Father's Day

Father's day today. It was kind of overshadowed by Grandmom's passing and all the arrangements and stuff.

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Bengies, Yard Sale Finds & Patrick's 10th

Went to the Bengies again Sunday with Matthew. We saw Cars and X-Men III. They were both pretty good. If you liked Toy Story, A Bugs Life, etc., you'll like Cars. X-Men III was pretty dark and depressing (for an action/adventure film). Although all three of them have been good, it's been kind of downhill with this series since the first one. D.Vogel told us to make sure we stayed till the end of the credits or we'd miss something.

I bought a lot of stuff at a neighborhood yard sale over on Hazelwood Avenue Saturday. A bunch of CDs and VHS tapes, two pairs of pants, a cool Orioles hat, a marble cheese slicer, a briefcase, a couple of audio cassettes and an adjustable arm lamp. It's a sickness. Later on the three of us (Tom didn't want to go) went over to Howard and Dolores for Patrick's 10th birthday party. I'll post some pictures of that later.

Bengies Drive-In: 50th Anniversary Show

"I bet the three Vogel brothers, who opened this drive-in 50 years ago tonight, never thought it would still be here for it's Silver Anniversary".

Tuesday night was the 50th Anniversary of the Grand Opening of the Bengies Drive-In. The features were all from the 50's: Humphrey Bogart and Rod Stieger in The Harder They Fall and Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida in Trapeze .(Edge to Edge on the biggest screen on the East Coast!). I thought I had never seen The Harder They Fall until the bus with the fighter cut-outs on the side showed up - I must have seen it on broadcast TV when they used to show movies. Trapeze I remember very well, maybe I saw it at the Earl Theater. In those days, it wasn't unusual for theaters to have a movie that was made years before. Maybe it was part of a double-feature. Anyway, I had fun and both movies were good. D. Vogel (the owner) seemed pretty choked up about the whole thing, especially when he talked about his father.

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