Johnny Weismuller became the Tarzan of our day and played in “our movies.” There were other Tarzan actors, but we favored Weismuller. Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan Adventures, discovered he could support his wife and three children quite well by writing stories about Tarzan and the apes, along with Jane, Cheeta, Boyand the rest of the jungle gang.īurroughs’ biography in Wikipedia gives the specifics: He grew up in Chicago, read a lot of pulp fiction before he realized he could make up stuff that was much more interesting.īurroughs wrote scores of Tarzan adventures, made good money, moved his family to the West Coast, built a ranch in California named Tarzanna, which was the basis for a city of the same name. At one time or another, most of us were lucky we didn’t break an arm or a leg trying to swing from one tree to another in the back pasture while yodeling Tarzan’s famous yell: “awooahwoahaaaaSome of you are way ahead of me in coming to the point in the story of Tarzan. Sometimes it would take about five agonizing minutes for the victims to sink into the bottomless pit.Īnd no matter how hokey this business about the quicksand was, or, for that matter, this business about Tarzan growing up in the jungle as a baby who miraculously survived a plane crash, we still packed into the theater the next time Tarzan came to town. Sometimes some of the good guys would fall into the trap, and Tarzan would find a handy vine to use in the rescue.īut in either situation, the “quicksand” was never quick. It looked like black mud as it sucked up the villains fleeing Tarzan. How was it that there was quicksand in the middle of the jungle? It did not look like sand in the movie. A Medieval Mystery Series Comes To An End, a guest.Years ago when I was about 12, my buddies and I had a problem while watching the Tarzan movies in the Martin Ray Theater in Evergreen.A Thanksgiving Side to Make Ahead: Broccoli-Celeri.A VERY GAUDY CHRISTMAS (and a Giveaway) by Ellen B.What Happened to the Quicksand? by Jenn McKinlay.The Robots are Coming! by Jenn McKinlay.Hallie takes Writing Step 1: What-iffing.WHAT WE'RE WRITING: HANK's NEW BOOK! KIND OF.What We're Writing Rhys on What I am Writing.What We're Writing-Debs Does the Little Details.What We're Writing: Julia Dances Architecture.What We're Writing: Spite by Jenn McKinlay.The books that made us fans and writers of crime f.Three things Sharon Ward learned from diving.Taking another plunge: Leslie Wheeler on BLOODROOT.Edith/Maddie Day is on a roll! A new cozy capers b.We'd heard the stories, everyone knew someone, and probably the entire population of Florida was present at the take-off of Flight 19, but darn, I missed the opening of the Bermuda Triangle portal and always came home. Flew through it regularly, sailed in it, boated in it, dove in it. I attended the University of Miami in the early 1970s. Why it seems to have closed for business. I have wondered about the Bermuda Triangle. They never saw the hook-handed man! There was also a robot in the basement of Iviswold Castle that had been misprogramed and had a taste for killing kids who played hooky. Only the girlfriends hunkering on the floorboards of the cars survived. We know about the hook because that's how he held the rope while he suspended the guys from trees. We also had a guy running around in the make-out spots in the Garret Mountains - he had one good hand and a hook for the other. Okay, I grew up in New Jersey - during the time of alien abductions. Maybe that's why I could so relate to the first few years of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Of course there were hellmouths under neighborhood schools I'm certain there was one under Fifty Third Street School! Reply Delete I have a memory of the vast plains of hell existing in his domain beneath our school, though I never actually went past the doorway. Groda struck fear in our hearts! I think I might have had to take a note to him from my teacher in third or fourth grade. You'll get polio!"), and- the equivalent of staying within our pod- did not play with "strange children"! (I'm pretty sure they meant people from outside your neighborhood, rather than odd kids, but maybe not.)īut the school janitor? Mr. Until the Salk vaccine, we never got overtired or chilled ("Get out of the lake. Growing up in the middle of the USA in the middle of the 20th century was incredibly benign- except for the (valid) fears of polio (you could wind up in an iron lung!) or the atom bomb. I didn't have a prayer of being anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle so it didn't scare me.
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