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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Mar 28, 2013 14:28:49 GMT -5
Watching the Bequest from Season Two and GrandpaZeb has one of the funniest scenes when he's taking a bath and steps in the water that's colder than ice water.He starts screaming and hollering and the lateWillGeer's humor comes out. He was such a funny man. Was he a comedic actor n his time. He knew how to make you laugh and was surely missed after his passing. He also shucks Olvia while peeling corn husks and it's alsot the episode where Mary Ellen bleaches Jim Bobs hair. Also the family thinkinkingthey will get $250 from a will from one of Grandma’s friends shows what a bit of money meant to people who had hardly any in the depression. We almost seem richer even in this time of a recession but their value of money with so little and their love of family is why we love the Walton's so much. WmFan
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Post by margro on Mar 29, 2013 3:20:48 GMT -5
Whenever I watch the Empty Nest I wonder how the cast felt in the scene when they go up to Grandpa's grave. It must have been very emotional for them on a personal level because working together so closely for a number of years would have made them very attached to one another. I cry every time I watch that episode.
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Post by mtdawg on Mar 29, 2013 4:44:41 GMT -5
Wmfan..I have not seen that episode for years! I do remember it and your comments are so true.
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Post by flyaway on Mar 29, 2013 6:48:42 GMT -5
Just watched "The Quilting" when Grandpa, Jason, Yancy and Ike get together at the store. When Ike sends Corabeth off he says "toodolydo" to her.
I'm still trying to find the other show that he says the same thing to Olivia and Grandma as he's leaving their place and Olivia looks at Grandma and says "Would you marry a man that says Toodolydo? Grandma replies "No".
Anybody know which show??
Chris
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2013 9:54:08 GMT -5
"Would you marry a man that says Toodolydo? Grandma replies "No".
Anybody know which show??
The abdication I think. They are sitting on the front porch doing "nothing" and hope nobody from the church catches them. Ike rides up and gives them the day old newspaper.
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Post by flyaway on Mar 29, 2013 14:13:38 GMT -5
"Would you marry a man that says Toodolydo? Grandma replies "No". Anybody know which show?? The abdication I think. They are sitting on the front porch doing "nothing" and hope nobody from the church catches them. Ike rides up and gives them the day old newspaper. OOOOO I'll have to watch for that one. Thanks! |
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Post by Rhonda on Mar 30, 2013 7:06:19 GMT -5
"Would you marry a man that says Toodolydo? Grandma replies "No". Anybody know which show?? The abdication I think. They are sitting on the front porch doing "nothing" and hope nobody from the church catches them. Ike rides up and gives them the day old newspaper. As Ike drives off ~ I think it's Grandma that says something like Can you imagine being married to a man that says "toodolydo"  |
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Post by Tonyray on Apr 2, 2013 15:27:03 GMT -5
The look on Ike's face is a classic What in the world are women doing sitting on the porch in the middle of the day. Even Grandma though something must be wrong because Olivia was sitting on the porch.
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Post by Marilyn on Apr 2, 2013 19:16:10 GMT -5
About that bathtub scene.... who in the world just turns on the water to fill the tub and doesn't adjust the temp? That always bugged me. 
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Post by Marilyn on Apr 2, 2013 19:22:35 GMT -5
The look on Ike's face is a classic What in the world are women doing sitting on the porch in the middle of the day. Even Grandma though something must be wrong because Olivia was sitting on the porch.
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Apr 3, 2013 6:55:25 GMT -5
 About that bathtub scene.... who in the world just turns on the water to fill the tub and doesn't adjust the temp? That always bugged me. It looked like he felt the water Marilyn , but usually one adjusts how warm or cold it feels before they get in. Funny scene though and good humor!
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Post by emeraldcity31 on Apr 3, 2013 19:50:02 GMT -5
Speaking about how much money must have meant to people in the Depression (earlier comment), I was watching a show today(The Boy From the CCC?) when John Walton holds a $5 bill up in front of the family and says, "Do you know what this is? It's a $5 bill!" and everyone oo's and ahh's and comments about how now they must be rich!! Olivia scoffs it up and says she's saving it for shoes in the fall so they won't all go barefoot! Imagine a $5 bill meaning that much to a family? Oh my.... And yes, Margro, I feel the same way about The Empty Nest when they go up to Grandpa's grave. A very emotional show - gets me every time.
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Post by wmfan/waltonsportwriter on Apr 3, 2013 20:03:29 GMT -5
Speaking about how much money must have meant to people in the Depression (earlier comment), I was watching a show today(The Boy From the CCC?) when John Walton holds a $5 bill up in front of the family and says, "Do you know what this is? It's a $5 bill!" and everyone oo's and ahh's and comments about how now they must be rich!! Olivia scoffs it up and says she's saving it for shoes in the fall so they won't all go barefoot! Imagine a $5 bill meaning that much to a family? Oh my.... And yes, Margro, I feel the same way about The Empty Nest when they go up to Grandpa's grave. A very emotional show - gets me every time. Back then it had to be about 20-30 dollars. I once saw a pizza receipt from my parents backin college in the early 1960s about 3-4 dollars. I remember John Boys Lobster dinner cost 2.15 and a 25 cent tip in the Journey Lobster! Now 5 dollars is about 50 cents back then.WmFan |
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Apr 4, 2013 7:56:06 GMT -5
My paternal Grandfather was born in 1890. My Dad, his youngest child of 8, was born in 1946. I have the notebook that my Grandfather keep his income/tax records in for the year 1955. His income for the year was $550.00. Taxes & other expenses still had to come out of that. His income came from farming & selling pigs. He never owned a tractor or a vehicle, so it was all done by manual physical labor at the age of 65!
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Post by JeriJet on Apr 4, 2013 11:22:27 GMT -5
My paternal Grandfather was born in 1890. My Dad, his youngest child of 8, was born in 1946. I have the notebook that my Grandfather keep his income/tax records in for the year 1955. His income for the year was $550.00. Taxes & other expenses still had to come out of that. His income came from farming & selling pigs. He never owned a tractor or a vehicle, so it was all done by manual physical labor at the age of 65! Since my Dad died in 2000 at 85, I've had all of his check registers from 1938, the year he married Mom. He had worked at The Dime Savings Bank since 1936 and had become "obsessed" with recording every penny spent !! One of the last things my husband and I did together was read through those registers.... Dad itemized EVERYTHING and tended to write a check instead of paying cash, just to keep a record, and he used a desk register (with three checks per page and a full page opposite just for notes) -- so, remembering some things.... about $2.50 at the hardware store in the late 1940's could buy a box of nails and a gallon of paint and maybe something else, too. $4.50 at the "garage" would pay for oil, lube, and repairing a flat tire.... FUN !! There's a website MeasuringWealth.com where you can view the history of the value of the U.S. dollar, so I made a list of several years (hope this copies well) -- you can look up any year from 1774 to 2011. They give a range, and also "Purchase Power" which is what I used..... so $25 in 2011 was worth: | Measuring Wealth | | | | 2011 | 25.00 | | | | 1900 | 0.91 | | 1910 | 1.02 | | 1920 | 2.23 | | 1925 | 1.95 | | 1930 | 1.86 | | 1935 | 1.53 | | 1940 | 1.56 | | 1945 | 2.00 | | 1950 | 2.68 | | 1960 | 3.29 | | 1970 | 4.32 | | 1980 | 9.16 | | 1990 | 14.50 | | 1995 | 16.90 | | 2000 | 19.10 | | 2005 | 21.70 | | 2010 | 24.20 |
Interesting to note that from 1925, it dipped and didn't get fully back until 1945..... and it soared the most from 1970 to 1990.... |
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