I need to conduct an interview with someone over 70 about pollution?
Q. i need to know what life was like when you were young concerning pollution, what did you do with your trash, did you have as much waste today like all the plastics and card board boxes, or did you recylce and reuse containers and things like that. How did you get your food, what were the temperatures like, was summer real hot and winter real cold, did you hear about pollution much or was it not even something people talked about.
A. Pollution came primarily from industries. Coal was the primary fuel for Steel Mills, and Railroads.
Smoke stack industries were common. Soot and airborne chemicals were common in the air. Many chemicals were dumped into our rivers.
There were no laws or concerns for many years. I never heard the word Pollution. It was an acceptable part of jobs, working and living.
We just accepted and lived with the dirt.
As Unions became stronger, demanding more and more wages, costs of coal began to increase, for industry as well as for home heating.
I lived in a smoke stack city. We had three major industries.
Coal Mines, Railroad, and Steel.
When coal unions struck for more wages, the steel mills shut down for lack of fuel/coal. The railroads shut down for lack of coal and steel to haul.
When the coal unions gained more wages, coal prices increased.
Steel mills went on strike for more wages.
Railroads shut down with no steel & coal to carry with reduced demand for coal by the striking steel unions.
When the steel unions got higher wages, prices of steel increased as well as many other products.
The Railroads went on strike for higher wages.
Without the railroads, steel and coal shut down with no one to carry their products.
After the railroads got higher wages, the scenario repeated itself every time the contract of one or the other industry expired.
Finally, the Steel mills had enough and they changed to Gas furnaces.
The Railroads finally had enough and they converted to Diesel engines.
Homes converted to gas heating.
The coal industry lost their azz. Most of them shut down with high unemployment. Thanks to John L. Lewis.
Automobiles were not fuel efficient with oil at $7-9 per barrel, mostly US oil. After WW II, imported oil was used in great amounts, much cheaper.
However the numbers of autos were far less than anything we see today. I and friends could count the number of cars that passed in an hour. Maybe a dozen, or less. We depended on Electric Street Cars for local transportation. Trains for long distance.
After WW II, General Motors bought the Los Angeles transportation system. Shortly thereafter GM shut it down. Later, the tracks were removed. Was there a motive there?
The trucking industry became major after WW II.
As for trash, cities had limited pickups. Mose cardboard and paper was used to ignite coal stoves/furnaces and consumed.
There were no plastic containers as we have today. Glass was the main product and that was reused or recycled. Cans were also in use and those too were recycled. As a kid, I hunted those, as well as metals and rags, sold to "Ragmen" as they were called. Those were men who came around on horse and wagons, with a hand scale and bought our loot for pennies. I knew one who put three kids through college.
Japan purchased most of our cans which they made into toys and sold to the US. Japan also emptied our junk yards in the mid 30s.
They returned it later. Japan did not have a steel industry at that time.
Summers were Hot. We had no AC and few fans. Ceiling fans were not in yet. Remember many homes were not wired for electricity. Many homes, ours, had only gas lights.
Winters were Cold in the North. Few homes had central heat. Most had a coal stove in one room. Bedrooms were cold. I've seen snow on the bedroom floor below the windows. Heavy comforters needed.
We had grocery stores, nothing like Super Markets. A person was behind a counter and brought the items request to the customer.
Products were not prepackaged. Eggs were loose and placed in a paper bag for the customer. That was chore to get them home in one piece. Sugar was in barrels and bagged by the pound as ordered. Pickles and sauerkraut were in barrels.
In Summer months, farmers brought their vegetables to town by horse and wagon, later by truck, and sold door to door. They had scales.
During the Great Depression, many Jews carried garments in garment bags, on their backs, door to door. A girl's dress about $1.00 or less.
Smoke stack industries were common. Soot and airborne chemicals were common in the air. Many chemicals were dumped into our rivers.
There were no laws or concerns for many years. I never heard the word Pollution. It was an acceptable part of jobs, working and living.
We just accepted and lived with the dirt.
As Unions became stronger, demanding more and more wages, costs of coal began to increase, for industry as well as for home heating.
I lived in a smoke stack city. We had three major industries.
Coal Mines, Railroad, and Steel.
When coal unions struck for more wages, the steel mills shut down for lack of fuel/coal. The railroads shut down for lack of coal and steel to haul.
When the coal unions gained more wages, coal prices increased.
Steel mills went on strike for more wages.
Railroads shut down with no steel & coal to carry with reduced demand for coal by the striking steel unions.
When the steel unions got higher wages, prices of steel increased as well as many other products.
The Railroads went on strike for higher wages.
Without the railroads, steel and coal shut down with no one to carry their products.
After the railroads got higher wages, the scenario repeated itself every time the contract of one or the other industry expired.
Finally, the Steel mills had enough and they changed to Gas furnaces.
The Railroads finally had enough and they converted to Diesel engines.
Homes converted to gas heating.
The coal industry lost their azz. Most of them shut down with high unemployment. Thanks to John L. Lewis.
Automobiles were not fuel efficient with oil at $7-9 per barrel, mostly US oil. After WW II, imported oil was used in great amounts, much cheaper.
However the numbers of autos were far less than anything we see today. I and friends could count the number of cars that passed in an hour. Maybe a dozen, or less. We depended on Electric Street Cars for local transportation. Trains for long distance.
After WW II, General Motors bought the Los Angeles transportation system. Shortly thereafter GM shut it down. Later, the tracks were removed. Was there a motive there?
The trucking industry became major after WW II.
As for trash, cities had limited pickups. Mose cardboard and paper was used to ignite coal stoves/furnaces and consumed.
There were no plastic containers as we have today. Glass was the main product and that was reused or recycled. Cans were also in use and those too were recycled. As a kid, I hunted those, as well as metals and rags, sold to "Ragmen" as they were called. Those were men who came around on horse and wagons, with a hand scale and bought our loot for pennies. I knew one who put three kids through college.
Japan purchased most of our cans which they made into toys and sold to the US. Japan also emptied our junk yards in the mid 30s.
They returned it later. Japan did not have a steel industry at that time.
Summers were Hot. We had no AC and few fans. Ceiling fans were not in yet. Remember many homes were not wired for electricity. Many homes, ours, had only gas lights.
Winters were Cold in the North. Few homes had central heat. Most had a coal stove in one room. Bedrooms were cold. I've seen snow on the bedroom floor below the windows. Heavy comforters needed.
We had grocery stores, nothing like Super Markets. A person was behind a counter and brought the items request to the customer.
Products were not prepackaged. Eggs were loose and placed in a paper bag for the customer. That was chore to get them home in one piece. Sugar was in barrels and bagged by the pound as ordered. Pickles and sauerkraut were in barrels.
In Summer months, farmers brought their vegetables to town by horse and wagon, later by truck, and sold door to door. They had scales.
During the Great Depression, many Jews carried garments in garment bags, on their backs, door to door. A girl's dress about $1.00 or less.
For those that are or were amateur boxers, who are or were your idols of the sport?
Q. You can tell me as many as you want because it's difficult to decide since this sport is full of great athletes but my top 5 idols of boxing are:
Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Aaron Pryor
Roberto Duran
Mike Tyson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Aaron Pryor
Roberto Duran
Mike Tyson
A. while i boxed the guys i looked up to were
1 julio cesar chavez ... brilliant pressure fighter who seemed to destroy world class fighters with his body shots he wasn't the fastest boxer but made up for it with timing and a great boxing brain , i tried to fight like chavez which annoyed my trainer as his style wasn't really suited to the amateur game and i would some times take shots coming in to land my own shots .
2 terry norris ... now norris was the opposite to myself, fast slick and smooth and i looked up to him because i couldn't fight like him he had a kill or be killed attitude which i loved ,norris didn't want to outpoint his opponent he wanted to crush them to ko them when you consider he was a box-puncher he could of made a lot of fights easier for himself by just boxing and getting the points win instead of trading with guys like julian jackson ,john mugabi,don curry ,meldrick taylor and sugar ray leonard ,i loved aggressive fighters and norris was one a 100%
3 tommy hearns ... well everything i said about norris applies to hearns to he was so exciting with chilling power ,the reason i have norris above the hit man is simply that most of hearns big fights happened before i was boxing while norris was champ while i was fighting , man you have to love to hit-man what a fighter he was .
4 mike tyson .... i get a little annoyed sometimes when people mention his lose to lewis and his later loses that was a shell of the once great fighter who lit up boxing in the mid to late 80's , tyson was a complete throw back to the days of jack dempsey fast aggressive with great defence and ko power in either hand he was completely different to the heavies of the day who were mostly boxers in the holmes mode and a bit flabby then came tyson a wrecking machine who became the youngest heavy weight champ at just 20. the tyson that destroyed micheal spinks would of given any fighter that ever lived a hard night , i had a tyson poster on my bedroom wall .
5 marvellous marvin hagler ... a great middle champion who was the complete pro always came to fight at 100% he was a mans man not fancy like leonard he didn't wear long stupid shorts or act flash he let his fists do the talking his win over hearns showed the size of his balls hearns was a killer for the first 3 rounds of any fight and for hagler to charge straight at the hitman seemed like madness at the time but hagler took his best shots and won in 3 great rounds it would of been easier for hagler to try to wear down hearns later on but he went straight for the kill .
honourable mentions
barry McGuigan great irish pressure fighter who i was lucky enough to have met as a kid .
eveander holyfield the ultimate warrior a great cruiser and heavy weight.
roberto duran what can i say about this legend on his night he was brilliant whether he was 21,30 or 37 he was a great warrior
1 julio cesar chavez ... brilliant pressure fighter who seemed to destroy world class fighters with his body shots he wasn't the fastest boxer but made up for it with timing and a great boxing brain , i tried to fight like chavez which annoyed my trainer as his style wasn't really suited to the amateur game and i would some times take shots coming in to land my own shots .
2 terry norris ... now norris was the opposite to myself, fast slick and smooth and i looked up to him because i couldn't fight like him he had a kill or be killed attitude which i loved ,norris didn't want to outpoint his opponent he wanted to crush them to ko them when you consider he was a box-puncher he could of made a lot of fights easier for himself by just boxing and getting the points win instead of trading with guys like julian jackson ,john mugabi,don curry ,meldrick taylor and sugar ray leonard ,i loved aggressive fighters and norris was one a 100%
3 tommy hearns ... well everything i said about norris applies to hearns to he was so exciting with chilling power ,the reason i have norris above the hit man is simply that most of hearns big fights happened before i was boxing while norris was champ while i was fighting , man you have to love to hit-man what a fighter he was .
4 mike tyson .... i get a little annoyed sometimes when people mention his lose to lewis and his later loses that was a shell of the once great fighter who lit up boxing in the mid to late 80's , tyson was a complete throw back to the days of jack dempsey fast aggressive with great defence and ko power in either hand he was completely different to the heavies of the day who were mostly boxers in the holmes mode and a bit flabby then came tyson a wrecking machine who became the youngest heavy weight champ at just 20. the tyson that destroyed micheal spinks would of given any fighter that ever lived a hard night , i had a tyson poster on my bedroom wall .
5 marvellous marvin hagler ... a great middle champion who was the complete pro always came to fight at 100% he was a mans man not fancy like leonard he didn't wear long stupid shorts or act flash he let his fists do the talking his win over hearns showed the size of his balls hearns was a killer for the first 3 rounds of any fight and for hagler to charge straight at the hitman seemed like madness at the time but hagler took his best shots and won in 3 great rounds it would of been easier for hagler to try to wear down hearns later on but he went straight for the kill .
honourable mentions
barry McGuigan great irish pressure fighter who i was lucky enough to have met as a kid .
eveander holyfield the ultimate warrior a great cruiser and heavy weight.
roberto duran what can i say about this legend on his night he was brilliant whether he was 21,30 or 37 he was a great warrior
American Eagle Songs 2009?
Q. I heard a song in American Eagle in December sometime, and i forget how it goes and everything. If anyone is able to send me a playlist of all the recent songs that play in American Eagle, it would be GREATLY appreciated.
A. KANM's American Eagle Playlist '09-'10
Phoenix - 1901
Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time
VHS or Beta - Can't Believe A Single Word
Does It Offend You Yeah? - Dawn Of The Dead
Architecture In Helsinki - Debbie
Beck - Devil's Haircut
Walter Meego - Forever
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Gunpowder
Metric - Handshakes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Blur - Parklife
Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Ryan Lindsey - Let's Go Out
Passion Pit - Let Your Love Grow Tall
Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
Chromeo - Momma's Boy
Blackalicious - Powers
Ben Harper - Steal My Kisses
Of Montreal - I Was Never Young
Jem - They
Mother Mother - Train Of Thought
Amy Winehouse - Valery
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Mates Of State - Whiner's Bio
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
The Submarines � You, Me And The Bourgeoisie
M83 - Kim & Jessie
All Time Low - Lost In Stereo
The Audition - The Way You Move
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
The Almost - Say This Sooner
Parachute - All That I Am
Forever The Sickest Kids � Whoa Oh! (Me Vs. Everyone)
The Maine � I Must Be Dreaming
Cash Cash � Party In Your Bedroom
Common - Drivin' Me Wild
Three Dog Night - Mamma Told Me Not To Come
N.E.R.D. - Rock Star
Kanye West - Stronger
Rihanna - Hard
Wale - Pretty Girls
The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Timbaland - Morning After Dark
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Kid Cudi - Alive
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Phoenix - 1901
Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time
VHS or Beta - Can't Believe A Single Word
Does It Offend You Yeah? - Dawn Of The Dead
Architecture In Helsinki - Debbie
Beck - Devil's Haircut
Walter Meego - Forever
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Gunpowder
Metric - Handshakes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Blur - Parklife
Black Kids - I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Ryan Lindsey - Let's Go Out
Passion Pit - Let Your Love Grow Tall
Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
Chromeo - Momma's Boy
Blackalicious - Powers
Ben Harper - Steal My Kisses
Of Montreal - I Was Never Young
Jem - They
Mother Mother - Train Of Thought
Amy Winehouse - Valery
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Mates Of State - Whiner's Bio
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
The Submarines � You, Me And The Bourgeoisie
M83 - Kim & Jessie
All Time Low - Lost In Stereo
The Audition - The Way You Move
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
The Almost - Say This Sooner
Parachute - All That I Am
Forever The Sickest Kids � Whoa Oh! (Me Vs. Everyone)
The Maine � I Must Be Dreaming
Cash Cash � Party In Your Bedroom
Common - Drivin' Me Wild
Three Dog Night - Mamma Told Me Not To Come
N.E.R.D. - Rock Star
Kanye West - Stronger
Rihanna - Hard
Wale - Pretty Girls
The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Timbaland - Morning After Dark
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Kid Cudi - Alive
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor is based on Dean Martin. Was Dean Martin a mean drunk in real life?
Q. I thought Jerry Lewis was having a go at Dean Martin after the falling-out they had. Nutty professor was his way of saying that Dean Martin was a different person after drinking some potion as in the old vino
A. Dean Martin was happy drunk, but he did not drink all night with his well known clans, Jerry Lewis, and Frank Sinatra, instead he went to bed early so he can get up to play golf. He also was welter weight boxer.
I believe the Nutty Professor, was an satire on Dr. Jackal and Mr Hyde.
Personal Quotes From Dean Martin:
If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let 'em. That's how I got here, you know.
I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.
To those who felt he joked his way through songs during concert and nightclub appearences: "You wanna hear it straight, buy the album."
Upon filing for divorce from his second wife: "I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman."
I drink because my body craves, needs alcohol. I don't drink, my body's a drunk.
On Joey Bishop: Most people think of Joey Bishop as just a replacement for Johnny Carson. That's NOT true. We in show business know better: we don't think of him at ALL.
On Phyllis Diller: Phyllis is the women of about whom Picasso once said, "Somebody throw a drop cloth over that."
On Frank Sinatra: In high school, Frank never participated in extra-curricular activities, like nature study, paintings or ceramics. Frank's hobby was a most interesting one: he was an amateur gynecologist.
On James Stewart: There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
On Orson Welles: What can you say about Orson Welles that Don Rickles hasn't already said about him?!
On Bob Hope: As a young boy, Bob didn't have much to say. He couldn't afford writers then.
On Don Rickles: Don's idea of a fun evening is to show home movies of the attack on Pearl Harbor...with a laugh track.
On Johnny Carson: Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife left him.
On Milton Berle: Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.
On his tee-total friend Pat Boone: "I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!"
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
I can't stand an actor or actress who tells me acting is hard work. It's easy work. Anyone who says it isn't never had to stand on his feet all day dealing blackjack.
Motivation is a lotta crap.
"Someone else, would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn't know, how to be sick ... he's recuperating the hard way. He's two loud speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, 'Oh, there goes Perry Como.' But there's only one 'John Wayne', and nobody makes any mistakes about that." - On The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
[On Shirley MacLaine] Shirley, I love her, but her oars aren't touching the water these days.
[On singer Eddie Fisher] The reason I drink is because, when I'm sober, I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
[On Frank Sinatra] When he dies, they're giving his zipper to the Smithsonian.
[On Jerry Lewis] At some point, he said to himself, "I'm extraordinary, like Charles Chaplin". From then on, nobody could tell him anything. He knew it all.
Salary
Airport (1970) $7,000,000
Ada (1961) $300,000
All in a Night's Work (1961) $250,000
The Young Lions (1958) $35,000
I believe the Nutty Professor, was an satire on Dr. Jackal and Mr Hyde.
Personal Quotes From Dean Martin:
If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let 'em. That's how I got here, you know.
I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.
To those who felt he joked his way through songs during concert and nightclub appearences: "You wanna hear it straight, buy the album."
Upon filing for divorce from his second wife: "I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman."
I drink because my body craves, needs alcohol. I don't drink, my body's a drunk.
On Joey Bishop: Most people think of Joey Bishop as just a replacement for Johnny Carson. That's NOT true. We in show business know better: we don't think of him at ALL.
On Phyllis Diller: Phyllis is the women of about whom Picasso once said, "Somebody throw a drop cloth over that."
On Frank Sinatra: In high school, Frank never participated in extra-curricular activities, like nature study, paintings or ceramics. Frank's hobby was a most interesting one: he was an amateur gynecologist.
On James Stewart: There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
On Orson Welles: What can you say about Orson Welles that Don Rickles hasn't already said about him?!
On Bob Hope: As a young boy, Bob didn't have much to say. He couldn't afford writers then.
On Don Rickles: Don's idea of a fun evening is to show home movies of the attack on Pearl Harbor...with a laugh track.
On Johnny Carson: Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife left him.
On Milton Berle: Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.
On his tee-total friend Pat Boone: "I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!"
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
I can't stand an actor or actress who tells me acting is hard work. It's easy work. Anyone who says it isn't never had to stand on his feet all day dealing blackjack.
Motivation is a lotta crap.
"Someone else, would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn't know, how to be sick ... he's recuperating the hard way. He's two loud speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, 'Oh, there goes Perry Como.' But there's only one 'John Wayne', and nobody makes any mistakes about that." - On The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
[On Shirley MacLaine] Shirley, I love her, but her oars aren't touching the water these days.
[On singer Eddie Fisher] The reason I drink is because, when I'm sober, I think I'm Eddie Fisher.
[On Frank Sinatra] When he dies, they're giving his zipper to the Smithsonian.
[On Jerry Lewis] At some point, he said to himself, "I'm extraordinary, like Charles Chaplin". From then on, nobody could tell him anything. He knew it all.
Salary
Airport (1970) $7,000,000
Ada (1961) $300,000
All in a Night's Work (1961) $250,000
The Young Lions (1958) $35,000
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