Chelone, this thread has stirred up so many memories. To begin with...my first love of music came when I was a child. I spent hours listening to 78 RPM records on my mother's old wind-up Victrola. One favorite record was "Tales From the Vienna Woods". I still have that record !( I just dug out those old records, and found so many treasures). "Tales From the Vienna Woods" is by George Hall and His Arcadians. On the flip side is "The Skater's Waltz", another one of my favorites. I have at least 100 of those oldies, many are waltzes, fox trots,polkas, one steps, and at least one of marches ( "Lights out March" by the Arthur Pryor's Band,and "National Emblem March" by the United States Marine Band) and some are comedies , " No News" or " What Killed the Dog" by Nat M. Wills. I found " Where the River Shannon Flows" by Harry Macdonough; "Side By Side" by Aileen Stanley-Johnny Marvin; "My Blue Heaven" by Jimmie Davis,with Charles Mitchell And His Texans; "The Old Swiss Chalet In The Rockies",and " Little Mother Of The Hills" by Carson Robinson and his Buckeroos;"Lindbergh"(The Eagle of the U.S.A.)and "Lucky Lindy" by Vernon Dalhart;"Golden Slippers" and " My Blue Ridge Mountain Home" by Dalhart and Robinson;"Chiribiribin Waltz" and "West Lawn Polka" by Guido Gialdini; " Beautiful Ohio" and "Til We Meet Again" by Gennett Orchestra ( waltzes);Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" by Evan Williams ( a favorite);and "At Dawning" by Victor Herbert's Orchestra ( another favorite).These are among my favorites but there are many many more..... Of course your question was about albums, but back then, it was single songs/tunes... only one on each side of the record, and in some cases...blank on the flip side. These were my 1930-40s introduction to music. When I became a teen, and in my early 20s, my songs were on 45 R.P.M. records. The little ones with the big hole in the middle. I had ( and still have ) the player. I don't have the records. A foster daughter "borrowed' them, and they never were returned. Most of them were by western artists, mostly the "Hanks"...Hank Snow, Hank Thompson, Hank Williams, LOL . A lot were aso by popular artists; Patti Page and others. Okie-doakie. I think that is enough to bore you all to death. There is lots more, but I will spare you ...for now...:-)

To me it makes no difference whether they're made in Canada or here. I highly doubt that the new US made ovens will be any cheaper than the Canadian made ones, actually they will probably be more expensive. But some people seem to be making a big deal about how great Electrolux is for moving and creating US jobs, and how it makes up for all their moves to Mexico, I'm not saying it's BAD (though I'd probably feel differently if I were Canadian) just trying to point out that that it is nothing to feel warm and fuzzy about and they did it is to save on payroll just like all their other moves. This post was edited by hvtech42 on Tue, Sep 9, 14 at 9:45

I'm with Kevin, above. Stone slab countertops aren't going away, if for no other reason than that they can be more economical than laminate or tile. A good tile-setter here in LA will charge $125/linear foot or more for installation. If you shop right, you can find prefab 8' long granite countertops for as little as $150, with installation and minor fabrication for a few hundred dollars more. It won't be the finest workmanship at that price, but still, you can get a basic 8' countertop with 4" backplash for $600 or less, installed, while the tile-setter's labor alone will be twice that, without adding in the cost of tile, mortar, grout or hardibacker. Unless you're buying prefab laminate counters at the big box store, toting them home yourself, and doing your own templating, cutting, and installation, you'll be hard put to match the price of those prefab stone counters. Special-order laminate costs about twice as much as prefab stone. So much for "In depth" reporting at CNN.

I watched most of the OK dream sequence, and I'm not sure how it is unPC, but I might be missing something. Evidently friendly (non-sexual) affection is now not PC, and I hope this trend reverses itself. Americans are already cold and unfeeling to each other, and I was taught in 1969-1970 (through sensitivity sessions as well as psychotherapy) that physical affection is important. I think Italians today are still more affectionate than Americans and that Americans are still having to deal with the horrors brought in by the Puritans, who wanted religious freedom for themselves but not for anyone else. I would move to Italy if I could. We watched Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice last week-end, which was filmed partly at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. I've also been watching Escape from Polygamy recently, and that is just scary, but all the episodes are very similar, and so I'm not watching it anymore. The Bye Bye Birdie reference reminds me of the Flubber movies. In 1955, my mother was taking Benzedrine that was prescribed by her doctor for weight loss, even when she was pregnant with my brother Mike. BTW, I also used to make stage costumes when I lived in San Francisco, for a couple of different (radical) theater groups.