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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

We get those flash floods here all the time. Just changw Loma Linda to Bellevue. Lots of good size rivers and creeks is the reason. So my place is up on a hill about 1300 feet above ground.

[Frank Cox]

Interesting that the California DMV is now texting its enforcement notices from a cellphone number in The Philippines!

While that is a scam, now that so much stuff is outsourced you can't just assume that stuff that comes from far away places isn't legitimate. Warner Bros uses some payment service provided by Capgemini, and I have the impression that the woman I send "I paid this one" notices to is in the Philippines as well.

[Leo Enticknap]

We get those flash floods here all the time. Just changw Loma Linda to Bellevue.

We sometimes get them here, but only after several days of what Michael Fish infamously called "organized rain" have overwhelmed the storm drains and runoff channels. On the day that screenshot was taken, there hadn't been any rain locally for some time, and Apple Weather's second prediction was also bang on the nail in that all we eventually got was a couple of hours of light, on and off drizzle (and at almost exactly the time it predicted that we would get it): nothing like what would be needed to cause a flash flood. I guess the warning must have been caused by a glitch in their forecasting models.

While that is a scam, now that so much stuff is outsourced you can't just assume that stuff that comes from far away places isn't legitimate.

True, but I've never had it come from a phone number in the foreign country: international call centers are usually reached by calling a domestic number, and if they call or text you, it appears to come from a domestic number, too. I also had another text with almost identical wording from a number in India.

[Jim Cassedy]

A Projection "Want Ad" From A 1906 Theatrical Publication- Apparently you not only needed
to know how to crank the projector, but also how to "make yourself useful" and paint signs!
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Those of you who are keen-eyed and know a bit about theater history might also notice that the ad
was placed by the B.F. Keith Organization. Mr Keith owned one of the largest group of vaudeville
theaters in the late 1800s, most of them on the East Coast, and he was also a prolific booker and
producer of vaudeville acts. Eventually, through mergers and a partnership with Edward Albee,
another theater impresario, his theater empire grew to several hundred vaudeville houses.
Keith-Albee's most famous theaters were in Boston, New York, Atlantic City and Philadelphia.
I would imagine that by 1906, he realized that adding motion pictures to his entertainment empire
was probably a prudent business decision. (and indeed, many of his theaters did survive as motion
picture houses, long after vaudeville 'died' ) Mr Keith died in 1914, and some time in the 1920's the
Keith-Abee circuit was acquired by the Orpheum Theaters circuit, which became known (not
surprisingly) as the "Keith-Albee-Orpheum" Circuit, which, at it height, controlled and booked
vaudeville acts and motion pictures into over 700 theaters in the US and Canada.

[Ed Gordon]

Twenty two theaters that were part of the Orpheum Circuit are still in operation. The Orpheum in Seattle was demolished in 1967.

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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

We sometimes get them here, but only after several days of what Michael Fish infamously called "organized rain" have overwhelmed the storm drains and runoff channels. On the day that screenshot was taken, there hadn't been any rain locally for some time, and Apple Weather's second prediction was also bang on the nail in that all we eventually got was a couple of hours of light, on and off drizzle (and at almost exactly the time it predicted that we would get it): nothing like what would be needed to cause a flash flood. I guess the warning must have been caused by a glitch in their forecasting models.



True, but I've never had it come from a phone number in the foreign country: international call centers are usually reached by calling a domestic number, and if they call or text you, it appears to come from a domestic number, too. I also had another text with almost identical wording from a number in India.

We're in the organized storm mode for the last two months. It pretty much always looks like this, oh, and the humidity here is 97% this morning... Rain.jpg

[Ryan Gallagher]

Just had a nice cell pass over during this film here, luckily not the wind driven stuff that causes water to come in around the edges of the smoke pockets over stage this time. No towel/mop duties in my evening.

The last super cell that hit Austin had us hearing all sorts of noises we don't normally hear on the roof in our anti-booth, all wind, we thought it was thunder, but no it was just stuff banging around up there. Quite impressive. I did have a wet stage after that one.

[Leo Enticknap]

I don't think the manager of my local supermarket majored in geography at college...

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[James Biggins]

remove please

[Mark Ogden]

One for projectionist letter collectors: Disney's The Black Hole.

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[Martin McCaffery]

A Projection "Want Ad" From A 1906 Theatrical Publication- Apparently you not only needed
to know how to crank the projector, but also how to "make yourself useful" and paint signs!

Sign painting was important in the days before standardized posters. Well into the talkie year, many theatres had in house sign painters.

Related trivia: Ever wonder why the top music trade magazine is called Billboard? Because it was originally a magazine for the billboard painters trade. It eventually morphed into a Variety competitor and then specialized in music.

[Paul H. Rayton]

To expand on the mini-history summary that Jim Cassedy started about 8 posts ago ... the combined vaudeville companies he mentioned, known as the "Keith-Albee-Orpheum" vaudeville circuit soon enough became the heart of the company known as RKO Pictures, a name you might recognize from watching some late-night TV shows, for one thing. The head of RCA Corporation, David Sarnoff, was looking to create a market for the variable area soundtrack system (developed by RCA), and ultimately combined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theaters into what would become RKO Pictures. RKO operated under several variations of that name, but ultimately it was "RKO Radio Pictures" Company, and it established its mark in Hollywood over the years. Two pictures, in particular: "King Kong", and "Citizen Kane", both became classics in the canon of American motion pictures. RKO was sliced and diced over the successive decades, with various portions being sold (and the older pictures distributed) by various entities. Amazingly, just about a month ago, a company by the name of Concord Productions (with wide connections in the music business) re-collected all the disparate parts of the old RKO "empire", and now, for the first time in years, the RKO library is under unified ownership once again. We can thus hope that the combined film history of RKO will remain (or become) more available, since the new owners will [hopefully] be interested in making some of the long-disappeared titles become accessible once again.

[Martin McCaffery]

Be interesting to see what the end up with. RKO used to distribute Disney films before Disney created Buena Vista. Sure RKO never owned the rights, and I wonder what similar deals they had.