extreame jobs

[sdlee]

this is prolly the most off topic we can get.

recently I was chatting with a few AW friends and was trying to get a conversation going about people who have more than one career going at a time.THe fact that Front man for the band Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickenson is also an airline pilot is what got me on this thought line.

Does anyone else have or know of people who have stranger sidelines? Make one up if youre creative. Nobody here will check it out. Maybe we can get some laughs.

 

[frigilux]

Nurse/Funeral Director (saw that one on KELO news, sdlee!)

 

[frigilux]

Librarian/Funeral Director (our own drhardee--I hijacked this info from another thread)

 

[oldhouseman]

Not made up, have proof

grew up on a plantation, worked in a funeral home during high school, mortician let me assist as he thought he was training me for a career in his company, army after high school, infantry, sniper for said unit, later a radio operator, assigned to military intelligence unit, back to school,studied history,worked for computer software manufacturer, buyer for hospital and on the side went to tech school and learned to make caps, crowns and dentures as a hobby, finally got a position at an archives as a historian about 9 years back and do classic style portrait (oil)painting as well as landscape and still life, and teach hearth cooking and do book binding and repair as well as paper conservation. I also get cussed for being an arrogant archivist. I am a recognized expert in textiles and food customs. Right now I am restoring a 211 year old house and looking for another hobby to take up. Past and still some time hobbies are playing the violin, trumpet, french horn, baritone and dulcimer. Gardening also.

I know you said jobs but had to throw hobbies in also. Like to dabble in it all except the sniper part. I hunt also but only with a camera these days.

 

[classiccaprice]

Wow, I'm impressed with that one! Greg, check your email.

 

[fa_f3_20]

During the '50s there was a major league baseball player named Moe Berg whose offseason job was... CIA agent!

GM had an engineer by the name of Mauri Rose. Mauri used his two weeks of vacation each year to practice for and race in the Indianapolis 500, which he won three times.

Actress Hedy Lamarr was also an electronics expert. She invented and patented a radio scrambling technique called frequency hopping, which was used for torpedo guidance systems in WWII and is the basis for all of the "spread spectrum" techniques used by cell phone systems and military comm systems today.

Guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who was a member of Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, is also a widely recognized and sought after expert in missle defense systems.

 

[lokringbob]

Now this is an extreame JOB !

Enjoy


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[whirlcool]

Whoops!

The link doesn't work!

 

[eluxomarty]

Singers with licenses

Tammy Wynette was a licensed beautician and Naomi Judd was an RN. They both kept their licenses current throughout their successes "just in case." Naomi mentioned that at Tammy's funeral.

 

[sdlee]

hahahaha.

I knew wed have fun with this one.

Oldhouse, youre hired...I dont know what the job is yet but after that Im sure you will kickass

Heddy Lemar.....hey Lucil ball is credited with commming up with the three part camera angles we see on most TV sitcoms today, (speaking of extreams Ive read she had a horribly sad childhood filled with drunk abusive parents) On a happier note I think I heard once that she had the first in home microwave oven in Hollywood. IF anyone can back me on this info please step up.

Tammy Wynnette and Naomi Judd....Good points. More fasicinating to me about Wynette is that in all her houses from shack to mansions as she climbed she always kept a glass bowl of cotton on the coffee table to remind her of the time that she was looking at a future of cotton picken, to keep her grounded and to remind her of where she came from. Class act as far as Im concerned.

 

[eluxomarty]

3 cameras

sdlee, I'm not sure about the Lucy's microwave but I think it was Desi Arnaz who was credited for developing the 3 camera angles for sitcoms.

Marty

 

[whirlcool]

And not only was it Desi Arnaz who came up with the 3 camera shots, but he also insisted on putting "I Love Lucy" on film rather than kinescope as was the fashion at the time. When the studio balked, he purchased the film himself. Because of this he actually owned the film to the series. It made him a very rich man!
If he hadn't done this, I Love Lucy wouldn't be seen today!

 

[appliguy]

CBS was the ones that did not want I Love Lucy filmed using

Desi and Lucy wanted to do the show from LA but CBS insisted they do it from New York live. At that time, (early 1951) The AT&T microwave relay system for coast to coast tv was not completed yet. Desi Told the head of CBS that He and Lucy were not leaving their Chatrsworth Ca. home to go to NYC to which Willaim Paley (the of CBS) replied I am not buying this show so 20% of the viewing audience can view it clearly and the other 80% that was located in the mid west and east can see it through cheese cloth, that is what a kinescope copy looked like. Actually how the process was accomplished was very simple a 16 milimeter film camera recorded live broadcasts of a tv screen (FYI the technical name for a tv set picture tube is Kinescope). Anyway so I love Lucy almost never happened but Desi came up with the idea of using film. and the rest is history.

FYI: SDLEE: you might want to do a little more research on Lucille Ball....her father Henry Durell Ball died of typhoid when she was 3 and her mother Dee Dee WAS NOT AN alcoholic that was here step dad Ed Petersen. She did have tragedy in her life as you stated but it is to much for me to go into here...so I will say this...go to the library and get her autobigraphy which will take from the begininng of her life until 1962. It is called Love Lucy.

If you guys cannot guess I really do Love Lucy PAT COFFEY

 

[appliguy]

I forgot to mention...

Lucy and Desi originally wanted to do the show live every other week so Lucy could keep her movie career going. Remember at that time TV was brand new and a lot of people thought it might turn out to be just a fad. PAT COFFEY

 

[appliguy]

Oops one last thing Desi did not orignate the 3 camera idea.

It was done on a live tv show as early as 1948 but I Love Lucy was the first time it ahd been done on film or on a tv show where people moved around. PAT COFFEY

 

[laundromat]

Hey Pat,

I LOVE LUCY too!!!!I have an entire room at home that is full of I love Lucy memorobilia.I have signed photos,every ILL episode on dvd and vct. I had the refrigerator,roaster and dishes on ILL. and all the current dolls,porcelain plates and some of the globes.My shower curtain,towels and rugs in my bath are the ones with the VitaMeataVegaMin episode photo on them.I have 7 of the picture plates in my kitchen with a cookie jar,napkin holder and salt and pepper shakers.

 

[appliguy]

Laundromat....

When was there ever a Westinghouse Roaster on I Love Lucy??? I sure don't remember seeing it? PAT COFFEY

 

[xyz]

Satchel Paige threw a 107 MPH fastball at the age of 65.

 

[sdlee]

Hey there guys......in my thread I did ask for back up either right or wrong.

Unlike you all Im not that big of a Lucy fan (not meaning that I dont like her or Desi) I just dont carry the passion you guys do.

My info about her abused childhood was something I heard on Paul Harvey. The question was guess which well known celebrity was tied to a clothes line while her parents (real ones or step he didnt say) were known to party. When the show came back on the radio the answer was Lucill Ball.There was consequent follow up story,at 11 I doubt that I paid much attention to the details.

Now please dont think Im a Paul harvey fan either as I only listened to him out of the corner of my ear when my mom, a dedicated fan had him on the radio.

The microwave story comes from a picture in my high school home ec cook book, we were all amazed to see it and this was a modern book for its time and when I was there very few people had yet to get one or be able to afford one.In my own family only one aunt and uncle had one.

Let me tell you the picture of the Arnezes clad in aprons around that thing was funny. It took up a LOT of room.
Dont ask me which cookbook it was, I couldnt tell you. It was school issue but I know you hardcore fans will be hounding me for the info. Unless ofcorse you already HAVE the picture and cook book in which case you could post it.

I might go to to the library and get her life story. Like I said Im not that big of a fan but I do like rags to riches stories and do like to know about celbrities( how they got where they got). I also like to see how people who were in terible predictaments get themselves out. So maybe I will,sounds enjoyable.Thanks again, I dont want to say for a correction but for the heads up rather.