Began the morning with breakfast and "The Band Concert." Mickey Mouse's first color cartoon has him conducting an outdoor concert with Goofy, Horace, Clarabelle, and Peter Pig in the band. Mickey has his hands full with Donald trying to get in on the show with his flute rendition of "Turkey In the Straw," and then a tornado hits as they perform a particularly intense piece and sends the entire band flying everywhere!
Called Uber after the cartoon ended. I'd be meeting Jessa later. He arrived within 10 minutes, and got to work right on time. No traffic anywhere, not at that point.
No trouble at work, either. We were a little busier than yesterday, but nothing crazy. I swept the store and pushed carts with no problems, enjoying the in-and-out sunshine and lower 60's temperatures.
I needed a few things after I changed into regular clothes. Forgot to pick up my heart pressure medication yesterday. I got that, along with more throat drops (my allergies are acting up again) and a bottle of water that was supposed to be a freebie. (And of course, I got the wrong size.)
Jessa picked me up about 10 minutes later. We first went out to lunch at Rexy's, the bar across the Black Horse Pike from the Acme. I don't think either of us were expecting the elegant, rustic heavy wood-and-brass look or the high prices. I figured it would be a dive. I had an individual pear and Gruyere pizza. She had a bowl of corn chowder. Their "individual" pizza was about the size of most places' small pies, and her bowl could have fit three regular ones. We ended up sharing the pizza, and she took half the soup home.
Our original plan for today was to hit the Cherry Hill Mall. That got a check the moment Jessa drove by and we saw the parking lot was packed to the rafters. We'd be lucky to park across the street at the Hillview Shopping Center. Dodged traffic down Route 70 to hit the Pennsauken Goodwill and 2nd Avenue Thrift instead. They were busy, but certainly nothing like the mall. Jessa got nothing at Goodwill. I found a pretty olive blouse with burgundy and gold flowers embroidered on it, a CD, and a book. The CD was:
Sanctuary - The 20th Anniversary of Wyndham Hill 2 disc set
The book was:
Death On the Nile - Agatha Christie
My best find at 2nd Avenue Thrift was a replacement muffin tin. It looked exactly like the muffin tin Craig gave me for Christmas 2016, but in much better shape. I also picked up Broadway's Lost Treasures III still in its original wrapping on DVD (I have the other two and have looked around for the third for ages) and two CDs:
Barry White - The Ultimate Collection
Andersen's Fairy Tales, a collection of Hans Christian Andersen stories read on CD, made by the same company that put out that lovely fairy tale anthology I picked up last year.
After Jessa dropped me off, I finished the night on YouTube with dinner and this week's Saturday marathon. Eva Gabor didn't become a semi-regular on Match Game until 1977, but she would make frequent appearances on the CBS and syndicated run through 1981. Some people on the chat complained that she tended to not interact with the rest of the cast and her Hungarian accent could get annoying. I thought she was funny and adorable, not to mention a real trooper. She lost her toenail when a handsome Naval officer accidentally kicked it off during a nighttime episode, but she still did the next show with her toe on ice.
Eva was probably one of the best-known stars to be a semi-regular during the later CBS and syndicated run. One man said he'd pay $100 for a kiss from her, then only ponied up $10. She was there for the hilarious week with Kukla and Ollie, the only puppets to have ever appeared on the show, and got to see Brett flirt with them and march around the studio. She, Brett, and Elaine Joyce showed off a young man's gorgeous paintings of birds on a syndicated episode. Another of her nighttime episodes was only recently returned to the re-run rotation in 2021...and Gene asking an Asian veteran which side he was in the war may have been part of the reason for its disappearance.
Go from Park Avenue to Television City with the glamour girl of Match Game, dahhling, in this charming and hilarious marathon!
And speaking of charming, here's tonight's Musical Dreams Movie Review, a sweet coming-of-age story Disney put out on its streaming platform in 2020. Look for its sequel, Hollywood Stargirl, next week!
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