Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to agree with Mark. Growing up in the 30s and 40s, our small Mississippi town library had all of the original Tom Swift series, and I read and enjoyed them all. That could have been a part of what influenced me to study engineering. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Photo Phreak" <leicam4pro@yahoo.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - was Ken Rockwell, now Tom Corbett, Space Cadet > > Mark, > > You are throwing rocks at the books some of us grew up with. The > originals were not available to all of us. They were already collectibles. > The Jr. seriesw was aimed at grade school age kids. Probably ages 8 > through 11. > > > Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > The the originals were like > TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTORCYCLE > > Not all that Avant Garde for even then > But the Bees Knees > > While the redos in the 60s were totally ridiculous > I think they were written by a panel of hacks > under the pseudonym of Victor Appleton II. > All smoking Pell Mell straights with a pot of bad percolated coffee. > > TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING LAB > TOM SWIFT AND HIS JETMARINE > TOM SWIFT AND HIS ROCKET SHIP > TOM SWIFT AND HIS GIANT ROBOT > TOM SWIFT AND HIS ATOMIC EARTH BLASTER > TOM SWIFT AND HIS OUTPOST IN SPACE > TOM SWIFT AND HIS DIVING SEACOPTER > TOM SWIFT IN THE CAVES OF NUCLEAR FIRE > TOM SWIFT ON THE PHANTOM SATELLITE > TOM SWIFT AND HIS ULTRASONIC CYCLOPLANE > TOM SWIFT AND HIS DEEP-SEA HYDRODOME > TOM SWIFT IN THE RACE TO THE MOON > TOM SWIFT AND HIS SPACE SOLARTRON > TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRONIC RETROSCOPE > TOM SWIFT AND HIS SPECTROMARINE SELECTOR > TOM SWIFT AND THE COSMIC ASTRONAUTS > TOM SWIFT AND THE VISITOR FROM PLANET X > > There was no Victor Appleton II I bet. > I think reading comic books would have been smarter. > But they were not allowed in the house. > > And I don't think there was a real ULTRASONIC CYCLOPLANE either. > I think they made that up. > > I've got my suspicions on that ELECTRONIC RETROSCOPE too. > > Better go the BULGARIANS are closing in. > > Mark Rabiner > 8A/109s > New York, NY > > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > --------------------------------- > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >