Speaking of the 'coming' Apocalypse, I was listening to an old Jean Shepherd

[PCIntern]

radio show the other night, as I am wont to do, and he told a fascinating story which I'll shorten and paraphrase:

Years before he was in NYC, in the 1950's, he worked here in Philly and used to stop at a grocery store every morning on the Eastern Main Line for coffee and a paper, and one day the owner said to him that he'd sold his store and his possessions and were going to a field near Paoli (western main line) where the Apocalypse was going to take place. shep found out that there were going to be many people at this location and they were there for hours, many having sold all their worldly goods and homes and businesses, and guess what? Nothing ever happened. Eventually all the people got out of there and life as we know it, went on. Many of them however, had irretrievably ruined their lives.

Shep of course told this magnificently over the period of about half an hour, and I spent the whole time in rapt attention since I had never heard this one before.
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So there really is nothing new under the sun...or under the Son. I'm going to look for this event in some old archives here and try to post it if I can.

[madrchsod]

1. forgot all about jean shepherd.....

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[PCIntern]

2. You can get more than 1100 shows online...n/t

[brooklynite]

13. "The Brass Figlagee" podcast available on iTunes...

[eleny]

3. It's odd that they sold their possessions

[PCIntern]

4. Maybe you CAN take it with you...hoo nose?

:hi:

[eleny]

17. I can hear Shep chuckling and the music starting up in the background

:hi:

[Canuckistanian]

11. Yes, what would they do with the cash?

Does God not accept VISA or MC?

[RagAss]

5. Nobody told it like Shep. 1970's WOR radio NYC...I was a young teen and he gave me my vocabulary !

[Demoiselle]

6. Jean Shepherd!

I remember discovering him when I was a kid....listening to the radio in bed...finding him on WOR out of New York (I grew up on a farm in Bucks County) and being absolutely fascinated by the guy. One evening he read excerpts from The Sheik...the early 20th century romance novel written by Edith Ward Hull that was the basis for the Rudolph Valentino movie. It was over the top nonsense...and he made it hysterically funny by reading it absolutely seriously......Of course, that lovely movie "A Christmas Story" has made everybody a Jean Shepherd fan....but I'm proud to say I was a fan in the '50's. And Oh God that means I'm so old...

[PCIntern]

7. Me too...same scenario

I lived in New Hope...where were you?

[Demoiselle]

16. On a farm off Rte. 611 in Warrington...

4 miles South of Doylestown..
Went to Central Bucks High School. Long time ago!
There was something magic about Shepherd's radio voice....he really did seem to be speaking only to me, and I'm sure you felt the same way...

[PCIntern]

19. A young lady was seeing me in my office and

she was from Warrington as was her dad. she was telling me that her dad said that the Barn Theater used to be a barn and was converted. I gently begged to differ with her...she was a little miffed and I asked her how old her dad was and she replied that he was 45. I told her that he was about as old as the theater and I was there as an adolescent when the only movie house in Doylestown was the County, and the Barn was simply made to look like a barn.

Nice area in the old days...had lived for a few years right down from Conti's Restaurant in Regency Woods after New Hope...

[Demoiselle]

20. I saw at least one movie a week at the County!

As a kid, with my parents, when every movie was a "family" movie. (I don't really miss the prudishness... .but we certainly saw some good movies!)
The farm I grew up on is now part of a development called "Palomino Farms." EVERYTHING about the old place has disappeared...our barn, house, carriage house, even the topography. It looks like they leveled the whole place for about a square mile!
Suburban sprawl gives me the blues.

[eleny]

18. You old hipster, you!

[Demoiselle]

21. A lot more old than hip, I fear. Ah well.

I shall now grump for a while about the lack of decent music out there anymore....
(Don't Bogart that joint, my friend...)

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

8. That's a Great Story

That's they one about the old guy who wrote down everything he ever ate. Great line..."I wonder what the apocolypse nuts do in between comets?"

[LiberalEsto]

9. People waited for the world to end in the year 1000 too

but I don't believe Jean Shepherd was around then to tell the story.

My mother LOVED Shepherd and listened to his program all the time.

[WhiteTara]

10. You were right the first time

there is nothing new under the sun. The story of the son is not new, but a remake of Isis/Osiris and the child Horus. Of course the Christian version is a stripped down, plain Jane story without the majesty and drama of the original.

I've heard many stories about people who thought the end was neigh; I have never met someone who had to accept that Life insists and goes on.

[bjobotts]

12. The apocalypse is happening now in the spirit world as to which sould will get reincarnated

[bjobotts]

14. Souls from the lower regions or higher.The kinder we are on earth to each other will decide which ge

get through. Be kind...keep the republican minded souls out. Edgar Cayce claims a new period will come over the earth when we come to love each other as we love ourselves. T he "God spot" is in the right side of the brain which acts as a spiritual receiver and transmitter. This is how the word or spirit (logos) was made flesh. We are spiritual beings playing in this virtual reality world of concrete. Any good dreams lately...how real were they?

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. These the world is coming to an end

happen in this country well before there was a country.

They helped end two revivals already, I think this will peak the third.

[Gabi Hayes]

22. yeah....but do they have one of these?