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12-02-2021 - 16:15

WAF

1. Re: SP sign "Pal Joey "

The big "SP" on 65 Market? Probably not. DJR hated it at the end
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12-02-2021 - 14:29

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2. SP sign "Pal Joey "

Did SP sign in the movie Pal Joey saved or did it throw away?
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11-06-2021 - 10:51

Step by step

3. At 'Answerer' Re: Pal Joey

Answerer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Step by step Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: > > > -
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11-06-2021 - 09:54

Tinfoil Hat Monster

4. Re: Pal Joey

> The thread initially dealt with "Sunday in New York". So what? You're the one who brought up Pal Joey, and you regularly digress off onto all kinds of weird and outlandish tangents. >To what e
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11-05-2021 - 23:44

Trigger

5. Re: Pal Joey

Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> That all depends on whether we're discussing the movie "Sunday in New York" or "Pal Joey". Let me know when you
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11-05-2021 - 23:40

Answerer

6. Re: Pal Joey

Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > That all depends on whether we're discussing the > movie "Sunday in New York" or "Pal Joey". Let me > know wh
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11-05-2021 - 23:34

Answerer

7. Re: Pal Joey

Trigger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > >> It's always fun to point out
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11-05-2021 - 23:28

Answerer

8. Re: Pal Joey

Step by step Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > It's always fun to poin
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11-05-2021 - 23:19

Answerer

9. Re: Pal Joey

Trigger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > >> It's always fun to point out
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11-05-2021 - 22:06

Tinfoil Hat Monster

10. Re: Pal Joey

> That all depends on whether we're discussing the movie "Sunday in New York" or "Pal Joey". Let me know when you can make a decision. Did you read the title of my post? Let me know when you learn
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11-05-2021 - 21:39

Step by step

11. Re: Pal Joey

Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It's always fun to point out mistakes made by > Hollywood. I like the FEC train pretending to be a > NYC trai
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11-05-2021 - 17:41

Trigger

12. Re: Pal Joey

Tinfoil Hat Monster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> It's always fun to point out mistakes made by Hollywood. I like the FEC train pretending to be a NYC train. F
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11-05-2021 - 16:15

Tinfoil Hat Monster

13. Pal Joey

> It's always fun to point out mistakes made by Hollywood. I like the FEC train pretending to be a NYC train. First off, it's an SP train. > The opening scene to "Pal Joey" wasn't bad. The train
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11-05-2021 - 07:53

Trigger

14. Re: Trigger’s grand revelation

Virgil Stiff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> I probably knew fully well that Hollywood is in LA and 90% of movies are filmed there when you were just a glint in yo
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01-15-2020 - 08:06

Ross

15. Re: State Belt RR, 1966

You can see a state belt unit in the 1957 film 'Pal Joey" when Sinatra walks out of the pier terminal. You can't miss that great paint! Nice photo!
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07-30-2016 - 10:00

Ken Shattock (KRK)

16. Re: SC&MB Plans To Return To Santa Cruz This Fall With The Polar Express

Hi WSABO-- There are three technical consultants that assist Greg Scholl in putting together historic railroad videos, especially on Western Pacific, Southern Pacific and West Coast lumber operations
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07-30-2016 - 09:24

wsabo

17. Re: SC&MB Plans To run _licensed_ Polar Express Trains

KRK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Graham Buxton Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Polar Express name Wrote: > > > ------
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07-29-2016 - 23:00

KRK

18. Re: SC&MB Plans To run _licensed_ Polar Express Trains

Graham Buxton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Polar Express name Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Caution: SC&MB needs t
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02-09-2016 - 11:16

Ken Shattock (KRK)

19. Re: 4449 & 4443

Bruce Butler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not knocking 4449 at all - I am a BIG 4449 FAN and > we are lucky to have her. OPERATIONAL, NO > LESS!!! > > But I
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02-09-2016 - 05:50

Ken Shattock (KRK)

20. Re: The Suntan Special (PG-13)

Margaret-- you don't know that info for sure.. They could have made the exchange at San Jose or Watsonville !! It is ironic that one of the photos shows SP 4443 . Evidently it was one of SP's sp
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10-06-2015 - 13:37

John Sweetser

21. Re: Pal Joey - train and ferry scenes

The filming at the Mole for "Pal Joey" was in April of 1957. The Mole was still in use by passenger trains at that time.
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10-04-2015 - 20:58

DCA

22. Regarding the Oakland Mole (aka Oakland Pier)

I lived in Hayward, CA during the last of SP steam, and kept a pencil-written log of every locomotive, steam and diesel, SP and WP, that I was able to get aboard. Most were at the Hayward yards (both
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10-04-2015 - 18:51

Edward

23. Re: Pal Joey - train and ferry scenes

That's quite all right. According to many of the messages here we have many ex-perts.
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10-04-2015 - 18:44

Bill Donnelly

24. Re: Pal Joey - train and ferry scenes

Excuse my error. "pert" should be "part"
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10-04-2015 - 15:33

Bill Donnelly

25. Re: Pal Joey - train and ferry scenes

Why does not the film introduction show the pert that was filmed in Berkeley?
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10-04-2015 - 13:57

Stank

26. Filming Date of Pal Joey

IMDB is saying the movie was released in 1957 so the ferries would've been running then, no?
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10-04-2015 - 10:08

George Andrews

27. Re: Pal Joey -- Previously on AP

The Oakland Mole had already been closed to passenger train use when the scenes were filmed there. ( Notice Sinatra's train was the only one in the train shed. This would have been impossible to do du
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10-04-2015 - 08:56

Negin

28. Re: Pal Joey -- Previously on AP

This forum really needs a different format, like a phpBB type one since old topic get lost. But the history is cool.
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10-04-2015 - 07:57

Alfred Doten

29. Re: Pal Joey -- Previously on AP

That opening scene at University Avenue where Sinatra gets thrown into the vestibule is actually a black widow F unit in the dark with steam sounds dubbed over. Later in the movie Rita Hayworth sings/
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10-03-2015 - 21:03

WebDigger

30. Pal Joey -- Previously on AP

http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/read.php?1,71597,71598#msg-71598 http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion/search.php?1,search=pal+joey,page=1,match_type=PHRASE,match_dates=0,match_forum=ALL
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