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Post by Gomez' echo on May 30, 2006 3:49:30 GMT -8
The year-1960. Location-your living room This comes on your B&W television: A) Name the series. B) Name a star or a character name. C) Name the brand of dive gear used. That's it.
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Post by Broxton Carol on May 30, 2006 8:10:39 GMT -8
Hey simonbeans, dig those cool harness! I dont remember that show, but recognise the actors. I suppose it was about vintage diving? How cum those guys are in COLOR when it was a black and white show?
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on May 30, 2006 8:42:44 GMT -8
A) Name the series: The Aquanauts/Malibu Run? B) Name a star or a character name: Larry Lahr (Jeremy Slate)? C) Name the brand of dive gear used: Sportsways? There's a Scubaboard message asking whether "Anybody remember Larry Lahr and Mike Madison of "The Aquanauts" (1960) TV series? Swinging Malibu bachelors using Sportsways single hose regs!"
I managed to get hold of the above information via an online search, I don't think the series ever ran in the UK, and in any case, my family didn't own a TV, either monochrome or colour, until the late 1960s!
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Post by duckbill on May 30, 2006 12:27:04 GMT -8
Wow! Look how high he is wearing his tank! He must have a hole in the back of his head to dive it that way!
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Post by Gomez' echo on May 30, 2006 15:01:55 GMT -8
DavidRitchieWilson is correct!!! The show was originally The Aquanauts. Professional salvage divers Larry Lahr (played by Jeremy Slate) and Drake Andrews (Keith Larsen was the actor) (later replaced by Mike Madison played by Ron Ely) made their livings braving the dangers of the deep recovering sunken wrecks off the Southern California coast. Frequently, these assignments brought them into conflict with more human dangers from people who wanted to reach the wrecks first, or who had a vested interest in seeing that what had been sent to the bottom stayed there. Midway through the program's run, the divers moved their shop to Malibu, and name of the show became "Malibu Run". They used Sportsways gear. The show was B & W on my TV, and is listed as that also on this web site: www.imdb.com/title/tt0053481/The reason I have this image in Color was because I have a 15-cent Dell comic (#1197) which shows the Sportsways Orange harness and Drake Andrew's Yellow trimmed wet suit. I am sure this was made this way to differentiate the two characters in the underwater scenes. Nice job DRW. Batter up!!!
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on May 30, 2006 20:37:17 GMT -8
Thanks, Simonbeans!
I'm going to set a question about vintage fins again. These models were manufactured during the 1950s and 1960s in countries other than the United States. I gather most members of this forum live in the US, so I'll try to make the question a little easier to answer by asking simply in the first instance for each model's country of manufacture, although it would be good too, as a bonus, to have the manufacturer's identity as well.
Bonito Clubmaster Continental Cortez Record Sea King
I'll supply extra clues as seems necessary as we go along. I don't know how helpful the Web will be this time as I'm basing the question on my own collection of catalogues which others may not have access to, but hey - here's an opportunity for a bit of guesswork too. Sorry there won't be any images - I don't have access to a scanner or camera.
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Post by Broxton Carol on May 31, 2006 11:25:37 GMT -8
Hi David. I see you live at newcastle on tyne. I was there when they hauled that german submarine full of gold and becks beer out of the river there. Who ended up with the gold? Who got the beer? When I was over there in your country about 20 years ago, i went into a little joint over by the ocean, and ordered some of that great NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE which is this vintage divers favourite, next to VOLL DAMM from Spain. It is a mile better than the trash they call beer over here. I gave up drinking beer 15 years ago because I was doing too much of it. Now I only nip "old Hawk" the mixture that never leaves a headache. 103% PURE!
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on May 31, 2006 12:23:20 GMT -8
Hi, Broxton Chuck!
Strange, I don't recall the German submarine incident you mention. I expect any salvaged gold would have been claimed by the Crown or the Treasury, although the salvagers would have been compensated. We're not allowed to own gold bars here in the UK.
As for the beer, I'm just trying to remember whether lager had become popular twenty years ago. Newcastle Brown Ale is nicknamed "Journey into Space" round here because of its strength. I was amazed when I saw it being advertised during one of my visits to Minneapolis, where my brother lives, but I guess these days all sorts of beers, e.g. the Australian lager Fosters, are being franchised across the world. I have to say I don't mind the American lagers, which I drink during the summers I'm States-side as it gets so hot I'll drink anything cold and wet to quench my thirst.
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jun 2, 2006 6:57:16 GMT -8
No takers for my quiz question? Well, let's help it along with a clue. One of the following
Bonito Clubmaster Continental Cortez Record Sea King
was manufactured outside of Europe. The others were made in five different European countries. Any idea which countries?
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Post by Gomez' echo on Jun 2, 2006 8:27:09 GMT -8
Cortez was marketed by Nemrod/Seamless so I assume that they are Spanish.
I am working on the others, as I am sure many other trivia fans are.
Keep the faith.
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jun 3, 2006 4:26:32 GMT -8
>Cortez was marketed by Nemrod/Seamless so I assume that they are Spanish.<
Good start: correct manufacturer as well as correct country.
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Post by Broxton Carol on Jun 4, 2006 4:22:49 GMT -8
Hi DAViD! I thought England was okay. The availability of NEWCASTLE BROWN made me want to overstay my visa. I was big into triumph motorcycles 30 years ago. I couldnt find much of anything for a twin over there. More of that stuff was here in the usa. Did those hippies ever get you to ban leaded fuel over there? i remember them handing out flyers in the streets. Idiots! Pratts you call them I seem to remember. I went to the "thames" and that was a big river. I saw off the coast where a german plane was shot down by an eye witness. Also walked feilds where the germans strafed farm animals, and the farmers had do dive into a ditch for safety. Quite an education. You guys have had some tough times over there. I remember in the pub everything was "bloody this and that" Cheers bloke, Chucko
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Post by Gomez' echo on Jun 4, 2006 18:05:08 GMT -8
To get back to the forum topic. I will guess Bonito is Italian and maybe Cressi as a manufacturer. Guessing. Allan
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jun 4, 2006 20:15:41 GMT -8
No, Allan, Italy is certainly one of the four remaining European countries to be identified, but Bonito fins, despite the Italian-sounding name, weren't made in Italy. Bonito fins were full-foot and had a particular feature not found in other full-foot fins. Instead of the normal Cressi Rondine-style toe opening there was a softer-rubber toe cap that could be cut out to allow the toes to protrude.
A little clue, which might help to research this question online, is that the company which made them later made modern-style fins with the names Bonito Open and Bonito Closed. Don't be fooled by the use of English in the name!
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Post by Broxton Carol on Jun 5, 2006 1:46:31 GMT -8
After sitting in the pub and having a few big old newcastle browns, you thought about fins less and less, and started thinking about important stuff like going out and doing some diving!
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