Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Ohh I wish they would have put Johnny Rockets in DTD - or some other 50's type restaurant...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <However, one of my Dad's bass drum heads from when he was with the Drifters . Whoa. Back up there, bucko. Your dad was in the Drifters? The "Under the Boardwalk" Drifters? I'm assuming he wasn't black, so was he in their show band in a later incarnation? Whatever, that's pretty cool.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Anyone remember that one at Universal City Walk in Hollywood -- 'Cafe Tu Tu Tango'?" I ate there about a year ago. It didn't seem too overpriced (considering the other options at City Walk, that is), but the weird art really did catch me off guard. There were a couple things that were pretty good, but a lot of it was that general bohemian cool-because-it's-artsy stuff that I just don't like much. The service was alright, but they kept bringing things out at different times, which kind of works for the tapas idea, but not so much when you just want your food. And they forgot my order completely. It was an interesting idea, but I can see why it was empty when every other place that night was packed to the gills.
Originally Posted By wingednike "Ohh I wish they would have put Johnny Rockets in DTD - or some other 50's type restaurant..." Johnny Rockets probably won't happen since there's one already open over at the Garden Walk.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>Your dad was in the Drifters? The "Under the Boardwalk" Drifters? I'm assuming he wasn't black, so was he in their show band in a later incarnation? Whatever, that's pretty cool.<<< Yep, he was in the band. The singers - Johnny Moore, Ben E King et al were black, and for contrast, the band were white british. He was with them for 7 years. It is how we ended up living in the UK, they don't give a lot of green cards to musicians.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Johnny Moore (may he rest in piece) was godfather to my brother Danny.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan "Ohh I wish they would have put Johnny Rockets in DTD - or some other 50's type restaurant..." Yes!!! that is exactly what it needs.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Well we used to have it, the Monorail Cafe. And for any 50's fans, if you ever come to DLP, you must try Annette's. Roller Skating Waitresses, chilli dogs, burgers, malts and real cherry coke et al. Plus in the evening they have Elvis imersonators and the like with a hand jive show on the counter.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I hate Elvis impersonators. You would NEVER catch me in a place that had one. LOL.
Originally Posted By juicer I went to DLP and Annette's Diner! It was fun However, it was not cheap - Hamburger, fries and coke - $25! It was tasty though.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo For DLP, that is cheap. And people wonder why I find the Blue Bayou so reasonable.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Yep, he was in the band. The singers - Johnny Moore, Ben E King et al were black, and for contrast, the band were white british. He was with them for 7 years. It is how we ended up living in the UK, they don't give a lot of green cards to musicians.> Now THAT's cool.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Thanks Dabob2, it has been an interesting ride so far. That is partially how I traveled so much as a kid, roadying as a teen for him.
Originally Posted By Westsider I'm curious about a concept raised here. For those who think that the Bush Administration was involved in some vast conspiracy to revise the real unemployment numbers down by several percentage points without anyone from the major media catching on to the scheme, is there a belief that the Obama Administration will unravel this dastardly deed and release more accurate figures? If the purposeful altering of real unemployment figures was actually conceived and accomplished by direct instruction over the last 8 years of the Bush Administration, will Obama's team now make the corrections and begin publishing the "true" higher figures? Or is it believed that Obama will just resign himself to using the cooked up number formulas that Bush created?
Originally Posted By Westsider So are you saying Obama will continue with the Bush ruse and keep the official unemployment rate artificially low? And did all 50 states get in on this act too, agreeing to revise their figures to the Bush formula? Or is this a case of Washington taking the states figures and tweaking them after the fact? But if the states weren't all in on it, again with no notice by the local or national media, wouldn't that have impacted the money they receive from the Feds for welfare programs and unemployment benefits? What would a state like Ohio or Michigan, with a high unemployment rate, gain from playing along? Versus a state with a very low unemployment rate like Massachusetts, traditionally very Democratic, that would benefit politically from embarassing the Bush Administration over the last 8 years? I'm just trying to make sense of the assertion that Bush and the DC machine have been manipulating unemployment figures beyond use for the past 8 years. It it's true, what will Obama do about it?
Originally Posted By dshyates Here is you answer. Obama HAS revised teh 2008 numbers reflecting the actual situation. And Oh look, from that underground rag called the New York Times: <a href="http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/lost-a-lot-of-jobs-that-never-were/" target="_blank">http://norris.blogs.nytimes.co...er-were/</a>
Originally Posted By dshyates So instead of the 83,000/month Bush reported. The actual number was 147,000/month for 2008 up until Sept. When the bottom dropped out and the number skyrocketed. So yes Obama IS going to face the truth.
