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2004-05-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Come to Youngstown, Ohio and Blow Stuff Up

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Posted by tu3031 2004-05-26 8:48:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My Mom and Dad both grew up in Youngstown. I visited it many times as a boy -- back when it was still thriving. I suppose I should pay one last visit while there's still something to see.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2004-05-26 9:10:09 AM|| 2004-05-26 9:10:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 They should put signs in English & Arabic in front of a partcularly ominous looking industrial hulk reading "Super Top Secret Zionist Plutonium Production Plant". It's be terrorist flypaper, we could just pick them up as they arrived.

Posted by AzCat 2004-05-26 9:28:46 AM|| 2004-05-26 9:28:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 this decay explains a lot about James Traficant's rug....looked like a dead squirrel

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-26 10:04:05 AM|| 2004-05-26 10:04:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Stuff used to blow up a lot in Youngstown in the 60's. I grew up there and the mob was pretty active. The town is really depressing to visit now (except for Mill Creek Park!)

Posted by Frank 2004-05-26 11:47:27 AM|| 2004-05-26 11:47:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 When I was a kid, the town was thriving, but Mill Creek Park (my favorite hangout) was suffering from "deferred maintenance." Now, the park's in great shape, but the rest of the town is suffering from deferred maintenance.

Posted by Mike 2004-05-26 1:46:59 PM|| 2004-05-26 1:46:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Portions of The Deer Hunter were shot there also in the late seventies. They were looking for that steel mill ambiance and boy they found it. If you look closely, you can see yours truely in the background having a beer in the bowling alley scene. It's the one with the drunk floozy sitting at the bar with the Army Sgt. The name of that place was the Bowl-a-drome. They had closed it for the day to shoot and needed extras that looked like they drank all day in a bowling alley.

Man, talk about type casting.

Posted by Doc8404 2004-05-26 3:31:26 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:31:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lol Doc! I gonna get the DVD and examine that scene closely.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-26 3:49:20 PM|| 2004-05-26 3:49:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Doc: I don't know about you, but I've been to that wedding reception. Meaning, not that I was an extra in the wedding reception scene of The Deer Hunter, but that I got dragged to wedding receptions in Youngstown every weekend by my parents when I was growing up, and that one in the movie is a dead-on authentic Youngstown wedding reception.

Posted by Mike 2004-05-26 5:11:28 PM|| 2004-05-26 5:11:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry guys, the Dear Hunter mill setting was in Mingo Junction. Some people believe it was Struthers because of the hill. Chaney HS '72.

Posted by Frank 2004-05-27 10:21:08 AM|| 2004-05-27 10:21:08 AM|| Front Page Top

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