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And also see:
<url> https://moviechat.org/tt0056606/Tower-of-London/58c724625ec57f0478ed7087/The-Child-Princes-Possible-Spoilers </url>
<url>https://moviechat.org/tt0053145/The-Oregon-Trail/58c723465ec57f0478ec8e10/Unusually-violent-for-its-time?reply=5df2aae50f4972294272832c </url>
https://moviechat.org/tt0052611/The-Giant-Behemoth/58c706b84e1cf308b937c223/A-Grim-Aspect-of-this-Film?reply=5df2aa2d0f49722942728320
See here:
<url>https://moviechat.org/tt0056606/Tower-of-London/58c724625ec57f0478ed7087/The-Child-Princes-Possible-Spoilers?reply=5df2aa640f49722942728325&animate=false </url>
and here:
<url>https://moviechat.org/tt0052611/The-Giant-Behemoth/58c706b84e1cf308b937c223/A-Grim-Aspect-of-this-Film?reply=5df2aa2d0f49722942728320&animate=false </url>
And: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0044205/Westward-the-Women/58c705094e1cf308b93637c3/Two-questions-about-the-Italian-boy-MAJOR-SPOILER?reply=5df2b1720f49722942728362&animate=false </url>
And see here:
<url>https://moviechat.org/tt0052611/The-Giant-Behemoth/58c706b84e1cf308b937c223/A-Grim-Aspect-of-this-Film?reply=5df2aa2d0f49722942728320&animate=false</url>
And this: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0053145/The-Oregon-Trail/58c723465ec57f0478ec8e10/Unusually-violent-for-its-time?reply=5df2aae50f4972294272832c </url>
And here: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0044205/Westward-the-Women/58c705094e1cf308b93637c3/Two-questions-about-the-Italian-boy-MAJOR-SPOILER?reply=5cbd5eec0e45e31e6aea7df5 </url>
This might be interesting, especially my answer.
<url> https://moviechat.org/tt0056606/Tower-of-London/58c724625ec57f0478ed7087/The-Child-Princes-Possible-Spoilers </url>
And this: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0053145/The-Oregon-Trail/58c723465ec57f0478ec8e10/Unusually-violent-for-its-time?reply=5df2aae50f4972294272832c </url>
And this: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0044205/Westward-the-Women/58c705094e1cf308b93637c3/Two-questions-about-the-Italian-boy-MAJOR-SPOILER?reply=5cbd5eec0e45e31e6aea7df5 </url>
I saw "Cop to It" on Dec. 5, 2019.
At the end, Raven and Mitch get in a staring contest in the living room of Apartment 3B. The scene cuts to an exterior view of the building in daylight. Then the scene cuts to an exterior view of the building at night, with light shining through a triple window probably intended to be the window of Apartment 3b. Then the scene cuts back to the interior of Apartment 3B, with Raven and Mitch still staring.
So this scene implies that the triple living room window of Apartment 3B is probably in one of the two sides of the building seen in exterior shots.
That would contradict my deduction in my previous post that the living room windows of apartment 3B should overlook an interior courtyard of the apartment building.
Added 12-06-2019. I just saw today "Bqh Humbugged" in which the Baxters and Graysons celebrate Christmas. It had some different shots of the exterior of the apartment building, with a lot of snow on it.
The building used for exterior shots of the apartment building is Thalia Hall at 18th and Allport Streets in Chicago.
One shot showed the building at night, with a triple window on the third floor lighted up. It is natural to suppose that the lighted triple window would be the one in the living from of Apartment 3B.
According to what I saw in that shot, the window in the real building, Thalia Hall, should be on the West 18th street side of the building and not the South Allport St. side, and thus should face north toward St. Procopius Catholic Church.
<url>https://www.google.com/maps/place/Thalia+Hall/@41.8577157,-87.6580154,19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x880e2cffdb62b721:0x9a4a94db5d09cf36!8m2!3d41.8577157!4d-87.6574682
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Photographs of Thalia Hall show that it doesn't have any large projections on either 18th St. or Allport St.
<url>https://www.thaliahallchicago.com/about-1 </url>
But according to the sets used, the apartment building should have an extension of tens of feet extending of the sidewalk and the street to contain the hallway outside Apartment 3B on one side of the triple window, and possibly another extension of a number of feet on the other side of the triple window for the bedrooms and bathroom in apartment 3B.
So the apartment building at the fictional address of 352 Hauser avenue in Chicago certainly has some unusual design features (such as sections which are invisible and intangible on the outside but visible and tangible on the inside!) according to the layout of the sets compared to the exterior shots of a real building, Thalia Hall.
The drunk chief who falls with his face into the plate should be from The Comancheros.
the Chief is called Iron Shirt in the movie and is based on a real Comanche chief.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Jacket </url>
I just (11-16-19) saw the first part of "The Falcon and the Raven" again.
In one scene Tess on the roof was doing some gardening for Chelsea - carelessly wasting dirt by tossing it off the roof - and tossed a clump of dirt containing "pinky", Raven's pocketbook, with $ 10,000.00 off the roof.
The kids in the apartment saw it fall through the window and looked out and saw "pinky" landed in a batch of fresh cement drying in the sidewalk below. I think they saw it fall and then looked out the living room window. If correct, the sidewalk they saw below should have been where the Jablonski's apartment, number 2A, & presumably apartment 1A below it, was according to "The Baxter's Get Bounced".
Later Raven passed the tape around the wet patch of sidewalk and entered a building by a door, presumably an entrance to their Apartment building. So one entrance to the Apartment building could be be underneath the 3rd floor hallway, down on the first Floor. And possibly Apartment 2A and Apartment 1A have been demolished after "The Baxters Get Bounced" for some reason, and new slabs of sidewalk pavement are being put where they used to be!
In "Crewed Up", there were scenes in a hallway in apartment 3B. They looked down the hallway with two doors that seemed to go off to the left at a 45 degree angle. I think that hallway may have been the space seen between the living room and the kitchen. Booker and Levi's room was on the left and Nia's room was on the right.
As you may remember, Booker & Levi's room has a section of inclined roofing with an inclined window in it, while Nia's room has a window in a vertical wall which Raven once climbed up to! In "Crewed UP" there was brick wall a short distance outside Nia's window. The exterior shots of the apartment building show two sides, and the third floor doesn't have any slanted roof sections in those two sides, so Booker & Levi's room cannot be in either of those two sides of the building.
If the space seen between the living room and the kitchen is the hallway seen in "Crewed UP", it would indicate that Booker's room should have been right outside the kitchen instead of the light well. And the apartment should extended farther than the living room windows, which might show a courtyard. Part of the building(s) seen outside look like the white stone architecture of the apartment building so that could be another wing of it. The ground floor storefronts in "The Falcon and the Raven" indicate there is public access to that courtyard.
I am beginning to think <i>Raven's Home</i>'s set designer doesn't care much about making the sets fit into any plausible architectural design. Which is hardly unusual in television.
"October 31"
Continued:
The Crown:
I can't tell the Bourchard girls apart very well yet. They wore Halloween costumes in "October 31", which of course made it even harder to tell them apart.
One of the younger girls, the one that Fake Brenda persuade to lie down in the grave, wore a fairy costume, and a costume jewelry crown. She was wearing the crown when she got down into the grave, but as I remember she wasn't wearing it when they pulled her out of the grave. It is quite plausible for a crown to fall off when someone lies down and then gets up.
And what is weird is that nobody jumped down into the grave to retrieve the crown. So I guess someone will have to go back to the cemetery on November 1 and get the crown out of the grave before someone is buried in it. I think it would be embarrassing to yell "Stop the funeral! I have to get something out of the grave before it's covered up." And the way to avoid such embarrassment is to not carelessly leave jewelry, even costume jewelry, laying around in newly dug graves.
I don't own any jewelry, but if I ever do buy any costume jewelry it will be crowns. So I have sometimes checked the prices of costume jewelry crowns and think that the crown in the episode looked too expensive to just leave in a grave to be buried or taken home by the gravedigger. I don't have a picture of the crown to compare, but I have seen vaguely similar looking crowns online sold for tens or hundreds of dollars.
"October 31"
Continued:
Fake Brenda.
We have to wonder how the experience of the Bouchard girls with the false Brenda will affect their relationship with the real Brenda. How did the Fake Brenda know that the real Brenda was too sick to come?
Maybe the false Brenda knew the real Brenda was sick because she made her sick. Maybe Fake Brenda put some kind of food poison in Branda's lunch at school, or something.
So Fake Brenda might be a sister of Brenda, or maybe a classmate of Brenda and the Bouchard girls.
Of course Fake Brenda was probably the disfigured girl in the story that she told the Bouchard girls. And at the end of the episode Fake Brenda is seen from behind, apparently without her mask, walking down the street away from the camera, and two boys approach her and then run away in fright and she laughs.
If that theory is correct, fake Brenda shouldn't be a girl from the Bouchard girls' school. But she might be a sister of the real Brenda, a sister who is kept hidden at home and considers the unpopular Brenda to be much more popular than she is - after all, other kids know that Brenda exists - and envies Brenda's relative popularity and freedom.
I wonder if Fake Brenda was planning to get the Bourchard girls to cover up the girl in the grave to suffocate her. I saw the <i>20/20</i> episode "The Wicked" on 10-25-19 and wonder if the writers of "October 31" were familiar with the Slenderman stabbing case <url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing</url> and more or less modeled Fake Brenda on Morgan Geyser & Anissa Weier.
And of course I wonder whether the false Brenda is bitter and malicious and sort of evil, or if she is EVIL and has joined the evil society of the 60, whatever exactly that is.
Another detail about the apartment building.
The Baxters and Graysons live in Apartment 3B with Tess living in Apartment 3C directly across the hallway.
In typical shots of the hallway, Apartment 3A is on the same side as 3B and down the hall toward the window at the end of the hall.
In shots of the inside of Apartment 3B there is a living room wall in the background in the direction of Apartment 3A but apparently not nearly as far in the background as the windows on the end of the hall. So there could be room for Apartment 3A beyond that living room wall.
Except that there are windows in that living room wall that don't show the interior of Apartment 3A but empty space with buildings at a distance beyond.
So the door to Apartment 3A can't lead to an apartment but to a fall down the outside of the building. That dorr better the locked well.
And obviously there can't be an apartment 4A either. There may or may not be an Apartment 1A and maybe also an Apartment 2A. An actual Apartment 2A would mean that the door marked 3A would lead out onto the roof of the section of the second floor containing Apartment 2A instead of to a drop.
This site claims that Apartment 2A is the Jablonski residence. <url>https://ravenshome.fandom.com/wiki/352_Hauser_Avenue</url>. If correct, that means that Apartments 1A & 2A exist, while 3A & 4A are merely doors with fake apartment numbers.
In the August 4, 2017 episode "The Baxters Get Bounced", Phil Jablonski, their landlord, and his mother Mryna live in an apartment in the building. If their apartment has a sign 2A out side then that part o fht building must be two storeis tall.
Of cours eif different flooors have diffferent arrangements of apartment letters this logic might not be valid.
But in any case it seems certain that the door to Apartment 3A leads outside the building, either to a roof or to a fall.
So apparently the building had an eccentric architect or builder. And it what is the date on a plaque near the roof in some shots of the exterior? I think it is 1892, the year of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. And as I remember correctly H.H. Holmes built a hotel of rather eccentric design in Chicago for the use of Exhibition patrons, his famous "murder castle". That certainly suggests a theme for the next Halloween episode, if there will be another one.
Merriam-Webster says the first known use of "dad" was in 1533, though it doesn't say how popular it was compared to "father" and "Papa" in 19th century USA.
<url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dad</url>
This source says that "Dad" goes back centuries and is probably based on "dada" baby talk:
<url>http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/curious-origins-words-mom-dad/</url>
I saw <i>Four Guns to the Border</i>(1954) again this morning.
June, 1881 began on a Wednesday and ended on a Thursday. <url>https://global.generalblue.com/calendar/june-1881/</url>
Back in the 1950s, a set decorator could have looked up the calendar for June, 1881 in a perpetual calendar, published in many almanacs, so if the script said 1881, and if the set decorator cared about authenticity, he could have made the correct calendar page for June, 1881.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_calendar</url>
As near as I could tell the June, 1881 calendar in Greasy's store that Yaqui knifed had June 1 on Tuesday and had only 30 days. But possibly it could have shown June 1 on Wednesday and thus have been the correct calendar for June 1881.
I glimpsed a calendar in the background of Sheriff Jim Flannery's office and couldn't read it. But it looked like the first day of the month should have been a Tuesday or a Wednesday and the last day of the month should have been a Wednesday or a Thursday.
Thus it is possible, but not certain, that Greasy had the calendar for the current month and year in his store, since the calendar in the sheriff's office, more likely to show the current month, seemed to have a similar or identical arrangement of days.
Of course it is always possible that the set decorators working on <i>Four Guns to the Border</i>(1954) weren't told by the director, scriptwriter, or producer what fictional year the story happens in and just arbitrarily picked 1881 to mark on a calendar, so one can wonder how official 1881 is as the fictional date for <i>Four Guns to the Border</i>(1954).
That depends.
In a high rise building built for public housing of the poor, all of the floors would be considered equally low prestige.
I suspect that in multi storied buildings without elevators, the higher floors are considered lower value than the lower floors.
But in high rise buildings with elevators where you don't have to a walk up many flights of stairs, the higher floor are usually considered higher value than the lower floors because of the better views.
Raven's building is only four stories tall, and none of the tenants knew it had a working elevator until the second season episode "Head over Wheels", July 27, 2018. So I doubt if the landlord charged higher rent for the higher floors.
By the way, Raven's apartment has a window in the kitchen at about a 45 degree angle to the window in the living room. So that implies that the apartment could be at a corner of the building. But apparently there are three bedrooms and a bathroom reached through a door leading to the "corner area", which seems far too small for them.
Therefore, yesterday I decided that if the apartment was in a real building whose layout made any sense instead of being sets on a sound stage, the window in Raven's kitchen showing another wall just a few feet beyond would have to be a window in a light well more or less surrounded by the building. That seems like the only way to have enough space beyond the door for three bedrooms and a bathroom.
The episode "The White Indian" seems to happen at least 22 years after "Escort to Santa Fe".
In "The White Indian" Hardie tries to identify the parents of a white boy who was raised by Indians for 15 years.
According to the synopsis here: <url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0717289/</url>
The boy was raised by Choctaws, who were moved from the Southeast to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s.
There is evidence that the boy might be Tommy McCrea who was 4 years old when his grandmother sent him from St. Louis to his parents. If I heard it correctly, Tommy was on the train to Dodge City, and then sent by stage coach to his parents, but the stage was robbed and the passengers killed. Tommy's body wasn't found.
Dodge City was founded in 1872 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached it in September, 1872. So Tommy could have reached Dodge City by train and left by stagecoach any time after September 1872 in real life.
So that means that "White Indian could have happened any time after September 1887, if it happened in real history and not the Wild West.
And I just accidentally stumbled upon this description of the movie <i>Thunderbirds</i> (1952):
<blockquote>An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.</blockquote>
And I happened to notice this dialog from the movie in the IMDB quote section:
<blockquote>
Chief Whitedeer: [looking at the new division arm patch] Thunderbird, bringer of rain. It is new. Why you change it?
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: I have the old one.
[close-up of Mogay holding the old swastika patch the division had used before]
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: Hitler took our sign.
Chief Whitedeer: Hitler? Oh, the crazy man. You take it back, son.
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: Maybe we will, soon.
</blockquote>
And I just accidentally stumbled upon this description of the movie <i>Thunderbirds</i> (1952):
<blockquote>An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.</blockquote>
And I happened to notice this dialog from the movie in the IMDB quote section:
<blockquote>
Chief Whitedeer: [looking at the new division arm patch] Thunderbird, bringer of rain. It is new. Why you change it?
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: I have the old one.
[close-up of Mogay holding the old swastika patch the division had used before]
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: Hitler took our sign.
Chief Whitedeer: Hitler? Oh, the crazy man. You take it back, son.
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: Maybe we will, soon.
</blockquote>
And I just accidentally stumbled upon this description of the movie <i>Thunderbirds</i> (1952):
<blockquote>An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.</blockquote>
And I happened to notice this dialog from the movie in the IMDB quote section:
<blockquote>
Chief Whitedeer: [looking at the new division arm patch] Thunderbird, bringer of rain. It is new. Why you change it?
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: I have the old one.
[close-up of Mogay holding the old swastika patch the division had used before]
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: Hitler took our sign.
Chief Whitedeer: Hitler? Oh, the crazy man. You take it back, son.
Cpl. Ralph Mogay: Maybe we will, soon.
</blockquote>
In "The Bar Sinister" the funeral of Sam Whitlaw includes a glimpse of his tombstone which seems to have a death date of 1874.
If the tombstone says he died in 1874 then "The Bar sinister" must happen in 1874.
I eat three meals a day plus a dessert after dinner and a late night snack later if I have saved up enough calories during the day. So I eat three to five times a day and thus an average of 300 to 500 calories per serving.
I have been on a 1500 calorie diet since April 7, 2018 and have lost 132 pounds since I started.