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August 7th, 2025 at 5:36:14 PM
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Quote: avianrandySeen bumper sticker on car today.... Do you follow Jesus this closely?
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I don't care if it rains or freezes
as long as I got my plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car
I could go 100 miler per hour
as long as I got the might power
glued up there with my pair of fuzzy dice
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
August 7th, 2025 at 5:59:59 PM
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In the summer of 1973, WNBC launched a massive publicity campaign around the Wolfman coming home( he was from Brooklyn) and how they were going to kick Cousin Brucie's ass. He never delivered the rating they wanted and he was fired within a year. NBC decided it was better to hire Cousin Brucie than pay someone twice his salary to lose the ratings war. I think Wolfman wanted to be in Hollywood anyway, so it worked out well for all.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
August 7th, 2025 at 6:26:07 PM
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I remember in 1963 drinking beer out of a can where I had to use a church key to open it. 2 years later they were all pull tabs.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
August 7th, 2025 at 9:06:24 PM
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Quote: EvenBobI remember in 1963 drinking beer out of a can where I had to use a church key to open it. 2 years later they were all pull tabs.
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I remember sodas like that in the 1970s, steel can with a seam. I think Hoffman's might have been the last to be sold like that.
August 7th, 2025 at 10:25:41 PM
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I seem to remember Wolfman Jack spinning '80's tunes around 1986 from WNBC but I can't find any reference for it. I was 300 miles away, so I only picked it up when driving around late at night. This was around the time Diamond David Lee Roth was going to make the preceding 30 years of rock irrelevant with his showmanship.
August 7th, 2025 at 10:35:57 PM
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Quote: ChumpChangeI seem to remember Wolfman Jack spinning '80's tunes around 1986 from WNBC but I can't find any reference for it. I was 300 miles away, so I only picked it up when driving around late at night. This was around the time Diamond David Lee Roth was going to make the preceding 30 years of rock irrelevant with his showmanship.
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They might have been picking up his syndicated show. Around that period, NBC had Imus in the morning, Soupy Sales midday, and Stern in the afternoon. Then Stern left and went to FM and switched to the morning show.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
August 8th, 2025 at 2:33:08 AM
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Quote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: EvenBobI remember in 1963 drinking beer out of a can where I had to use a church key to open it. 2 years later they were all pull tabs.
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I remember sodas like that in the 1970s, steel can with a seam. I think Hoffman's might have been the last to be sold like that.
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Those were so heavy you could repair your exhaust with them.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
August 8th, 2025 at 4:56:48 AM
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Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when before a highway trip people would ask, "how fast are you gonna go?"
The speed limit coast to coast was a silly 55 mph but almost everyone went 5-15 mph over. There were tricks to avoid tickets but often you got one sooner or later. Some states didn't really enforce it much others made lots of $$$ writing tickets.
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I believe I got a ticket for 10mph over on the highway once. Maybe it was a slow day for the highway patrol. My cruise control keeps me within bounds of highway speed limits. Usually set 5 mile over or 5 under. Often not in a hurry though. A lot of right lane hwy driving.
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August 8th, 2025 at 10:50:34 AM
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Red Grape Malt Duck drink - a little more ABV than light beer, less than wine. Carbonated, packaged in big-mouth bottles of 1 qt (?).
Peach Nehi - super sweet, perfect mixer for Everclear Trash Can Punch.
Snoopy Snow Cone Machine. I think you can still see the ad with the jingle on YouTube.
Dallas Cowboys teams that actually won something.
Big hair, double-polo shirts and Stan Smith tennis shoes that always smelled horrible.
Bugles snack - is it still around?
EZ Bake Oven - "baking" a cake using the heat of an incandescent light bulb. No burn hazard here, tho.
Rock Em Sock Em Robots. I never saw one that actually worked.
Peach Nehi - super sweet, perfect mixer for Everclear Trash Can Punch.
Snoopy Snow Cone Machine. I think you can still see the ad with the jingle on YouTube.
Dallas Cowboys teams that actually won something.
Big hair, double-polo shirts and Stan Smith tennis shoes that always smelled horrible.
Bugles snack - is it still around?
EZ Bake Oven - "baking" a cake using the heat of an incandescent light bulb. No burn hazard here, tho.
Rock Em Sock Em Robots. I never saw one that actually worked.
August 8th, 2025 at 11:08:09 AM
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Bugles snack - is it still around?
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Yes, America's Favorite Finger Hats are still around.
May the cards fall in your favor.
August 8th, 2025 at 11:30:32 AM
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Quote: DieterQuote: SummerlinDave
Bugles snack - is it still around?
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Yes, America's Favorite Finger Hats are still around.
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Now there are multiple flavors. I only remember the original until a year or two ago.
You can't know everything, but you can know anything.
August 8th, 2025 at 11:37:21 AM
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I can still remember the first time I had Bugles. It was at a family gathering and they were on a snack table, next to my favorite- potato chips and dip. A long-time love affair ensued. Someplace along the line, middle age kicked in, and we went our separate paths.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
August 8th, 2025 at 11:53:36 AM
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Quote: billryanI can still remember the first time I had Bugles. It was at a family gathering and they were on a snack table, next to my favorite- potato chips and dip. A long-time love affair ensued. Someplace along the line, middle age kicked in, and we went our separate paths.
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Wow, you got the Bugles to play, at a family gathering? You must have been rich! They did the first MTV video I believe, "Video Killed The Radio Star."
That wasn't the first YouTube video though, that was Me, At the Zoo.
August 8th, 2025 at 12:18:18 PM
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Wow, you got the Bugles to play, at a family gathering? You must have been rich! They did the first MTV video I believe, "Video Killed The Radio Star."
That wasn't the first YouTube video though, that was Me, At the Zoo.
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The Buggles??
August 8th, 2025 at 2:07:31 PM
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TikTok Killed The Video Star
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJkGtXoS_ud/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJkGtXoS_ud/?hl=en
August 8th, 2025 at 2:49:32 PM
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I dunno. Bugles were fun and quirky, but they always seemed like salty misshapen Corn Chex to me ("NTTAWWT").
The youngsters do enjoy the finger-hat thing, but family tradition demands black olives be worn on the fingertips at social gatherings.
The youngsters do enjoy the finger-hat thing, but family tradition demands black olives be worn on the fingertips at social gatherings.
May the cards fall in your favor.
August 8th, 2025 at 3:20:27 PM
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Bugles had two sister-snacks, Daisies and Whistles. There was another snack that resembled a wheel but was supposed to be a pizza. It was very garlicky. I don't remember what Whistles tasted like, but I remember liking Bugles more. I don't remember ever trying Daisies; they were marketed to girls.
Bugles resembled the cornucopia-shaped spaceship from Lost in Space to me, more than any bugle.
Bugles resembled the cornucopia-shaped spaceship from Lost in Space to me, more than any bugle.
The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
August 9th, 2025 at 2:24:08 PM
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Quote: SummerlinDaveQuote: AutomaticMonkey
Wow, you got the Bugles to play, at a family gathering? You must have been rich! They did the first MTV video I believe, "Video Killed The Radio Star."
That wasn't the first YouTube video though, that was Me, At the Zoo.
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The Buggles??
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Perhaps you’re thinking of the Bugaloos…? After all, “they’re in the air and everywhere.”
I want to start wearing a T-shirt that reads, “Don’t feel sorry for me. I’m an AP!”
August 9th, 2025 at 10:06:23 PM
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Some of my best memories of the 1950s is when the whole family would go to drive-in movies. We saw so many movies this way. It was huge fun. And it was the only place at least where we lived where you could get pizza. There were no pizza restaurants, pizza was not sold frozen in the grocery store. The only place you ever saw it pre-made was at drive-in movies. I remember seeing Forbidden Planet at the drive-in and that lion like creature that attacked the ship scared me in my dreams for years. Families did things together in the '50s, we always had a big Sunday dinner in the fifties. It was a totally different world than what we have now. My parents would drop us off at the movie theater downtown on Saturday afternoon and we would sit there for 4 hours watching cartoons and westerns and comedies and there was not a single adult in the audience. Just hundreds of screaming children. It was heaven. Little did we know that our parents did this so they could have 4 hours at home to screw their brains out while the movie theater babysat us.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
August 10th, 2025 at 1:10:53 AM
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Quote: camaplQuote: SummerlinDaveQuote: AutomaticMonkey
Wow, you got the Bugles to play, at a family gathering? You must have been rich! They did the first MTV video I believe, "Video Killed The Radio Star."
That wasn't the first YouTube video though, that was Me, At the Zoo.
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The Buggles??
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Perhaps you’re thinking of the Bugaloos…? After all, “they’re in the air and everywhere.”
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That's Boogalow, as in Boogalow's Industrial Music.
Hey hey hey, BIM's on the way!
Interesting movie. The Apple was supposed to be critical of 80s style music that was replacing 60s and 70s style music. But the movie came out in 1980, and features some pretty good 80s music. BIM was a style of glam rock, big huge productions, forced participation, that took over all of society like a cult. What it didn't accurately predict was that Gen-X was absolutely unlike the prior generation in many ways. Not easy to herd or socially manipulate us; too much "Do whatever you want and leave me out of it" attitude. So we got the glam rock but you still listened to whatever you wanted.
There was another generational TV movie (or was it a miniseries?) from around the same time called The Wave, where a high school history teacher starts a cult that is like the Nazis in everything but name, to show his students how easy it is to be turned into a Nazi. That's another one they got wrong: good luck trying to get anyone in high school in 1981 to do anything weird and foreign and that he didn't seek out on his own because a teacher told him to. That was 1968 behavior, not 1981. We didn't respect any authority.
August 10th, 2025 at 8:32:45 AM
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1979 movie Over the Edge. Matt Dillon was in it.
Definite lack of respect of authority in this one.
Definite lack of respect of authority in this one.
Son you ain’t paying attention
I’m cutting you but you ain’t bleeding
- Foghorn Leghorn
August 10th, 2025 at 9:28:08 PM
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This video is amazing because it masterfully highlights how the big three automakers changed the style of their car completely every year. How did they do that. We were used to it, but now it's the total opposite. My wife's Chevy Cruze looks like every Chevy Cruze ever made for the last 15 years. But if you bought a 62 Dodge Dart it was totally different from a 61 Dodge Dart. The amount of work that it went into this has to be astounding.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z4mcBuZGp4A
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z4mcBuZGp4A
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
August 11th, 2025 at 2:37:35 AM
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Quote: EvenBobThis video is amazing because it masterfully highlights how the big three automakers changed the style of their car completely every year. How did they do that. We were used to it, but now it's the total opposite. My wife's Chevy Cruze looks like every Chevy Cruze ever made for the last 15 years. But if you bought a 62 Dodge Dart it was totally different from a 61 Dodge Dart. The amount of work that it went into this has to be astounding.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z4mcBuZGp4A
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Cars used to be body on frame or in the case of this Dodge subframes. Changes were easier to make. Today you have to re-engineer the entire body.
But indeed, people used to care about styling. Today all cars look so much alike it is hard to care.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
August 12th, 2025 at 5:09:20 AM
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Remember when "Nightline" was a big deal? I had to look to verify it still airs, but now it is not near what it was back in the 80s and 90s.
Started as the need for daily in-depth coverage of the Iran hostage crisis could not be met during the daily news. it was fast made a regular show. Back before the news channels, there was the 22 or so minute news-hole on the nightly news. There were no nightly shows like The Factor where you could spend half an hour going into detail.
If the news was big but not big enough for wall-to-wall coverage (eg: Reagan shot) you stayed up late and saw the details. 1986 Stock Market crash, 1990 Kuwait invasion, and how many others. If it was a slow night you probably watched Carson or Leno instead, at least the monologue.
Today the news channels cover it as it all happens. Maybe they change up their nightly shows.
Started as the need for daily in-depth coverage of the Iran hostage crisis could not be met during the daily news. it was fast made a regular show. Back before the news channels, there was the 22 or so minute news-hole on the nightly news. There were no nightly shows like The Factor where you could spend half an hour going into detail.
If the news was big but not big enough for wall-to-wall coverage (eg: Reagan shot) you stayed up late and saw the details. 1986 Stock Market crash, 1990 Kuwait invasion, and how many others. If it was a slow night you probably watched Carson or Leno instead, at least the monologue.
Today the news channels cover it as it all happens. Maybe they change up their nightly shows.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
August 12th, 2025 at 5:26:52 AM
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nightline was started because ABC couldn't compete with CBS and NBC''s 1130 talk shows After numerous efforts, they realized a news show gave them the best bang for their budget. They were a distant third in a three way race and needed to pull a rabbit out of there hat in order to compete
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August 12th, 2025 at 5:51:23 AM
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Yeah I remember Nightline. Hosted by Alfred E. Newman.
I guess there wasn't a lot of news analysis back then. Actually doing what 60 Minutes pretended to be doing.
I guess there wasn't a lot of news analysis back then. Actually doing what 60 Minutes pretended to be doing.
August 12th, 2025 at 11:59:29 AM
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this scene has my vote for among the greatest in the history of film
of course, real gangs don't dance - but that's the creative genius of it
the 2nd vid is also amazing - the "Tonight Quartet" - the musical orchestration of Leonard Bernstein somehow getting 5 unique voices linked into one song
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV3hIL-G0&list=RDMyUV3hIL-G0&start_radio=1
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this scene has my vote for among the greatest in the history of film
of course, real gangs don't dance - but that's the creative genius of it
the 2nd vid is also amazing - the "Tonight Quartet" - the musical orchestration of Leonard Bernstein somehow getting 5 unique voices linked into one song
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV3hIL-G0&list=RDMyUV3hIL-G0&start_radio=1
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August 12th, 2025 at 12:45:57 PM
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this scene has my vote for among the greatest in the history of film
of course, real gangs don't dance - but that's the creative genius of it
the 2nd vid is also amazing - the "Tonight Quartet" - the musical orchestration of Leonard Bernstein somehow getting 5 unique voices linked into one song
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV3hIL-G0&list=RDMyUV3hIL-G0&start_radio=1
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Have you ever seen The Sharks vs, The Crips?
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August 12th, 2025 at 2:01:10 PM
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Anita loves America
Nardo not so much_____________________________(-:/
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Anita loves America
Nardo not so much_____________________________(-:/
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
August 13th, 2025 at 4:16:34 AM
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last one and I'm done
"Gee Officer Krupke"
what a trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys&list=RDj7TT4jnnWys&start_radio=1
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last one and I'm done
"Gee Officer Krupke"
what a trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys&list=RDj7TT4jnnWys&start_radio=1
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the foolish sayings of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him
August 13th, 2025 at 6:58:02 AM
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I don't know if I have a favorite musical. I did like Moulin Rouge for a modern musical. No choreography really in it though..
I might have a favorite Opera, if I ever see more than 2.
I was surprised how much I like the music alone without the visual ballet of the Nutcracker distracting me.
I might have a favorite Opera, if I ever see more than 2.
I was surprised how much I like the music alone without the visual ballet of the Nutcracker distracting me.
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August 13th, 2025 at 7:50:36 AM
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Quote: rxwineI don't know if I have a favorite musical.
"The Blues Brothers" is the only musical I ever liked.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others
August 13th, 2025 at 7:55:39 AM
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Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: rxwineI don't know if I have a favorite musical.
"The Blues Brothers" is the only musical I ever liked.
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I liked that when it came out in the early 80s but it's so dated that I can't watch it now. I can't watch any part of it, it just seems silly. But it was extremely influencing when it came out.
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August 13th, 2025 at 9:56:50 AM
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The Book of Mormon was the best musical that I ever saw.
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August 14th, 2025 at 4:12:18 AM
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Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront"_________________before my time - I'm not that old - I saw it on TV in the late 60s
"you don't understand - I could have had class - I could have been a contender - I could have been somebody - instead of a bum - which is what I am"
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Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront"_________________before my time - I'm not that old - I saw it on TV in the late 60s
"you don't understand - I could have had class - I could have been a contender - I could have been somebody - instead of a bum - which is what I am"
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August 14th, 2025 at 5:07:05 AM
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The 1960s movie version of West Side Story is sublime. Incredible music, song execution, choreography and cinematography.
On stage, Les Miserables is probably my favorite musical. Incredible and overpowering from start to finish.
On stage, Les Miserables is probably my favorite musical. Incredible and overpowering from start to finish.
So many better men, a few of them friends, are dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things live on, and so do I.
August 14th, 2025 at 11:16:24 AM
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Quote: gordonm888The 1960s movie version of West Side Story is sublime. Incredible music, song execution, choreography and cinematography.
On stage, Les Miserables is probably my favorite musical. Incredible and overpowering from start to finish.
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Did ever see Broadway's Lion King? For me, it was the ultimate.
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August 18th, 2025 at 12:05:43 PM
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Larry Costello who retired in '68 from the 76ers was the last of the NBA's two hand set shot shooters
you can see it at 8 seconds into the vid
he shot over 90% from the foul line with it one year and was close to 90% with it in 2 other years - that is a very high %
when the jump shot took over the old timers used to say "if you had to jump to get off your shot then you didn't have a shot"_________________WRONG________________(-:/
the jump shot is widely attributed to Kenny Sailors who first started using it in the 1930s
that's him in the pic after the vid and then some commentary on it
it looks like he's shooting it with 2 hands - what a great, great pic
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from google:
"The jump shot in basketball is generally traced back to the 1930s, with several players independently developing and popularizing the technique. While it's difficult to pinpoint a single inventor, Kenny Sailors is widely credited with refining and popularizing the one-handed jump shot, which is the modern version we see today. He began using it in the 1930s while playing in Wyoming, and his success with the shot brought it to national attention in the 1940s. "
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Larry Costello who retired in '68 from the 76ers was the last of the NBA's two hand set shot shooters
you can see it at 8 seconds into the vid
he shot over 90% from the foul line with it one year and was close to 90% with it in 2 other years - that is a very high %
when the jump shot took over the old timers used to say "if you had to jump to get off your shot then you didn't have a shot"_________________WRONG________________(-:/
the jump shot is widely attributed to Kenny Sailors who first started using it in the 1930s
that's him in the pic after the vid and then some commentary on it
it looks like he's shooting it with 2 hands - what a great, great pic
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from google:
"The jump shot in basketball is generally traced back to the 1930s, with several players independently developing and popularizing the technique. While it's difficult to pinpoint a single inventor, Kenny Sailors is widely credited with refining and popularizing the one-handed jump shot, which is the modern version we see today. He began using it in the 1930s while playing in Wyoming, and his success with the shot brought it to national attention in the 1940s. "
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