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[LincolnToddFan]

I mostly avoid alcohol because I really dislike the taste, but I do love an occasional pitcher of frozen daiquiris on a hot summer evening!

As for the Lincoln's no liquor rule, what about elaborate State dinners in the WH? Surely they must have served champagne and other spirits at those?

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(07-23-2014 07:24 PM)ReignetteC Wrote:  How about the drive-in movie theater? I remember seeing "Planet of the Apes" starring Charlton Heston at the drive in. I think they faded away in the late '70s.

LOL!! My Dad was a big sci-fi freak and had read the best-selling book "Planet of the Apes" in the late 1960's. He was stuck baby sitting us four kids on the night it came to the local drive-in...mom was at work. He was determined to see the film so he threw us into the back seat and off we went to the drive-in one fine evening in 1969 in Columbus, OH.

We kids laughed, giggled and snickered in the backseat throughout the entire movie. I became hysterical every time Zara and Cornelius(the lover apes) would kiss. I think Kim Hunter played Zara? Anyway, my father was totally into it and he was furious with us for laughing...kept threatening to ground us and worse but we couldn't help it, it was a hoot to us!

The Planet of the Apes has become a huge moneymaking franchise in the 40+ years since the original one. I saw the latest one just last week, but for all the high tech wizardry they use for the apes now, nothing beats when they had human actors in the ape roles.

Wow..you folks are dredging up some good old happy memories!