Monday, September 29, 2025
September 29 was the birthday of Tommy Boyce (Sidney Thomas Boyce, 1939-1994); and we lost Bobby Hart (Robert Harshman, 1939-2025) about three weeks ago, so I thought this would be a good ti…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 28, 2025 include ones on Peck's Bad Boy and a Vaudeville Call to Arms. It also happens to be Drink Beer Day. In no particular order, other Travala…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:02PM[SHARE]September 28 was the birthday of both Ed Sullivan and his boss, CBS founder and President William S. Paley. I wonder who got the bigger cake? Anyway, It seemed like a good time to catch you …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:54PM[SHARE]We've had numerous occasions on which to mention the pop culture phenomenon of Peck's Bad Boy, which was vital roughly from 1880 to 1940, in newspaper columns, books, stage plays, films, com…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
In researching the Variety critic Chicot a few months ago, I stumbled across a detail that sent me down a rabbit hole. The Variety writer's real name was Epes Sargent, and it turns out there…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:02PM[SHARE]Today's new Travalanche posts for September 27, 2025 include ones on three pretty obscure guys: 19th century writer Epes Sargent, Broadway songwriter Joseph McCarthy (right?), and sit-com ma…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:02PM[SHARE]September 27 was the birthday of comedy creator Cy Howard (Seymour Horowitz, 1915-1993), apparently no relation to the Howards from the Three Stooges, who were also born Horowitz. This Howar…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:12PM[SHARE]Have no fear! The title of this post doesn't refer to some imagined "good side" of the Red-Baiting Senator from Wisconsin. That man was all bad. But as it happens there was another guy with …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 26, 2025 include ones on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, fitness guru Jack LaLanne, and artists Thomas Nast and Charles Bird King. In no particular…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36PM[SHARE]September 26 was the birthday of fitness pioneer and health guru Jack LaLanne (1914-2011). LaLanne's significance lies at the very pivot point between old school physical culture of the mail…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:24PM[SHARE]Okay, the title of this post is hyperbole. Whenever you think you've I.D.'d the first anything, you're sure to be foiled. And of course everyone CLAIMS primacy. That's just p.r. 101. But Tho…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:24PM[SHARE]September 26, 1975 was the date of the American release of that singular cinematic specimen, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Is Rocky Horror the hub of the universe? For a theatre-maker of my…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:12PM[SHARE]Just a few words of acknowledgment about 19th century painter Charles Bird King (1785-1862). I first became aware of the artist through repeated visits to the Redwood Library and Athenaeum i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 25, 2025 include ones on Mercy Otis Warren, and the Beatles animated cartoon show. In no particular order, other Travalanche posts for September 2…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PM[SHARE]60 years ago today, September 25, 1965 saw the television premiere of the animated children's television show The Beatles. The show aired 39 new episodes over the following two years, and ai…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:02AM[SHARE]September 25 was the birthday of pioneering American literary figure Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814). Daughter of Massachusetts lawyer James Otis, Mercy received the benefit of the same educat…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 24, 2025 includes ones on Jim Henson, silent movie director Barry O'Neill, and movie actress Julia Faye. In no particular order, other Travalanche…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:18PM[SHARE]September 24 was the birthday of actress Julia Faye (Julia Faye Maloney, 1892-1966). Faye was a faye-vorite of Cecil B. DeMille, in more ways than one, and had over 100 screen credits to her…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:18PM[SHARE]It's Jim Henson's birthday again! Having already posted a good deal about him and his Muppet creations, I thought this year I would observe the occasion by adding this little finding aid to …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:02PM[SHARE]September 24 was the birthday of pioneering silent film director Barry O'Neil (Thomas J. McCarthy, 1865-1918). O'Neil was the son of Irish immigrants residing in New York City. His name chan…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 23, 2025 includes ones on Ken Burns' The Civil War, and Seinfeld's Jason Alexander. In no particular order, other Travalanche posts for September …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18PM[SHARE]The order in which I have posted about the primary cast members and creators of Seinfeld speaks volumes: Jerry Seinfeld (2020), Larry David (2021), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2024), Heidi Swedberg…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18PM[SHARE]Today marks 35 years since the opening shot of Ken Burns' The Civil War (1990) went hurtling toward Fort Sumter. Arriving at the height of the Culture Wars, this nine part, ten hour document…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:12PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 22, 2025 includes ones on Narragansett Indian track champion Tarzan Brown, and a thing on rhinoceros movies. In no particular order, other Travala…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18PM[SHARE]September 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day, but I have already done numerous elephant themed posts. Fortunately, it's also World Rhinoceros Day so I thought I would do a small post on these e…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18PM[SHARE]Born of a September 22, track star Ellison "Tarzan" Brown (1913-1975). My recent trip back to the city of birth, Westerly, Rhode Island, reconnected me with memories of Brown, a more famous …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2025
Today's new Travalanche post for September 21, 2025 is about actress/author/entertainer Fannie Flagg. In no particular order, other Travalanche posts for September 21 include ones on: Silent…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:24PM[SHARE]I was working at a bookstore when the 1992 screen version of Fried Green Tomatoes was released. Naturally at the time there was a reissue of the novel, which had been written in 1987 by Fann…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
Today's new Travalanche posts for September 20, 2025 are about Batman (for Batman Day), tempestuous actress Rachel Roberts, and Nelson Sardelli, secret father of Mariska Hargitay. In no part…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:42PM[SHARE]The third Saturday in September is celebrated as Batman Day by nerds throughout the globe, and why should I be any different? In observation of the day I have pulled together my many posts r…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:36PM[SHARE]There used to be more than one definition of the word sexy. It's come to mean sexually attractive, or attractive full-stop. Long ago, maybe a century ago or thereabouts, it was sometimes use…
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