Meme stuff

[ksmith]

From the usual suspects...

A book you own that no one on your friend's list owns:

HORROR TIMES TEN, a paperback compilation from the early 70s that includes Robert Bloch's SKELETON IN THE CLOSET and Max Brand's THAT RECEDING BROW.

A CD you own that no one on your friend's list owns:

YULETUNES, a 1991 collection of Christmas songs by various artists including Material Issue and the Shoes.


A DVD/VHS tape you own that no one on your friend's list owns:

AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD, a true story of the encounter between actress Coral Browne (playing herself) and Guy Burgess, who spied on the Brits for the USSR in the 40s/50s.

A place that you've been that no one on your friend's list has been to:

American Legion Post #1 in Paris.

Comments

City of Light

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

Please do tell how you came to visit American Legiion Post #1.

Re: City of Light

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The Reader's Digest used to operate a student travel program called the Foreign Study League. I took the trip they offered in 1973--one of the cities on the itinerary was Paris.

At the time, my late uncle Roland was a captain for TWA. Both prior to and during WWII, iirc, he flew Over the Hump--the China/Burma/Tibet theater. I don't know if he flew with Chennault. I'm not sure exactly what he did. But he was a vet and that entitled him to bring guests to American Legion posts. He was going to be in Paris at the same time I was, so he met me for lunch, and took me to Post #1.

I don't recall much about the place, except it was an old building on a typical Paris sidestreet. Dark, staffed by elderly folk. For dessert, I had chocolate mousse served in a supermarket peel-off-the-lid-and-eat cup. But the gentleman who signed us in seemed quite taken by the fact that my uncle had flown Over the Hump. He said he didn't meet many who had done that.

Re: City of Light

[moon-happy.livejournal.com]

Most who jumped the hump before the war didn't survive, at least that's what my dad used to say. He served below, mostly Celon and Burma, with the OSS. These memories of them are pretty special, eh? I really like that your mousse was puddin'pop packaged even 30 years ago. Not refrigerated either, I'll wager!