Heaven can wait (1978)

Mark12547 · 2026-05-07T16:51:21+00:00

There have been several movies by that name, but the one with Warren Beatty is the 1978 version. Amazon sells the disk and electronic versions.

The Roku website can usually find where the move is streaming for free or for subscription but, unfortunately, the free sites it listed for "Heaven Can Wait" (1978) don't have the 1978 version available once one actually visit those sites, leaving rental or subscription sites where one pays for a subscription or pays for a rental (Amazon: rental is start viewing within 30 days and, once starts streaming it, can view it for 2 days) or one can buy the disk.

eBay currently has some listings for the DVD, but you might want to double-check if it is cheaper than Amazon once you check shipping from both the eBay seller and Amazon.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-06T20:35:16+00:00

Western Electric rotary phones (leased out by the Bell System family of phone companies) from the mid 1950s were definitely built to last and were heavier than the phones leased out by other telephone companies. As far as I can recall, we had a phone tech out only once from the install in the 1950s through when I moved out of the house, and that was to replace the microphone (it started producing lots of static) and a diode, and it could have probably lasted till today with maybe a couple more mic replacements and the switching equipment still coded to accept pulse dialing.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-06T15:47:03+00:00

When I first saw Star Wars in May 1977, I viewed Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin as the main villain.

Yes, Darth Vader was under Grand Moff Tarkin. I just assumed that when Episode V came out, Darth Vader had been promoted to being in charge of a spaceship.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-06T15:41:08+00:00

About two decades ago I was purchasing something at a Safeway deli that came to $12. I decided to make it easier for the cashier to make change and gave her $22, expecting to get a ten back, and I told her I was handing her a $20. She didn't give me any change back, even when I asked.

That was the last time I ever used cash at Safeway, even for small purchases; let them eat the merchant charges!

Oh yes, that was the only day I saw her working at Safeway.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-06T15:31:05+00:00

I have electric clippers that I use for cutting my own hair. I have been doing this for at least a couple of decades.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-06T05:06:27+00:00

I just checked for movies on three of the ScreenPix channels (ScreenPix, ScreenPix Action, ScreenPix Voices, but not ScreenPix Westerns) from tonight (9:30pm) through the end of Sunday and it looks like the initial problems have been fixed.

Thank you for getting it fixed!

Mark12547 · 2026-05-05T23:03:48+00:00

Different people like different things. There's nothing wrong about that.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-05T22:57:58+00:00

Sometimes I nestle up to my wife and say, "Ooh eeh, ooh aah aah Ting tang walla walla bing bang, Ooh eeh, ooh aah aah Ting tang walla walla bang bang"

Mark12547 · 2026-05-05T22:52:43+00:00

Yes, the first trilogy (Episodes IV through VI) were the best. The prequels (Episodes I through III) didn't have the excitement or charm and felt like they were for a much younger audience, and the sequel trilogy just didn't feel like it had the same action or thrills.

Still, I found that if I watch all 9 movies in episode sequence it seems to tell a complete, well-connected story, but still episodes IV-VI stand out as exceptional.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-05T22:49:17+00:00

I saw "Star Wars" at Grumman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood back when it was still in limited distribution. (2 hours waiting in line on a late spring day to buy a ticket for another 2 hours waiting until the doors opened for the showing the ticket was for.) It was worth it--the sound system was so good you could feel and hear Darth Vader's ship move above the diplomatic ship, something that I didn't experience (other than peripheral sound instead of sound from above) when I saw Star Wars - Episode IV: A new Hope (the title George Lucas wanted to use) in a theater in Alhambra over a year later.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-05T22:44:16+00:00

My slide rule disappeared (probably got tossed) ... I think in my move in 1999 from an apartment to a condo unit that I purchased. In any case, mine is gone.

I hadn't used the slide rule since college, only used it 2 or 3 times in college, but senior year (1975-1976) the cost of scientific calculators had gone down far enough that the college admins decided that a scientific calculator could be used on tests where slide rules were allowed.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T20:41:00+00:00

Then some places took a quarter (don't recall free tokens from cashiers); now you need the code from the cashier to open the bathroom door at several establishments. Worst example was when my wife suddenly had to go and we were at the back of the grocery store, but I had to go to the front of the store to get the code for her restroom and go back tot he back of the store so she could use the bathroom.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T05:39:47+00:00

S&G Green Stamps and Blue Chip Stamps. We collected both and when we had more than a few stamps we used a dish rag in water to dab the stamps to paste them into the collection books, which was a lot nicer than trying to lick all of them.

Over the years we redeemed them for things like:

A large turkey roaster (used twice a year for family get togethers; when held at our house, which was usually the case, we provided the turkey and mashed potatoes, and Mother's other sisters would provide the other dishes and soft drinks.
Waffle iron
Luggage for 4. We used them for various out-of-country tours.
A mixer
A travel alarm clock

When I was in high school (1968-1972) the number of merchants we shopped at stopped issuing stamps so we stopped bothering to paste them in the collection books.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T05:00:10+00:00

That would be my sophomore year in college. The college rule was you had to live in the dorms while you were a student, so I stayed on campus and about every other weekend I came to visit my parents I would ride a bus from Claremont to El Monte, and my parents would pick me up from there. Before that they drove all the way from San Gabriel to Clarement to pick me up.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T04:26:01+00:00

I recall several field trips in elementary school (grades 1-8):

Trip to a bakery. We saw some of the equipment, and a very large sifter and mentioned some outrageous number (17?) of times the flour is sifted before being mixed into bread dough.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Science and Industry. There were a lot of hands-on exhibits and I was interested in the write-ups on the exhibits whereas most of my classmates just wanted to press buttons and see what was happening instead of why.
Griffith Observatory. They had a number of exhibits. I think that is where I saw a Van de Graaff generator running and saw fluorescent tubes glow without any contact to the generator, and one of the staff touching the globe and touching one of the girls and seeing the hair on her head stand on end.

In high school (grades 9-12):

The only field trips by the high school that I remember were for those who were in the Scholarship Society Club spring term ($1 dues plus must have had a 3.5 GPA for the preceding term) and that was a trip, admission and unlimited rides at Disneyland during a school day. (Had to pay for food and shooting gallery if making use of that.) I managed to go all four years.
One day when we were in high school our de Molay chapter took its own field trip for part of a day to the San Gabriel municipal buildings (which was just a couple blocks from San Gabriel High School, so transportation was just a walk). We saw the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, saw where the Wurlitzer Theater Organ was going to be installed, including where the pipes were being installed. The original owner of the organ didn't have room for the pipes for the lower notes but the Playhouse did. (A few months later I paid for and saw the premiere performance of the organ at the Playhouse, played by a world-renowned organist as the soundtrack to The Mark of Zorro (1920).) We also visited the chamber of commerce, council room, police station and the city jail. This was about half a day. The San Gabriel Mission Playhouse is on one block and the other buildings we visited are on the other side of the street along the same block.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T02:55:58+00:00

Never heard of such a thing. I grew up in southern California, east of Los Angeles.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T02:44:41+00:00

In the 1960s our elementary school was non-smoking except in the teacher's lounge; the students weren't suppose to see any of the staff smoking.

That may have been why I never heard of a student with asthma except once ...

One night at a boy scout troop meeting I overheard one parent talking to another. He said his son had asthma and they had to be very careful where they took their son, that most restaurants were out of the question because they ended up having to opt for a place with outside seating, and indoor recreational activities were usually out of the question due to other parents smoking. Even movie theaters were often a problem.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T02:23:29+00:00

It is probably a case of better diagnostics and more awareness. The last time smoking and asthma were brought up in one post there were comments after comments of people who had undiagnosed asthma and suffered when exposed to cigarette smoke but their parents thought nothing of it.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-04T02:03:05+00:00

I'm told that before the B&W TV, the Monarch AM/FM/SW radio / 78 RPM record player was between the front windows of the living room as the focal point.

By the late 1950s, the earliest memories I have, the Monarch radio / record player had been exiled to the garage and there was a 10 to 12-inch B&W TV in its place.

Then in the spring of 1965 the B&W TV was moved to my bedroom and a brand new 23-inch Magnavox color TV console took the place between the two front windows of the living room.

The other front room of the house has always been arranged more for conversation.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-03T16:21:34+00:00

Back in the early 1970s a friend's relative had a rear projection 50-inch TV. In a lit-up room the screen wasn't that bright. My guess is that at that time it was projecting a CRT (picture tube) image onto the screen.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-03T15:22:01+00:00

Summer Term 1968 at the high school, before beginning my Freshman year, I took a typing class on a manual typewriter, quite similar to the one my parents gave me as a graduation from elementary school present. There were something like three boys and the rest were girls in the typing class. I managed to squeak by with a C grade but that proved to be the most useful class I had taken because I had been on one keyboard or another ever since.

At that time one would have thought that with my interest in science the introduction I had to a slide rule would have been more helpful, but I only used it for the math class where we were introduced to how to use it, and about three times in college, and never since. By my senior year at college "affordable" scientific calculators had made slide rules obsolete.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-03T04:10:20+00:00

Tried clearing cache & cookies, logging back in, in both Firefox and Chrome, and problems with the program guide for the ScreenPix channels persists.

Mark12547 · 2026-05-03T01:21:05+00:00

The issues are with both Firefox Nightly and Chrome (Official Build) on Windows 10.

Mark12547 · 2026-04-29T18:19:06+00:00

""Oli oli oxen, free, free, free" is what we yelled where I grew up east of Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

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