That's me on the right typing. I was the 11pm late news producer back in 1985. Anyone else remember John Firpo and Nancy Jordan anchoring, with Art Barnard on weather and Gary Pishote on sports?
How could a film that included Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift (we'll leave MM out since her acting credentials were fair to poor) written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston be such a failure at the box office?
I was living in L.A. when this movie came out. I was into horse racing and loved to hit the different tracks around the area. I was having a lot of luck too. After I saw this movie, my luck began to change. I hit a few card clubs and was lucky...then not. This movie had a profound effect on me. I saw how gambling was controlling my life. I quit. Just like that. I ended up with enough money to buy new cars, nice clothes, cool vacations, etc. I don't know if anybody else has had a movie make a change in their life, but California Split sure did for me. It was a change for good, too.
Love the early 80's. My kind of goofball humor. Me and a guy from high school used to laugh at these products turned upside-down especially SPAP-OOP. They don't make humor like that anymore.
I lived there from 95 to 2013. It’s gone downhill in so many ways and now it’s way overpriced. Wish I had seen it in its heyday. I used to describe it as a below average city in an above average location. Beautiful area! The trucker, the Sierra, the transition zone from pine forests to high desert..I miss it!
Funny, when I was once visiting Reno I was standing at that bridge looking down at the Truckee River and I saw a big black object going along the bottom. At first I thought it was some kind of strange huge fish, then I realized it was a person in full scuba gear. When I mentioned this to a passerby, he said that the scuba diver was looking for wedding rings that people throw off the bridge after their divorce. That's the first I heard of that custom.
I was born in 1959 and remember traveling to Reno in 1965. My parents just bought a new Cadillac Calais. It didn't have air conditioning. We drove through the Mojave desert with no air 😢. We went to Harrah's for dinner. On the second floor was the restaurant with window's looking out to the street. It's probably all different now.
I was the uploader and forgot about it! I recorded this from an "All My Children" broadcast in August 1984. Greg and Jenny were the Luke and Laura of AMC. Jenny's death was SUPER HEAVY to viewers of the show, and the Hamburger Helper ad was like a cold wet smack in the face! I kept this VHS in my collection and showed it to friends for many years. "Hamburger Helper Helped Her Make A Great Meal"....ugggh!
When I'm not in Berkeley California or Milan Kansas I'm in Reno Nevada I love to go there and do some light drinking and some light sports-betting the problem is as of 2023 I started going there religiously back around 2003 the problem is the gentrification and all The Disappearance of the 1930s 40s and 50s small motels and all the old casinos are gone and now they have rock climbing walls instead of the casinos it's terrible there's only a few main casinos left anyway it's such a nice town
