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2008-07-21
Posted by:Fred

#11  Been there Besoeker, live 45min or so away, awesome views, used to take school trips there.
thanks for the memory i'll have to revisit.
Posted by: scpatriot   2008-07-21 21:10  

#10  Visit Tallulah Falls
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-07-21 20:41  

#9  As Claude Pepper would have explained, she was a thespian in New York.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2008-07-21 19:16  

#8  "I also remember that she always seemed to be seriously trashed."

You'd be trashed, too, tu - if your name were "Tallulah."

Wait - tu3031 does begin with a "T"....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-07-21 14:50  

#7  I remember in her later years that Merv Griffin used to always have her on. I also remember that she always seemed to be seriously trashed.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-07-21 14:03  

#6  Fred, I do appreciate the opportunity you give us to see these women in their prime, particularly since previously I'd only seen them in their old age when I couldn't figure out what the attaction was.
Posted by: Pliny Juting9169   2008-07-21 14:02  

#5  I wonder if her ambidextrity kept her from the Scarlet role?
Posted by: .5MT   2008-07-21 09:33  

#4  Bankhead hit from every side of the plate.

Her family were major Dems:

Bankhead came from a powerful Democratic political family in the South in general and Alabama in particular. Her father was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936-1940 (in the 74th, 75th, and 76th Congresses), immediately preceding Sam Rayburn. She was the niece of Senator John H. Bankhead II, and granddaughter of Senator John H. Bankhead. Bankhead herself was a Democrat, albeit one of a more liberal stripe than the rest of her family.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-07-21 04:07  

#3  Preferred pitching over catching?
Posted by: gorb   2008-07-21 02:29  

#2  she batted for the other team?
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-07-21 02:10  

#1  As I recall she swung from the opposite side of the plate.
Posted by: anymouse   2008-07-21 00:51  

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