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Doc Gardner

Posted 2008-10-13 5:53 AM (#20348)

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Subject: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

the old movies and serials.
When I was a kid I remember Don Winslow of the Coast Guard. So when I saw one of our members of the BBS with that name it triggered those memories so I looked it up and learned, or maybe re-learned, that Don Winslow was in both the Navy and the Coast Guard. Anybody else remember that stuff?
Maybe Crystal can come up with some of those old videos.

Edited by Doc Gardner 2008-10-13 2:23 PM

Runner485

Posted 2008-10-13 7:22 AM (#20354 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

Boy that name sure rang a few bells in my memory banks. But just can't place what it was associated....and the Coast Guard & Navy doesn't help either...HHHmmmmnnn

Ric

Posted 2008-10-13 7:45 AM (#20357 - in reply to #20354)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

Are you thinking, maybe, of Don WILSON, from the Jack Benny show? Don was Jack's announcer on radio and TV. That is what popped into my mind before I realized it was the wrong last name.

Tom Curtis

Posted 2008-10-13 8:12 AM (#20359 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Don Winslow of the Navy/Coast Guard

Wikipedia has a writeup on the movie serial of the '40s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Winslow_of_the_Coast_Guard

dex armstrong

Posted 2008-10-13 8:34 AM (#20361 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

I thought it was Don Winslow of the Navy. Ray "Olgoat" Stone has VHS tapes of several of the complete serials. Back right after WWII, there were two brands of very popular children's shoes Buster Brown (Brown Shoe Company out of St. Louis) and Red Goose shoes....I your Mother bought you Red Goose shoes, they came with a Don Winslow funny book....the sonuvabitches could be cramping your toes and warping your instep but if you got a Don Winslow comic book and got to stick your feet in that fluroscope and see your toe bones, the shoes were perfect. Inventorying your toe bones and checking out how Lt. Winslow was doing outsmarting Nazi spies was all it took to bring you a smile. On radio Don Winslow was brought to you by Ovaltine. Now, will someone sign my qual card? DEX

Tom McNulty

Posted 2008-10-13 10:07 AM (#20364 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

It was a serial that ran in the movies on the Saturday matinee. That was when the kids mostly went to the movies back when. There was a Don Winslow of the Navy and also Coast Guard. I can't remember which came first. They were also on early TV. I never missed it if at all possible. It sure confused my very young mind with the service branch switch. They were good shows either way.

Doc Gardner

Posted 2008-10-13 2:25 PM (#20373 - in reply to #20357)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

Nah, Ric; it was definitely Don Winslow of the Coast Guard and, as I now know, the Navy. Apparently the comic strip, then the serial had him in the Navy first and then the Coast Guard later in the war. I still haven't found the reason for the switch.
I rememember Don Wilson from the Jack Benny show and it wasn't him.

Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2008-10-13 2:39 PM (#20375 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

There you go, bringing up more stuff I can't remember. I have enough problems trying to remember things I should easily remember, and you drag stuff up that I definately can't remember. I'm driving through Sasser the other day, the windshield is dirty, so I pull the washer lever. Nothing happens, I pull it a couple of more times and still nothing. Next thing I know, blue lights in the rearview. The Georgia State Patrol wants to know why I am flashing my high beams. Then it dawns on me, I'm in the Jeep, the washer is on the right. In the Honda the washer is on the left. Oh well, at least I know the washer isn't broke.

Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-10-13 5:49 PM (#20386 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

Walt, you weren't doing this while passing rest areas were ya?

Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2008-10-14 1:59 AM (#20392 - in reply to #20386)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

Rest Area? This is South-West Georgia. Only a bush or a tree would constitute a rest area. No, I was passing through a small town at the time. Why did you ask? Is it something like tapping your foot in a bathroom stall?

Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-10-14 7:03 AM (#20393 - in reply to #20348)

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Subject: RE: Question for Don Winslow and anybody else who remembers

Rumor has it--yeah

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