Lake Chapala's INSIDE LAKESIDE
Log In or Register

Check your spam/junk folder for activation e-mail after you register.

Join the forum, it's quick and easy

Lake Chapala's INSIDE LAKESIDE
Log In or Register

Check your spam/junk folder for activation e-mail after you register.
Lake Chapala's INSIDE LAKESIDE
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

It was 35 years ago today...

+9
gringal
Rosa Venus
WDBarr
Clete
brigitte
viajero
Trailrunner
Zedinmexico
ltollefs
13 posters

Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty It was 35 years ago today...

Post by ltollefs Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:48 am

I remember being in the traffic on Hwy 405 in LA when the news came over the radio...

John Lennon
ltollefs
ltollefs
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 1130
Join date : 2013-03-24
Location : Chapala

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Zedinmexico Tue Dec 08, 2015 7:32 am

I was in my basement student apartment and heard it over Syracuse University student radio station in Oswego NY. I was very upset.

Z

Zedinmexico
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 5604
Join date : 2011-10-28
Location : On the hill in Ajijic
Humor : Red Dwarf, Marx Brothers, SCTV

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Trailrunner Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:13 am

We had just moved to Southern Oregon and picked up the paper while having coffee on our deck on the Applegate River. We cried and cried.

Trailrunner
Trailrunner
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 8038
Join date : 2011-04-18

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by viajero Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:52 am

ltollefs wrote:I remember being in the traffic on Hwy 405 in LA
Traffic on the 405??

viajero
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 5755
Join date : 2011-07-26
Location : San Pedro de los Saguaros
Humor : Twain

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by brigitte Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:10 am

I was at the Waldorf in New York in the Zebra bar when I heard the news . A patron there wanted to pick up a couple of whores and they refused because they were too depressed to work because of the death of John Lemon. The old man got man and called security to have them kick out but the security refused as they were not working so the old man said he was a guess and started making a scandal so the whores left bu as they were leaving one of them stuck up her lit up cigarette in the face of the old man who started screming..the women disappeared.. I will never forget that day,

brigitte
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 4318
Join date : 2011-12-02

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by ltollefs Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:19 am

viajero wrote:
ltollefs wrote:I remember being in the traffic on Hwy 405 in LA
Traffic on the 405??
We were heading from Huntington Beach to Wilmington, if memory serves - it was 35 years ago, after all - and we were on a highway. I guessed that it was the 405. At the very least, I can assert with authority that we were on land. Somewhere.
ltollefs
ltollefs
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 1130
Join date : 2013-03-24
Location : Chapala

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by viajero Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:26 am

ltollefs wrote:
viajero wrote:
ltollefs wrote:I remember being in the traffic on Hwy 405 in LA
Traffic on the 405??
We were heading from Huntington Beach to Wilmington, if memory serves - it was 35 years ago, after all - and we were on a highway. I guessed that it was the 405. At the very least, I can assert with authority, that we were on land. Somewhere.
What the heck were you going to Wilmington for?crack? Very Happy
I spent 25 years and about a million hours commuting to work on the 405..I don't miss it.

viajero
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 5755
Join date : 2011-07-26
Location : San Pedro de los Saguaros
Humor : Twain

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by brigitte Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:48 am

Sorry guys I wrote John Lemon instead of Lennon..morning are tough...

brigitte
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 4318
Join date : 2011-12-02

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by ltollefs Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:13 am

viajero wrote:
ltollefs wrote:
viajero wrote:
ltollefs wrote:I remember being in the traffic on Hwy 405 in LA
Traffic on the 405??
We were heading from Huntington Beach to Wilmington, if memory serves - it was 35 years ago, after all - and we were on a highway. I guessed that it was the 405. At the very least, I can assert with authority, that we were on land. Somewhere.
What the heck were you going to Wilmington for?crack? Very Happy
I spent 25 years and about a million hours commuting to work on the 405..I don't miss it.

There was, maybe is, a diver training center there. A buddy wanted to work on the rigs in the gulf and thought that would be a good place to start. We were on our way to check the place out. It didn't work out for some forgotten reason.
ltollefs
ltollefs
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 1130
Join date : 2013-03-24
Location : Chapala

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by viajero Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:24 am

That makes sense,there is a dive school there,I used to dock my King Cruiser 29 in Wilmington,it's a sketchy town.

viajero
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 5755
Join date : 2011-07-26
Location : San Pedro de los Saguaros
Humor : Twain

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Clete Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:18 pm

I was at sea somewhere between Manila and Singapore. We didn't get much work done that day.

Clete
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 506
Join date : 2015-09-06

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Lennon Dies

Post by WDBarr Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:40 pm

For God's sake people...he was singer in a band...get over it...he's dead and gone!!

WDBarr
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 195
Join date : 2014-10-20
Location : Ajijic

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Rosa Venus Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:04 pm

Interesting. I live in a town in Mexico where most of the foreigners are older than me. As I read this thread, I was trying to remember where I was when I heard the news….and I have no idea. I was a little too young for Lennon to represent something important to me, but I certainly remember when he was murdered and that it meant a lot to a lot of people. I could see and feel that by the outpour. He was an Icon. A poet even. He moved people.

And then I read this:

WDBarr wrote:For God's sake people...he was  singer in a band...get over it...he's dead and gone!!

This post, in my view, represents a total lack of understanding and respect for the opinions and feelings of others. Since we are in the public portion of this forum, I'll leave it at that.

RIP / DEP
Rosa Venus
Rosa Venus
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 2094
Join date : 2012-05-24
Location : Mexico
Humor : The funny kind

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Zedinmexico Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:12 am

WDBarr wrote:For God's sake people...he was  singer in a band...get over it...he's dead and gone!!

Obviously he changed lives or we wouldn't feel like this. I truly feel sorry for you if you never understood what Lennon and the Beatles stood for. He was so much more than a singer in a band or a songwriter he was a spokesperson for a whole generation worldwide. You missed something in life Barr. I can imagine what else you missed in life.

Z

Zedinmexico
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 5604
Join date : 2011-10-28
Location : On the hill in Ajijic
Humor : Red Dwarf, Marx Brothers, SCTV

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Trailrunner Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:54 am

Well said, Z, looks like Barr still doesn't get it.
Trailrunner
Trailrunner
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 8038
Join date : 2011-04-18

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by gringal Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:56 am

Trailrunner wrote:Well said, Z, looks like Barr still doesn't get it.

If you can read the words to "Imagine" and you don't get it.......it's hopeless.

gringal
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 11955
Join date : 2010-04-09
Location : Lake Chapala (from CA)
Humor : occasionally

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by annied Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:01 am

Yes, well said Z. I had the tv on but not really watching it, it was football. Howard Cosell broke the news to me. Upset? Yes, you could definitely say that.
annied
annied
Senior member
Senior member

Posts : 74
Join date : 2014-09-30
Age : 69
Location : Riberas del Pilar, Jalisco
Humor : Easily amused

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Smartalex Thu Dec 10, 2015 1:12 pm

I also got the news from Howard Cosell...cried for days afterward...needed a towel to soak up the tears. (Click on the Youtube logo to view.)

Smartalex
Smartalex
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 2678
Join date : 2012-05-14
Location : Chapala

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by David Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:54 pm

I too was watching football. My brother called me and gave me the sad news.
David
David
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 5003
Join date : 2010-04-05
Location : Ajijic
Humor : Good

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by hockables Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:44 pm

Betcha Barr still hasn't gotten over Lennon proclaiming " We're more popular than Jesus " 1966... Beer

Generations Identify with Lennon as A Man Of Peace, An Anti-War Crusader, An Activist, And A Bitch'n Song Writer...

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us only Sky



hockables
hockables
Share Holder
Share Holder

Posts : 3748
Join date : 2010-04-06

Back to top Go down

It was 35 years ago today... Empty Re: It was 35 years ago today...

Post by Sponsored content


Sponsored content


Back to top Go down

Back to top

- Similar topics

 
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum