She sort of squeaks at me, because she is elderly.
I keep wishing I could bring her home. That would be a new level of coolness for horror movie fandom. Imagine doing a late night double feature with a black cat as a watch buddy?
“All in the Family” (1971 – 1979) was an institution when I grew up. Even if you were a really young kid, you knew it was a pretty big part of the zeitgeist.
Both the opening and closing credits were filmed in Glendale, Queens. It probably didn’t look very different from Woodhaven, Queens, where I was a baby — though I obviously remember very little of that.
One of the show’s fans actually visited Glendale last year and found the house where the Bunkers were supposed to have lived. (The house’s fictional location was Astoria.) The guy posted a pretty neat video of his visit; you can find it right here:
The neighborhood actually looks a lot nicer (and greener!) than it did back in the 1970’s. But I guess that’s probably true about a lot of places around New York City.
The original illustration here was completed in 1887 (as is evidenced by the artist’s signature). For the sake of simplicity on this blog, I routinely list the date of publication for artworks.
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