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Post by beaner on Aug 1, 2006 18:08:36 GMT -5
I thought this might be neat. There has got to be something everyday that someone has, uses, or comes in contact with that can relate to the Carpenters in some way.
For instance, my license plate frame reads "Honk if you love the Carpenters".
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Post by beaner on Aug 1, 2006 18:11:42 GMT -5
Sorry I pressed the enter button and wanted to write more. For example, on this thread, there could be someone who has a Mickey Mouse key ring...thus, Karen Carpenter loved Mickey Mouse or you might you might have had a cup of coffee and used "Rich's Half and Half".
There is always something, perhaps something different every day you can think of.
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 1, 2006 19:02:58 GMT -5
Almost every day I see a friend of mine (who is a Carpenter). He wears a tee-shirt which has the name Local Carpenters on it. The "Local" is in small print while "Carpenters" is in larger print and the logo looks very similar to the famous Carpenters logo.
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Post by makapipi on Aug 2, 2006 1:02:37 GMT -5
Cool topic. My car is a 1975 Plymouth Duster which has original AM radio. 1975 is when "Horizon album" came out. That AM radio with those speakers very likely played "Only Yesterday" and "Please Mr. Postman" numerous times.
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Aug 2, 2006 16:11:48 GMT -5
On my fridge is one of the mini-album magnets that Jim sent to me. It's the cover of HORIZON. I come in contact with it several times every single day. Love that picture. AND...my company has contracts with BNSF railroad in the greater LA area. I think of Carpenters each day I visit with the folks in LA - since Karen and Rich lived out in that neck of the woods. GREAT thread, Beaner!! Tim
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Post by Prisoner_Walking on Aug 2, 2006 16:44:09 GMT -5
There is a woman in the office where I work who looks very similar to how Karen would look if she was alive today. When I told her, she was very flattered - people always used to liken her to Karen during the 70's.
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Post by ps11932 on Aug 2, 2006 17:05:07 GMT -5
This is a great topic and a lot of fun to read! I'm similar to Rick in that I have contact with some carpenters. I work in facilities and my office is less than 50 feet from our carpenter shop and occasionally people get a little off course and come to my area, saying they are looking for the carpenters. Unless I'm in a distracted or intense mood I will say, "Man, I love the Carpenters!" Some pretty good conversations have started that way.
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Post by Prisoner_Walking on Aug 4, 2006 5:31:43 GMT -5
PS11932 - that's funny! It reminded me that my Grandparents run a pub/bar in the town where I live called "The Carpenters" for 30 years...my Grandmother is still alive (84) and no longer lives in the town, but often asks me have I seen "The Carpenters" recently....
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Post by Dave on Aug 4, 2006 10:24:47 GMT -5
Over in the Different Light section, I have a thread called "Always Something To Remind Me" that covers this. For instance, on a trip to Gettysburg a few weeks ago I passed an apartment complex called The Carpenters Village, and wondered how many albums you needed to rent there, I'll bet that the police never get any complaints for loud music. On the way to North Carolina a few months ago, I was passed twice by a pickup with the Virginia tag KAC-2980. We never did figure out whether February 9, 1980 has any historical significance or not.
"There is a woman in the office where I work who looks very similar to how Karen would look if she was alive today. When I told her, she was very flattered - people always used to liken her to Karen during the 70's."
If you can, please post her photo. I tried to have a company that does age progressions for the police do one for Karen, but it never got off the ground.
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Post by beaner on Aug 4, 2006 17:45:46 GMT -5
Yesterday I read where Marie Osmond was hospitalized; however, it made me think of Karen Carpenter who dated Marie's brother, Alan Osmond, for a little bit.
Then today I looked all over for my watch (which I still cannot find) but at one point it made me think of when I used to wear one of my Carpenters souveniers which is the Carpenters watch from the 70's original fan club.
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Post by ps11932 on Aug 4, 2006 18:31:33 GMT -5
I have just rread all the posts here again- this is a great thread- as is "Always Something There To Remind Me." It makes me thankful and glad there is a site like this where we can talk about Carpenters observations and impacts, with people of like mind.
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Post by Dave on Aug 4, 2006 20:26:33 GMT -5
Yeah, this place can be a real lifesaver at times...like when you're trying to figure out why certain things are happening. I sent Rick and Tim a photo I took of a church in a nearby town. It's called The Carpenter's Cross church. A local of the Carpenters union has an "adopt-a-highway" sign on PA Route 51 just south of the West End Bridge. And at NASA, the final wake-up song of the Apollo program was "We've Only Just Begun". I'm working on having history repeat itself with the final Space Shuttle flight in 2010.
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Post by wisejester7 on Aug 4, 2006 20:58:19 GMT -5
Yeah, this place can be a real lifesaver at times...like when you're trying to figure out why certain things are happening. I sent Rick and Tim a photo I took of a church in a nearby town. It's called The Carpenter's Cross church. A local of the Carpenters union has an "adopt-a-highway" sign on PA Route 51 just south of the West End Bridge. And at NASA, the final wake-up song of the Apollo program was "We've Only Just Begun". I'm working on having history repeat itself with the final Space Shuttle flight in 2010. Dave, Is there anything we can do to help make 'We've Only Just Begun' the final wake up call? ;-)wisejester7
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Post by smoothie2 on Aug 5, 2006 0:32:14 GMT -5
???Very Interesting thread indeed. Well, anytime I see a Snickers I think of Karen since that was her fave candy I believe. I think quite a bit just about every day, that my first destination, if I get the chance is to go to Disney World and/or Downey and all there is to see about "the C's." I was there when that Disney place was not completely finished. And I think of how Richard and Karen lived very close at that time also, quite some yrs. before they became "stars". I think of how Richard could have very well been performing right at that time when I was just a kid there with my folks and brother. :)I may think of something else later.
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Post by Dave on Aug 5, 2006 7:00:30 GMT -5
I don't think that we can "lobby" in the sense of how you get a band on the R&R HOF nominations. There is nowhere in particular that we could do that. But it WOULD be really neat, and would perhaps spur the public's interest if we could vote, via the Internet, and choose the wakeup songs from a selection for a Shuttle mission. The thing about that is that being sent into space is a very emotional thing, and the songs selected always have a special meaning for those who are on the receiving end. Now, we can have some fun. If I were an astronaut (hey, I can dream, can't I?), and was going to be on the upcoming STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, and I had two songs to choose from, what would they be? I can think of two, and their order would depend upon when I had my chance. Mission specialists are normally far down the food chain, so let's pretend that my day was a day when I was going to be doing an EVA on the HST. What would I pick? "Lay Your Hands On Me", by the Thompson Twins. I've had an EVA-based "video" for this song since Day One. My second selection? "Top Of The World". I would take both Karen's solo and Carpenters Gold into space with me, and give them to Richard after the mission was completed. NASA's main site has a "contact us" tab on it, so maybe we should begin now to lobby them. If we explain the historical significance it will go a long way, as they seem to be appreciative of those who are familiar with their history. Smoothie, I almost forgot to tell you that I have a photo of the piano on Main Street USA in Orlando. If you want it, drop me a line at spaceflight101@verizon.net.
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Post by Dave on Aug 5, 2006 8:59:18 GMT -5
I was just surfing around, trying to find the address for the Westlake Village cemetery, so I could look it up on Google Maps, and found this tidbit: Karen had a vanity plate: "KAC3". I wonder if anyone else in the other 49 states has ever tried to get this plate. Smoothie, check it out!
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 5, 2006 9:29:52 GMT -5
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Post by wisejester7 on Aug 5, 2006 10:56:19 GMT -5
???Very Interesting thread indeed. BTW... I believe the Disney place that you are referring to would be Disneyland - that's where the "Please Mr. Postman" video was filmed. Disneyland is in Anaheim, CA. I'm only about ten minutes away from there. The other place you mentioned is Disney World and that's all the way in Florida. I don't think Carpenters did anything at Disney World - I don't even think Disney World was built before Karen's passing. But Karen did mention Disneyland and Mickey Mouse more than a few times. Also Richard (with John Bettis) worked at Disneyland's famous Coke Corner.
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