This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[Hibi]

I should start checking the schedule for Wagon Train. I know one of my channels runs it. A lot of old Hollywood stars appeared in it. Did they ever make it to California at the end of the show?

[jamesjazzguitar]

I should start checking the schedule for Wagon Train. I know one of my channels runs it. A lot of old Hollywood stars appeared in it. Did they ever make it to California at the end of the show?

I believe the wagon train makes it to CA by the end of episode one. If I recall correctly episode two starts with Major Adams, Charlie, and Hawks all taking a boat from San Fran, around the cap of South America, and back to New Orleans. Then they go by stagecoach to St. Louis, meet up with scout Flint, to start the next trip west.

[Hibi]

I should start checking the schedule for Wagon Train. I know one of my channels runs it. A lot of old Hollywood stars appeared in it. Did they ever make it to California at the end of the show?

I believe the wagon train makes it to CA by the end of episode one. If I recall correctly episode two starts with Major Adams, Charlie, and Hawks all taking a boat from San Fran, around the cap of South America, and back to New Orleans. Then they go by stagecoach to St. Louis, meet up with scout Flint, to start the next trip west.

LOL! Are you serious???

[txfilmfan]

I should start checking the schedule for Wagon Train. I know one of my channels runs it. A lot of old Hollywood stars appeared in it. Did they ever make it to California at the end of the show?

MeTV carries it every weekday afternoon and Saturday mornings (the one hour episodes).

[Hibi]

OK. Thanks. I know another station carries it too, but I can't remember. American Family?

[jamesjazzguitar]

I should start checking the schedule for Wagon Train. I know one of my channels runs it. A lot of old Hollywood stars appeared in it. Did they ever make it to California at the end of the show?

I believe the wagon train makes it to CA by the end of episode one. If I recall correctly episode two starts with Major Adams, Charlie, and Hawks all taking a boat from San Fran, around the cap of South America, and back to New Orleans. Then they go by stagecoach to St. Louis, meet up with scout Flint, to start the next trip west.

LOL! Are you serious???

Funny but we were discussing all the classic actors that show up on 50s TV shows like Wagon Train, and yesterday, there was MacDonald Carey playing a Native American who worked for the Union Army. I can't recall a more unauthentic portrayal of a Native American. Carey did his best as it relates to acting, but all they did to make him look like a Native American was put a black long hair wig on his head (which contrasted with his very white skin!).

Now his wife was played by Joy Page (Bulgarian gal in Casablanca), and she had the right look.

[Dargo]

Funny but we were discussing all the classic actors that show up on 50s TV shows like Wagon Train, and yesterday, there was MacDonald Carey playing a Native American who worked for the Union Army. I can't recall a more unauthentic portrayal of a Native American. Carey did his best as it relates to acting, but all they did to make him look like a Native American was put a black long hair wig on his head (which contrasted with his very white skin!).

Now his wife was played by Joy Page (Bulgarian gal in Casablanca), and she had the right look.

Yeah, gotta say he DOES look more like an "Indian" from the subcontinent here than he does an "Indian" from the American Southwest, doesn't he...

[jamesjazzguitar]

Dargo, I would have preferred a photo of Joy Page from that episode.

[Hibi]

Funny but we were discussing all the classic actors that show up on 50s TV shows like Wagon Train, and yesterday, there was MacDonald Carey playing a Native American who worked for the Union Army. I can't recall a more unauthentic portrayal of a Native American. Carey did his best as it relates to acting, but all they did to make him look like a Native American was put a black long hair wig on his head (which contrasted with his very white skin!).

Now his wife was played by Joy Page (Bulgarian gal in Casablanca), and she had the right look.

Yeah, gotta say he DOES look more like an "Indian" from the subcontinent here than he does an "Indian" from the American Southwest, doesn't he...

LMREO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dargo]

Dargo, I would have preferred a photo of Joy Page from that episode.

Your wish is my command here, sir!

And yes, I'd say she does look a little more as if she could pass for a Native American than Mr. Carey did there, alright.

(...though I'll always first think of her as that cute little thing that Bogie saves from the clutches of Claude Rains in that one highly memorable flick)

[Dargo]

OH and btw, and speaking of Macdonald Carey here...

Was THAT guy one of THE most boring actors to ever grace the silver screen as well?!!!

(...I mean, considering the career Kevin Costner has somehow been able to forge, maybe poor Macdonald here was just born too damn EARLY into the world!!!)

LOL

[Swithin]

OH and btw, and speaking of Macdonald Carey here...

Was THAT guy one of THE most boring actors to ever grace the silver screen as well?!!!

(...I mean, considering the career Kevin Costner has somehow been able to forge, maybe poor Macdonald here was just born too damn EARLY into the world!!!)

LOL

Macdonald Carey was the romantic lead in that great Shelley Winters epic, South Sea Sinner (1950). One of the great Oscar oversights was that Shelley wasn't nominated for Best Actress that year (and Liberace for Best Supporting Actor).

[Dargo]

Okay, so maybe the real reason I've always thought Macdonald Carey was "boring" was because he not only looked a lot like the father of all those Catholic kids who grew up across the street from me in Lawndale California and who was a pretty boring guy himself, but maybe also because HIS name was also Carey..."Corky Carey" in his case. Can't remember his actually given name, though.

Saaay, ya know and now that I THINK about it, I THINK I recall one of those Careys over there telling me that their father Corky was indeed related to Macdonald the actor and might've even been his brother. Yep, no kiddin'!

(...but hey, that was a long time ago now, and at THIS age of mine here, the mind is startin' to play little tricks on me now and then, ya know)

[Swithin]

Okay, so maybe the real reason I've always thought Macdonald Carey was "boring" was because he not only looked a lot like the father of all those Catholic kids who grew up across the street from me in Lawndale California and who was a pretty boring guy himself, but maybe also because HIS name was also Carey..."Corky Carey" in his case. Can't remember his actually given name, though.

Saaay, ya know and now that I THINK about it, I THINK I recall one of those Careys over there telling me that their father Corky was indeed related to Macdonald the actor and might've even been his brother. Yep, no kiddin'!

(...but hey, that was a long time ago now, and at THIS age of mine here, the mind is startin' to play little tricks on me now and then, ya know)

To take this segue even a little farther afield, many years ago I saw former NY Governor Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) coming out of Neary's Pub/Restaurant on East 57th Street in Manhattan. I was very sorry to learn that Neary's closed last month, after 57 years. They had the best lima beans I ever had in my life, and a wonderful homey atmosphere presided over by Jimmy Neary.

https://www.nearys.com

[Dargo]

Okay, so maybe the real reason I've always thought Macdonald Carey was "boring" was because he not only looked a lot like the father of all those Catholic kids who grew up across the street from me in Lawndale California and who was a pretty boring guy himself, but maybe also because HIS name was also Carey..."Corky Carey" in his case. Can't remember his actually given name, though.

Saaay, ya know and now that I THINK about it, I THINK I recall one of those Careys over there telling me that their father Corky was indeed related to Macdonald the actor and might've even been his brother. Yep, no kiddin'!

(...but hey, that was a long time ago now, and at THIS age of mine here, the mind is startin' to play little tricks on me now and then, ya know)

To take this segue even a little farther afield, many years ago I saw former NY Governor Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) coming out of Neary's Pub/Restaurant on East 57th Street in Manhattan. I was very sorry to learn that Neary's closed last month, after 57 years. They had the best lima beans I ever had in my life, and a wonderful homey atmosphere presided over by Jimmy Neary.

https://www.nearys.com

And THIS now reminds me (although there ain't no "Carey" comin' up in this true story) but the last time my wife and I were in NYC back in 2016, they ended up closing another one your long established eateries back there and in which we'd dine just a few weeks before they closed for good...



(...man, I tell ya, I just don't know what's happenin' in the world anymore, as back in my old stompin' grounds of L.A. the best chain of Jewish Delis was always Jerry's Deli, and there isn't ONE of 'em left open anymore there either now days...great chicken soup...miss it)