04-29-2014, 11:49 AM
G'day all,
In a recent thread the poster, and I apologise for not searching but it's not really relevant, made a reference to Apache Junction. Now that name, to this rather naive Aussie, conjured up memories of a host of gun fighters, drifters, cowpunchers, black hats, white hats, saloons and their women. In short, a blast from the silver screens of my past. From Alan Ladd to Clint Eastwood they sure did keep me saving my pennies, pardner, for the next episode of that low budget but cliff hanging serial or the next gun powder fuelled block buster.
Then only yesterday I came across this. Move over Clint, this seats taken by the Wild One.
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Now, time to leave dark fantasy of the cinema and walk, dazed, into the bright, harsh, and often shocking sunlight of reality. Does that café, or diner, or it's iteration still exist? Maybe it's now a Walmart car park, or even a KFC. Do men, dressed in double breasted Brando jackets astride CB1100s and looking dangerous, still lounge around outside that diner at Apache Junction? Well I will never know until I see the pics.
Cheers
WARNING: This post contains traces of that area of brilliant ideas that exists in an ill-defined zone between the first and second bottle of full bodied Hunter Valley Shiraz.
Just watching our evening news. For those of you living in Tornado land, I sincerely hope that you, your families and friends are all OK
Tony
In a recent thread the poster, and I apologise for not searching but it's not really relevant, made a reference to Apache Junction. Now that name, to this rather naive Aussie, conjured up memories of a host of gun fighters, drifters, cowpunchers, black hats, white hats, saloons and their women. In short, a blast from the silver screens of my past. From Alan Ladd to Clint Eastwood they sure did keep me saving my pennies, pardner, for the next episode of that low budget but cliff hanging serial or the next gun powder fuelled block buster.
Then only yesterday I came across this. Move over Clint, this seats taken by the Wild One.
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Now, time to leave dark fantasy of the cinema and walk, dazed, into the bright, harsh, and often shocking sunlight of reality. Does that café, or diner, or it's iteration still exist? Maybe it's now a Walmart car park, or even a KFC. Do men, dressed in double breasted Brando jackets astride CB1100s and looking dangerous, still lounge around outside that diner at Apache Junction? Well I will never know until I see the pics.
Cheers
WARNING: This post contains traces of that area of brilliant ideas that exists in an ill-defined zone between the first and second bottle of full bodied Hunter Valley Shiraz.
Just watching our evening news. For those of you living in Tornado land, I sincerely hope that you, your families and friends are all OK
Tony