1) In the movie Grease, Greased Lightnin' was the name of a car. Have you ever given your car a name? No.
2) Could your vehicle use a trip to the car wash this weekend? YES! My car can always use a trip to the car wash. Just last week the car was so full of stuff that I was the only one who would fit inside. I finally got it cleaned out so now a car wash is the first item on my weekend to do list.
3) The song Greased Lightening is from the soundtrack of the movie Grease, the biggest money-making movie musical of all time. Have you ever seen it? I have, numerous times, and I must admit I’ve also seen it’s lesser known/lesser quality sequel Grease 2 almost as many times.
4) John Travolta's astrological sign is Aquarius. What's yours? Libra, but just barely.
5) In addition to being John Travolta's birthplace, Englewood, New Jersey, played a significant role in telecommunications history. In 1951, Englewood's mayor made the first-ever direct dial long-distance call in the United States. Now it's your turn. Tell us something about your birthplace…Granada Hills was on the itinerary of Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to California in 1959, the first time a Soviet leader visited the United States. Also, GH has been the setting of several movies and TV shows like ET, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scrubs, and Knots Landing.
6) Travolta is an excellent dancer. How are you on the dance floor? I don’t know how excellent I am, but I love to dance.
7) Grease is an upbeat musical about the students of Rydell High. Another Travolta movie is Carrie, which features the worst prom night imaginable. Grease or Carrie -- which is closer to your high school experience? Hmmm, well it was nothing like Grease and it was nothing like Carrie, so neither.
8) What was your best subject in high school? What was your worst? English, History, and the Arts were my favorites and math and the sciences were the worse. Although, I had a crush on my physics teacher my junior year and managed to ace the class. I’d never paid such close attention.
9) Sam made good use of the bus ride to school, using that time to complete her homework. What do you remember about getting to or from school? For the most part I walked to school every day until my friends and I were old enough to drive, and then we carpooled ourselves. The only exception to that was the year we moved neighborhoods and I went to the school my dad taught at. That year I had to drive to school with him every morning and drive home with him every evening. It was WAY too much time together.
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Oh my you moved to a school where your dad taught? Kind of like being the preacher's kid.
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Yes, it was weird. Luckily he was a well-liked teacher which made acclimating to a new school a lot easier. However he was my math teacher for a semester, as a fluke, and that was rough. Lots of fighting that year.
DeleteI wish I'd had a pretty physics teacher. Maybe my grade would've been higher than a B. Stupid physics.
ReplyDeleteYah, if he hadn't been the teacher I would have failed for sure. :)
DeleteMy high school was a private school less than ten years before so had very distinct strata. Thinking back on it, it was a truly nasty little place. But not from the kids but from the Patrician Bros owners and faculty. See, you have em too http://www.brothersofstpatrick.com/brothers.htm
ReplyDeleteI was never really into Travolta or Stallone. In fact I don't really see much difference. A pair of thick necked Italians. :-)
I looked up the area of GH. I immediately thought Brady Bunch. But you were looking across the valley at Sherman Oaks where it was set.
DeleteI never attended private school so I'm not familiar with how they operate. All schools have politics and what not, but I imagine when there are owners involved, that may change the focus a bit. But that's just speculation on my part.
DeleteI believe the exterior of the Brady house seen in all the episodes is actually Studio City, but the backyard was Sherman Oaks according to Wikipedia. Regardless they are all mid-century homes, just like the ones in GH, all suburbs of LA which boomed about the same time.
You'd have real difficulty NOT to attend a nominally private school here. 90+% are owned by the Catholic Church still.
DeleteAnd frankly I thought the GH was a gorgeous place to live. I went to Street Level and had a decko.
It is a pretty community with lots of grown up trees since it's been around awhile. It's also not terribly "tracky" like the stuff built later in the 70s/80s and beyond. As I said below, I never lived there though, just born there.
DeleteSo I've seen Granada Hills a million times and never realized it! Can you recognize your town when you watch those movies and shows?
ReplyDeleteOh ya, you've probably seen most of "The Valley" in one thing or another. I never lived in GH though, I was just born in GH Hospital which isn't even there anymore.
DeleteCHiPS was the first show I remember watching that everywhere they went was somewhere I knew. Being close to the studios, so much is filmed here even if it's supposed to be somewhere else. My favorite story of this is a neighborhood where my friend Jason lives was used for a Steven Seagal REALITY show which was supposed be set in Louisiana. Modern Family is sometimes filmed in his neighborhood too.
Art was definitely my favorite. I took art classes whenever I could.
ReplyDeleteLoved them, we'll most anyways. Once took a sculpture class and that we awful.
DeleteMy father taught high school math before he went into administration.
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I can do the dance to Greased lightening and summer love!
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