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Post by kjw on Nov 2, 2009 21:36:29 GMT -5
That exist anywhere in the world? I thought I had heard about one somewhere in The Dakotas somewhere quite awhile back,but I never could find out for sure or verify it.Does anyone know of any Rascals fan clubs that we can join,if we wanted to join one or some? Please respond back and thank you.
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Post by littlerascal4891 on Nov 4, 2009 19:09:33 GMT -5
I have no idea. But if there was a fan club, I would want to join!
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 24, 2011 11:36:58 GMT -5
I had one when I was younger (about 14 years old, around 1984-85). I even mailed out a quarterly newsletter. It was called "OGFCA", which meant "Our Gang Fan Club of America".
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jun 24, 2011 13:54:25 GMT -5
I had one when I was younger (about 14 years old, around 1984-85). I even mailed out a quarterly newsletter. It was called "OGFCA", which meant "Our Gang Fan Club of America". Impressive. If something like that were around today, I certainly would take the opportunity and join. |
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 24, 2011 15:12:06 GMT -5
Rascalwatcher, that sounds like a great fan club!
The closest the Gang ever really got to a long-running fan club were the various Sons of the Desert meetings around the world. Though mostly dedicated to the fantastic team of Laurel and Hardy, around 1978 Darla Hood proposed the idea of holding Our Gang reunions at the meetings. Sadly, she passed on before the first meeting was held.
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 26, 2011 17:10:49 GMT -5
I had one when I was younger (about 14 years old, around 1984-85). I even mailed out a quarterly newsletter. It was called "OGFCA", which meant "Our Gang Fan Club of America". Impressive. If something like that were around today, I certainly would take the opportunity and join. I'll see if I can find an old copy I might have saved, and scan and upload it. |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jun 26, 2011 18:33:49 GMT -5
Thank you! I'm sure that it would be very interesting to read.
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 30, 2011 9:06:59 GMT -5
Here is page one of four of one of the newsletters I printed. Please note that I digitized the actual home addresses and phone numbers of the gang in here. (I can't believe I actually printed those, but then again - I was 14 years old when I printed and distributed this.) Three more pages to follow. Attachments:
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 30, 2011 9:11:35 GMT -5
Page two. Please note that by referring to these films as "Halloween Shorts", I mean their release date occurred near Halloween. Attachments:
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 30, 2011 9:13:40 GMT -5
Page three. This would have fit on page two, but I think I was shooting for a four-page newsletter so I spread out the Halloween shorts (though they would have fit in one column). Attachments:
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 30, 2011 9:15:22 GMT -5
And page four of four - a word search! Find the 40 names of Our Gangers (including names of animal actors). I'm not sure if the scan picked it up or not, but I drew this on graph paper. Attachments:
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 30, 2011 9:18:39 GMT -5
Incidentally, I did find another issue I printed, from April of 1985. That one was actually typed (on an IBM Selectric typewriter, for those of us old enough to remember those).
I will upload that one at a later date. Enjoy this for now. This was my club. Incidentally, today I work with technical publications. I produce manuals using the Adobe Creative Suite library of programs. I can't image the newsletters I would have been able to put together had that technology existed 27 years ago.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 30, 2011 10:03:08 GMT -5
Nice newsletter! Do you recall how long it took you to make it?
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jun 30, 2011 12:19:26 GMT -5
Nice newsletter! Do you recall how long it took you to make it? Thanks! I probably spent a few hours every issue, between deciding what to put in there, and whatnot - especially since the first few issues were handwritten. I didn't use a template; I drew the header logo every time. I measured it out with a ruler and divided by 5 (one for each letter), so that did take time. It did speed up considerably when I switched to typing! However, I didn't use the logo at that point. Affordable computers were still quite a ways off. Back then, a home computer cost around $4000 for something that would be a boat anchor today. Not sure what that is in 2011 dollars, but even without inflation, that would be a chunk! |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 5, 2011 21:22:17 GMT -5
Wow. A handwritten newsletter is something exceptional, for sure. Also, the information in the interview of Eugene Lee and about the release dates of the "Halloween shorts", information that would be relatively simple to find online today, would not have been nearly as easily accessible in the days before widespread internet use. Compiling all of that into a single resource , especially in 1984, was a significant accomplishment. The Our Gang word search is impressive, too. I've always wondered how those things are written.
Thanks for the scans!
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