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She was great in 24, I think Jack had a thing for her....
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‘24’ actress Annie Wersching dead at 45 after battle with cancer
“There is a cavernous hole in the soul of this family today,” Wersching’s husband, actor Stephen Full, told Deadline.
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Didn't think Borg Queens could die, sad...She was great in 24, I think Jack had a thing for her....
‘24’ actress Annie Wersching dead at 45 after battle with cancer
“There is a cavernous hole in the soul of this family today,” Wersching’s husband, actor Stephen Full, told Deadline.
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Lisa Loring, Wednesday Addams Actress, Dead at 64
Loring starred on the original series running from 1964 to 1966. Lisa Loring, Wednesday Addams Actress, Dead at 64 Alex Young
Lisa Loring, best known for her role as Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family, has passed away at the age of 64.
Loring starred as Wednesday, the dark and macabre daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams, on the original Addams Family TV series, which ran for 64 episodes between 1964 and 1966. She later reprised her role in the 1977 television movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family.
Loring’s other credits included reoccurring roles on As the World Turns and Barnaby Jones, as well as cameos on The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Fantasy Island. Her last on-screen credit came in the 2015 film Doctor Spine.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Loring died Saturday, January 28th, due to complications from a stroke.
Current Wednesday Addams actress Jenna Ortega recently honored Loring on the first season of Netflix’s Wednesday by incorporating her shuffle dance into her own dance scene. “I paid homage to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams. I did a little bit of her shuffle that she does,” Ortega explained in a recent interview.
Hall of Famer Hull, the Golden Jet, dies at 84
Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull has died at the age of 84, the Chicago Blackhawks announced Monday.
Another one pushing up daisies, Cindy Williams!!
LOS ANGELES — Cindy Williams, who played sweet, wide-eyed Shirley Feeney on the “Happy Days” spinoff “Laverne & Shirley,” has died. She was 75.
Williams died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released Monday to the Associated Press through a family spokeswoman.
LOS ANGELES — Cindy Williams, who played sweet, wide-eyed Shirley Feeney on the “Happy Days” spinoff “Laverne & Shirley,” has died. She was 75.
Williams died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released Monday to the Associated Press through a family spokeswoman.
An iconic photo from "The Original Six Era" of Hull w/Mikita...Hall of Famer Hull, the Golden Jet, dies at 84
Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull has died at the age of 84, the Chicago Blackhawks announced Monday.www.espn.com
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‘Top’ Topham, First Lead Guitarist With The Yardbirds, Dies At 75
His death came less than two weeks after the passing of one of his successors in the group, Jeff Beck.
Debated where to put this, but it seemed to fit in her, as many iconic parts of our lives are slipping away. My first trip on a 747 was right after Pan Am started flying them to Italy in 1970. Dad worked for Pan Am then and he got my on First Class flying over to Rome from JFK. Back then there was a piano bar lounge upstairs for the 1st Class passengers, just crazy. I wandered up there and there were a bunch of folks playing poker and the pot was well over $100, a little rich for a HS student, but I drank a lot on the flight...
pressherald.com/2023/01/31/boeing-bids-farewell-to-an-icon-delivers-last-747-jumbo-jet/
By GENE JOHNSON January 31, 2023
The final Boeing 747 lands at Paine Field following a test flight on Tuesday in Everett, Wash. The first 747 entered service in 1970 on Pan Am’s New York-London route and Delta was the last U.S. airline to use the model for passenger flights, which ended in 2017. Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times via AP
SEATTLE — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet.
Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, a transport for NASA’s space shuttles, and the Air Force One presidential aircraft. It revolutionized travel, connecting international cities that had never before had direct routes and helping democratize passenger flight.
But over about the past 15 years, Boeing and its European rival Airbus have introduced more profitable and fuel efficient wide-body planes, with only two engines to maintain instead of the 747′s four. The final plane is the 1,574th built by Boeing in the Puget Sound region of Washington state.
A big crowd of current and former Boeing workers is expected for the final send-off. The last one is being delivered to cargo carrier Atlas Air.
“If you love this business, you’ve been dreading this moment,” said longtime aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia. “Nobody wants a four-engine airliner anymore, but that doesn’t erase the tremendous contribution the aircraft made to the development of the industry or its remarkable legacy.”
Boeing set out to build the 747 after losing a contract for a huge military transport, the C-5A. The idea was to take advantage of the new engines developed for the transport – high-bypass turbofan engines, which burned less fuel by passing air around the engine core, enabling a farther flight range – and to use them for a newly imagined civilian aircraft.
It took more than 50,000 Boeing workers less than 16 months to churn out the first 747 – a Herculean effort that earned them the nickname, “The Incredibles.” The jumbo jet’s production required the construction of a massive factory in Everett, north of Seattle – the world’s largest building by volume.
Among those in attendance on Tuesday was Desi Evans, 92, who joined Boeing at its factory in Renton, south of Seattle, in 1957 and went on to spend 38 years at the company before retiring. One day in 1967, his boss told him he’d be joining the 747 program in Everett – the next morning.
“They told me, ‘Wear rubber boots, a hard hat and dress warm, because it’s a sea of mud,'” Evans recalled. “And it was – they were getting ready for the erection of the factory.”
He was assigned as a supervisor to help figure out how the interior of the passenger cabin would be installed and later oversaw crews that worked on sealing and painting the planes.
“When that very first 747 rolled out, it was an incredible time,” he said as he stood before the last plane, parked outside the factory. “You felt elated – like you’re making history. You’re part of something big, and it’s still big, even if this is the last one.”
The plane’s fuselage was 225 feet long and the tail stood as tall as a six-story building. The plane’s design included a second deck extending from the cockpit back over the first third of the plane, giving it a distinctive hump and inspiring a nickname, the Whale. More romantically, the 747 became known as the Queen of the Skies.
Some airlines turned the second deck into a first-class cocktail lounge, while even the lower deck sometimes featured lounges or even a piano bar. One decommissioned 747, originally built for Singapore Airlines in 1976, has been converted into a 33-room hotel near the airport in Stockholm.
“It was the first big carrier, the first widebody, so it set a new standard for airlines to figure out what to do with it, and how to fill it,” said Guillaume de Syon, a history professor at Pennsylvania’s Albright College who specializes in aviation and mobility. “It became the essence of mass air travel: You couldn’t fill it with people paying full price, so you need to lower prices to get people onboard. It contributed to what happened in the late 1970s with the deregulation of air travel.”
The first 747 entered service in 1970 on Pan Am’s New York-London route, and its timing was terrible, Aboulafia said. It debuted shortly before the oil crisis of 1973, amid a recession that saw Boeing’s employment fall from 100,800 employees in 1967 to a low of 38,690 in April 1971. The “Boeing bust” was infamously marked by a billboard near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport that read, “Will the last person leaving SEATTLE – Turn out the lights.”
An updated model – the 747-400 series – arrived in the late 1980s and had much better timing, coinciding with the Asian economic boom of the early 1990s, Aboulafia said. He recalled taking a Cathay Pacific 747 from Los Angeles to Hong Kong as a twentysomething backpacker in 1991.
“Even people like me could go see Asia,” Aboulafia said. “Before, you had to stop for fuel in Alaska or Hawaii and it cost a lot more. This was a straight shot – and reasonably priced.”
Delta was the last U.S. airline to use the 747 for passenger flights, which ended in 2017, although some other international carriers continue to fly it, including the German airline Lufthansa.
Atlas Air ordered four 747-8 freighters early last year, with the final one leaving the factory Tuesday.
Boeing’s roots are in the Seattle area, and it has assembly plants in Washington state and South Carolina. The company announced in May that it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, putting its executives closer to key federal government officials and the Federal Aviation Administration, which certifies Boeing passenger and cargo planes.
Boeing’s relationship with the FAA has been strained since deadly crashes of its best-selling plane, the 737 Max, in 2018 and 2019. The FAA took nearly two years – far longer than Boeing expected – to approve design changes and allow the plane back in the air.
Boeing bids farewell to an icon, delivers last 747 jumbo jet
pressherald.com/2023/01/31/boeing-bids-farewell-to-an-icon-delivers-last-747-jumbo-jet/By GENE JOHNSON January 31, 2023
The final Boeing 747 lands at Paine Field following a test flight on Tuesday in Everett, Wash. The first 747 entered service in 1970 on Pan Am’s New York-London route and Delta was the last U.S. airline to use the model for passenger flights, which ended in 2017. Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times via AP
SEATTLE — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet.
Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, a transport for NASA’s space shuttles, and the Air Force One presidential aircraft. It revolutionized travel, connecting international cities that had never before had direct routes and helping democratize passenger flight.
But over about the past 15 years, Boeing and its European rival Airbus have introduced more profitable and fuel efficient wide-body planes, with only two engines to maintain instead of the 747′s four. The final plane is the 1,574th built by Boeing in the Puget Sound region of Washington state.
A big crowd of current and former Boeing workers is expected for the final send-off. The last one is being delivered to cargo carrier Atlas Air.
“If you love this business, you’ve been dreading this moment,” said longtime aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia. “Nobody wants a four-engine airliner anymore, but that doesn’t erase the tremendous contribution the aircraft made to the development of the industry or its remarkable legacy.”
Boeing set out to build the 747 after losing a contract for a huge military transport, the C-5A. The idea was to take advantage of the new engines developed for the transport – high-bypass turbofan engines, which burned less fuel by passing air around the engine core, enabling a farther flight range – and to use them for a newly imagined civilian aircraft.
It took more than 50,000 Boeing workers less than 16 months to churn out the first 747 – a Herculean effort that earned them the nickname, “The Incredibles.” The jumbo jet’s production required the construction of a massive factory in Everett, north of Seattle – the world’s largest building by volume.
Among those in attendance on Tuesday was Desi Evans, 92, who joined Boeing at its factory in Renton, south of Seattle, in 1957 and went on to spend 38 years at the company before retiring. One day in 1967, his boss told him he’d be joining the 747 program in Everett – the next morning.
“They told me, ‘Wear rubber boots, a hard hat and dress warm, because it’s a sea of mud,'” Evans recalled. “And it was – they were getting ready for the erection of the factory.”
He was assigned as a supervisor to help figure out how the interior of the passenger cabin would be installed and later oversaw crews that worked on sealing and painting the planes.
“When that very first 747 rolled out, it was an incredible time,” he said as he stood before the last plane, parked outside the factory. “You felt elated – like you’re making history. You’re part of something big, and it’s still big, even if this is the last one.”
The plane’s fuselage was 225 feet long and the tail stood as tall as a six-story building. The plane’s design included a second deck extending from the cockpit back over the first third of the plane, giving it a distinctive hump and inspiring a nickname, the Whale. More romantically, the 747 became known as the Queen of the Skies.
Some airlines turned the second deck into a first-class cocktail lounge, while even the lower deck sometimes featured lounges or even a piano bar. One decommissioned 747, originally built for Singapore Airlines in 1976, has been converted into a 33-room hotel near the airport in Stockholm.
“It was the first big carrier, the first widebody, so it set a new standard for airlines to figure out what to do with it, and how to fill it,” said Guillaume de Syon, a history professor at Pennsylvania’s Albright College who specializes in aviation and mobility. “It became the essence of mass air travel: You couldn’t fill it with people paying full price, so you need to lower prices to get people onboard. It contributed to what happened in the late 1970s with the deregulation of air travel.”
The first 747 entered service in 1970 on Pan Am’s New York-London route, and its timing was terrible, Aboulafia said. It debuted shortly before the oil crisis of 1973, amid a recession that saw Boeing’s employment fall from 100,800 employees in 1967 to a low of 38,690 in April 1971. The “Boeing bust” was infamously marked by a billboard near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport that read, “Will the last person leaving SEATTLE – Turn out the lights.”
An updated model – the 747-400 series – arrived in the late 1980s and had much better timing, coinciding with the Asian economic boom of the early 1990s, Aboulafia said. He recalled taking a Cathay Pacific 747 from Los Angeles to Hong Kong as a twentysomething backpacker in 1991.
“Even people like me could go see Asia,” Aboulafia said. “Before, you had to stop for fuel in Alaska or Hawaii and it cost a lot more. This was a straight shot – and reasonably priced.”
Delta was the last U.S. airline to use the 747 for passenger flights, which ended in 2017, although some other international carriers continue to fly it, including the German airline Lufthansa.
Atlas Air ordered four 747-8 freighters early last year, with the final one leaving the factory Tuesday.
Boeing’s roots are in the Seattle area, and it has assembly plants in Washington state and South Carolina. The company announced in May that it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, putting its executives closer to key federal government officials and the Federal Aviation Administration, which certifies Boeing passenger and cargo planes.
Boeing’s relationship with the FAA has been strained since deadly crashes of its best-selling plane, the 737 Max, in 2018 and 2019. The FAA took nearly two years – far longer than Boeing expected – to approve design changes and allow the plane back in the air.
Ah Narita, I used to call it "Land of the Giants". Did you ever notice the 747 Plane Wash there?
I've flown from ORD to NAR in every class on a 747 from 1st to "Back of the Boat". In the late 80s, TWA first class seats didn't have electric footrests, you had to fold them out. Was a but funny & old school, but plenty comfortable...
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The Courier & Press
Louise Harrison was partially responsible for the first time a Beatle performed in America. And it took place in Southern Illinois.
In September 1963, she invited her brother George Harrison to visit her at her home in Benton, Illinois. He and John Lennon and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were already huge stars in their native England, where songs like "Love Me Do," "Please Please Me" and – biggest of all – "She Loves You" had fans stalking them through the streets.
But they hadn't hit it big in the U.S. yet, and George needed a place to relax. He thought a small Midwestern town would be a good place for a vacation.
He, Louise and their brother Peter hiked through Garden of the Gods and went to George's first drive-in movie. The Beatle even bought a Rickenbacker guitar while he was in town, and one night, at the Eldorado VFW, he hopped on stage to play a few tunes with local band The Four Vests.
Louise Harrison was partially responsible for the first time a Beatle performed in America. And it took place in Southern Illinois.
In September 1963, she invited her brother George Harrison to visit her at her home in Benton, Illinois. He and John Lennon and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were already huge stars in their native England, where songs like "Love Me Do," "Please Please Me" and – biggest of all – "She Loves You" had fans stalking them through the streets.
But they hadn't hit it big in the U.S. yet, and George needed a place to relax. He thought a small Midwestern town would be a good place for a vacation.
He, Louise and their brother Peter hiked through Garden of the Gods and went to George's first drive-in movie. The Beatle even bought a Rickenbacker guitar while he was in town, and one night, at the Eldorado VFW, he hopped on stage to play a few tunes with local band The Four Vests.
"Everyone was dancing to the music," Louise's friend, Daryl Chady, told the Southern Illinoisan in 1995. "When George Harrison got up to play, we all stopped and watched him because he was such a good guitar player. We really did not have any idea who he was. I'm not even sure they mentioned the word 'Beatles.'"
A few months later, the Beatles were a sensation. Their appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" changed popular music forever, and they went on to become the biggest band in history. And the first time any of them ever performed in the U.S. was at an unassuming club in Southern Illinois.
It all happened because of Louise Harrison. She died Monday at a Florida nursing home, friends announced on her Facebook page. She was 91.
(I see the resemblance)
But one took notice. One afternoon, Louise carted a stack of records to WFRX in West Frankfort, Illinois, and handed them over to a teenager named Marcia Schaefer.
"Marcia became a big fan and the first deejay in the U.S. to play Beatle records regularly," the Evansville Press wrote in a 1964 profile of Louise. "And when George came to the U.S., she was one of the first people he met."
Former Tri-State resident and Beatles sister Louise Harrison dies at 91
Louise Harrison was partially responsible for the first time a Beatle performed in America. And it took place in Southern Illinois.
In September 1963, she invited her brother George Harrison to visit her at her home in Benton, Illinois. He and John Lennon and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were already huge stars in their native England, where songs like "Love Me Do," "Please Please Me" and – biggest of all – "She Loves You" had fans stalking them through the streets.
But they hadn't hit it big in the U.S. yet, and George needed a place to relax. He thought a small Midwestern town would be a good place for a vacation.
He, Louise and their brother Peter hiked through Garden of the Gods and went to George's first drive-in movie. The Beatle even bought a Rickenbacker guitar while he was in town, and one night, at the Eldorado VFW, he hopped on stage to play a few tunes with local band The Four Vests.
Louise Harrison was partially responsible for the first time a Beatle performed in America. And it took place in Southern Illinois.
In September 1963, she invited her brother George Harrison to visit her at her home in Benton, Illinois. He and John Lennon and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were already huge stars in their native England, where songs like "Love Me Do," "Please Please Me" and – biggest of all – "She Loves You" had fans stalking them through the streets.
But they hadn't hit it big in the U.S. yet, and George needed a place to relax. He thought a small Midwestern town would be a good place for a vacation.
He, Louise and their brother Peter hiked through Garden of the Gods and went to George's first drive-in movie. The Beatle even bought a Rickenbacker guitar while he was in town, and one night, at the Eldorado VFW, he hopped on stage to play a few tunes with local band The Four Vests.
"Everyone was dancing to the music," Louise's friend, Daryl Chady, told the Southern Illinoisan in 1995. "When George Harrison got up to play, we all stopped and watched him because he was such a good guitar player. We really did not have any idea who he was. I'm not even sure they mentioned the word 'Beatles.'"
A few months later, the Beatles were a sensation. Their appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" changed popular music forever, and they went on to become the biggest band in history. And the first time any of them ever performed in the U.S. was at an unassuming club in Southern Illinois.
It all happened because of Louise Harrison. She died Monday at a Florida nursing home, friends announced on her Facebook page. She was 91.
(I see the resemblance)
Louise Harrison's life
According to her 2014 autobiography "My Kid Brother's Band ... a.k.a. The Beatles," she moved to the U.S. in the late 1950s. Her first husband was an engineer who found work with a string of coal companies. That eventually landed them in Benton, where Louise worked tirelessly to promote The Beatles to clueless American radio DJs.But one took notice. One afternoon, Louise carted a stack of records to WFRX in West Frankfort, Illinois, and handed them over to a teenager named Marcia Schaefer.
"Marcia became a big fan and the first deejay in the U.S. to play Beatle records regularly," the Evansville Press wrote in a 1964 profile of Louise. "And when George came to the U.S., she was one of the first people he met."
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She looks like him.
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definately
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