"For us believing physicists, the distinction between
past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one."
- Albert Einstein
Tulsa TV Memories can serve as your own personal time
portal.
Here is a rundown of its features:
The
GroupBlog is the
heart of the site. From its start as the Guestbook
in 1998, it has functioned as a "reverse blog": readers make the entries,
the webmaster adds comments, links and pictures. You are invited to write
as many times as you wish. A few easy-going
guidelines are in GB #89.
Pictures, sound files, audio and video tapes and DVDs
are also welcome via email or regular mail. These
contributions and selected GroupBlog entries are incorporated into existing
and new pages.
Browsing the extensive
GroupBlog Archive (linked, illustrated,
and lightly edited for readability) can be a serendipitous
journey.
Channel Changer 1
will reacquaint you with (or introduce you to) local TV shows and personalities
of the past. Channel Changer 2 covers
such Tulsa pop culture topics as radio, drive-ins, and counterculture of
the 70s, plus current movie reviews by Gary Chew, and the odd review by the
webmaster.
The Channel Changers highlight some, but by no means all
of the site's content. The Site Map is a further
aid to navigation, showing you most of the pages on the site (excepting
individual archived GroupBlog pages and movie reviews).
The What's New page jumps
you directly to changes on the site. You can subscribe to this page via
Feedburner
or with TTM's XML file.
All pages (except the current GroupBlog) are indexed for
the TTM Search Engine, which can help you track
down shows and names that come to mind during your visits; keep a notepad
handy.
This is an exploratory site. Start anywhere. It is cross-linked to help you
follow your interests, wherever they may lead.
(Board game once owned by the webmaster)
"...And also like all men perhaps there'll be an occasion, maybe a summer
night sometime, when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the
distant music of a calliope---and hear the voices
and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across
his mind there'll flit a little errant wish: that a man might not have to
become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth.
"And he'll smile then too because he'll know it IS just an errant wish. Some
wisp of memory, not too important really. Some laughing ghosts that cross
a man's mind...that are a part...of the Twilight Zone."
Rod Serling, from the
closing narration
of "Walking Distance"
(Music: Bernard Herrmann)
I hope Tulsa TV Memories unlocks new doors as well as
old for you, as it has for me.
