, I and had the Farrah poster on the back of my bedroom door along with pictures of the other angles, sort of a Charlie's Angels Shrine, LOL.
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