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LiberalArkie

(18,240 posts) Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:31 PM Apr 2016

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I'm in a scene in Under Seige EdwardBernays Apr 2016 #1

I think it was with all the helicopters flying down the streets. I remember the state complaining LiberalArkie Apr 2016 #2

Yeah EdwardBernays Apr 2016 #3

Cool Art_from_Ark Apr 2016 #4

I still EdwardBernays Apr 2016 #8

Selling it to Gannett was a big mistake Art_from_Ark Apr 2016 #9

The missile silo explosion near Searcy happened just before the new school year started Art_from_Ark Apr 2016 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Apr 2016 #6

I remember reading about the Sultana Art_from_Ark Apr 2016 #7

EdwardBernays

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1. I'm in a scene in Under Seige

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:47 PM

Apr 2016

As a kid.

Just as an extra. It was a pretty big deal as I remember. Then again I was just a kid.

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LiberalArkie

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2. I think it was with all the helicopters flying down the streets. I remember the state complaining

Reply to EdwardBernays (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 06:53 PM

Apr 2016

about the film company not repairing the capital dome like they were supposed to. I think they used too much explosive..

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EdwardBernays

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3. Yeah

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 07:03 PM

Apr 2016

They "shot" the dome with a round let launcher? Maybe?

I remember all the helicopters.

Much more sentimental to me is White Lightning. I was in Benton as a child in the late 70s/early 80s a fair bit and White Lightning is exactly what I remember of Benton.

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Art_from_Ark

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4. Cool

Reply to EdwardBernays (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:04 PM

Apr 2016

I remember reading about that in the late great Arkansas Gazette.

Around the same time, Tim Curry of Rocky Horror fame was in Eureka Springs filming And Pass the Ammo.

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EdwardBernays

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8. I still

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:37 PM

Apr 2016

Think back at the last day of of Gazette..... Such a sad and stupid end.

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Art_from_Ark

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9. Selling it to Gannett was a big mistake

Reply to EdwardBernays (Reply #8)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:44 PM

Apr 2016

As soon as Gannett took over, service started sucking. I was a subscriber at that time, and I wouldn't get my paper 3 or 4 days each week. I'd have to phone the local office to complain, and sometimes they'd deliver my paper later in the day, and sometimes they wouldn't. Someone would have to be a really dedicated subscriber to put up with that.

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Art_from_Ark

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5. The missile silo explosion near Searcy happened just before the new school year started

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:10 PM

Apr 2016

The closest Arkansas came to a real "duck and cover" emergency was from one of our own missiles!

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Art_from_Ark

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7. I remember reading about the Sultana

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:20 PM

Apr 2016

It was in a book called "Great American Disasters"

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