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History of Clifton Hill Part 5 (Final): What Could Have Been, and What Can Still Be
Thank you to everyone who has followed this series or voted for it's creation. I'm glad you've enjoyed it and I'm always happy to spread the important history of the amusement industry, especially pertaining to the place that inspired me to go into the industry. For parts 1-4 scroll back in this sub or click my profile. In 1989, Welland Securities, who owned the entire south-west side of the Hill, would develop the final portion of unused land on Clifton Hill. They would become HOCO (Harry Oakes Company) and gain ownership of almost all the attractions on land they leased out. This included Movieland, The Space Spiral Tower and the Cliffside Motel. The only attractions that would continue being leased were Ripley's and Circus World, meaning HOCO not only owned all the land on the South-West side of the hill, they now ran everything between Circus World and Ripley's, as well as the Fudge Factory (in its original spot) and an ice cream stand immediately down the hill from Circus World. They planned to keep everything that was on the hill but build on it. Movieland was remodeled and the outside was given a more noticeable Egyptian theme to match the lobby. This meant large lion statues and Costello's talking pharaoh. The lobby was remodeled as well. Rather than a cameraman and a director filming Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, they would now be filming Costello's Indiana Jones figure, who lowered up and down on a rope above a fogging pit with a cobra rising out of it. Many of the early talkie-era stars in the hall immediately after the entrance (along with Elizabeth Taylor) were moved to 2 large display cases in the middle of the attraction with multiple figures, instead of each one having their own scene. In their original spot just inside the entrance an intentionally scary scene was created to match the popular Indiana Jones series. Many of the figures Costello had added since he became the museum's artist were slightly frightening, like a lunging alligator or a startling Joker scene with a machine gun sound effect. The museum had been expanded at the end, and a large horror section had been added, with many figures like the mummy being from the same mold as the House of Frankenstein/Castle Dracula mummys. Unlike when it would move to it's current location in 2005, the old location's chicken exit was placed before the horror section rather than the haunted house portion. In fact, there was no haunted house section, many of the figures that would end up in the haunted house section of the new location were simply scattered throughout the museum. Many of the figures in the horror section of the original museum were actually less scary and less animated than the Jurassic park scene or the alligator encountered earlier in the museum. To prevent unsuspecting parents who had no clue what kind of attraction this was dragging their children in and expecting static figures of washed-up movie stars, getting the living daylights scared out of them, then end ending up filing complaints with HOCO's customer service department, an intentionally scary scene was put at the beginning. This let people know what they were walking in to, an experience rather than a museum. Costello designed figures behind plexiglass such as a man upside down in a cocoon thrashing around, a skull that popped up from the floorboards in a scene full of snakes, a man on a bed of spikes that fell towards you, and a scene with spiders on fishing line "jumping" all over a rotting corpse. The Cliffside Motel was amalgamated into a wing of the Quality Inn, and the driveway into it off the hill was removed as it was no longer necessary because it could be accessed from the Quality Inn parking lot. In the driveway's place was now a large empty space between Circus World and Movieland, with the Space Spiral Tower (with a relatively small footprint) stuck in the middle. HOCO called upon attraction design and layout firm White Hutchison Leisure Learning Group (WHLLG) to design an attraction around the Space Spiral that would use the final undeveloped land on Clifton Hill. And so WHLLG designed Dazzleland Family Fun Centre. Dazzleland was a courtyard of buildings arranged in roughly the same layout as the Great Canadian Midway (for reasons we'll get to later) that sits on the land now. The buildings around the outside of the courtyard were long and narrow, picture a courtyard of carnival game trailers but permanent, appealing buildings. These buildings included a Skee-ball building, a sports game building (basketball games, football toss etc.), a racing game building, a pinball building, a funnel cake shop, and the prize counter. In the back corner, roughly where the XD Theatre now is in the midway, was a larger building: an arcade housing video games and more pinball machines. In the middle of the courtyard was a small carousel, and a small building housing games that dispensed their own prizes (claw machines, prize egg games, etc.) and coin-op kiddie rides. The Space Spiral was incorporated into Dazzleland, still being accessible directly off the hill. As mentioned in part 3, the tower was exactly where the Fudge Factory now is, as the circular store was once the loading area for the tower. At this time the snack bars beside the tower right on the hill were constructed: a pretzel/hotdog stand and an ice cream stand, both of which are still there. The Wendy's was built on top of Circus World, replacing the mini golf that had formerly been on the attraction's roof. Across the entrance to Dazzleland's courtyard from Wendy's was a Domino's Pizza, roughly where the photo booth just to your right is when entering the Great Canadian Midway now. Between the Space Spiral and the Dominos was a fortune teller machine built right into the wall: "Ask the Brain". The brain still lives on inside Movieland, except now he wants a loonie instead of a quarter. Just up the hill from the Space Spiral, on top of the hot dog and ice cream stand, a small sports bar was built. Very little is known about this sports bar, but obvious remnants of it still exists. The area of Boston Pizza closest to the hill (the back corner near the kitchen, the bar area, and the raised dining area) was the originally the sports bar. It featured a small coin-op bowling lane, arcade games, and food. The stairs in the Midway up to Boston Pizza beside Ghostblasters is the original stairs up from Dazzleland to the sports bar. Additionally, the Boston Pizza entrance closer to the hill (not the one with the big bowling pin, other one) was the main entrance to the sports bar. Little is known about the bar, including it's name. It may not have had one, simply being part of the Dazzleland complex. Many of the areas in Dazzleland didn't have a name, simply having signs heralding "Arcade", "Sports Games", "Skeeball" rather than naming the areas like the "Game Factory", "Sports Zone" or "Strike! Rock 'n Bowl" like in the Midway. For this reason, the bar may have been nameless, simply being part of the Dazzleland complex, but it's unlikely a dining establishment geared at adult nightlife wouldn't have a name. Because the mini golf on Circus World's roof had been operated by the Cliffside Motel operators, HOCO acquired all the assets from it when they stopped leasing the land out. When the aforementioned Wendy's was built, the mini golf was moved just up the hill from the sports bar. It's entrance was right on the hill, but the course wrapped around the sports bar and ran back behind Dazzleland, between the back of Dazzleland and the parking lot of the Quality Inn. It would now be dinosaur themed and heavily landscaped. WHLLG designed the course and HOCO contracted Costello to build all the fiberglass dinosaurs. It's unknown what it's original name was, but in the early 90s, with the smash hit of Jurassic Park, it was renamed Dinosaur Park and given a similar logo. Up until the 2018 remodel, Boston Pizza had a patio. This patio was the exact location of the entrance to the mini golf, and the reason the restaurant's building curved in such a bizarre way surrounding the patio was originally to accommodate the course. Underneath the sports bar and mini golf and was an underground building accessible from a back corner of Dazzleland's courtyard. This area housed all of Dazzleland's miscellaneous ticket redemption games and 2 shooting galleries. The low-ceiling area of the Midway called the "Game Factory" is this original building. The Bonanaza Company shooting gallery is still there albeit heavily remodeled, but Blasteroids, an early project by arcade game company Lazer-Tron, was removed in 2016. Interestingly, the chase lights along the back wall of the Game Factory are Dazzleland holdovers. Between the shooting gallery and where what's left of the racing games now are is a bank of maintenance doors. If you get lucky and see them open, you'll see a stairs that was originally an entrance to Dazzleland from further up the street, beside Dinosaur Park. This now lets out somewhere in Boston Pizza's arcade (although I haven't been able to figure out where) and is used by staff to get from "a" to "b" faster. Dazzleland has been the hardest to dig up information on in my research on Clifton Hill. Although I now know what was in each of the buildings around the outside of this "courtyard", I haven't been able to find which one was where. The only things I've confirmed is where the video game building was, what was in the building in the middle, and confirmed that the Game Factory was originally part of Dazzleland. The rest is beyond me and my memories of it have long faded. If anyone worked here or visited it frequently and has any answers, they would be greatly appreciated. Additionally there was a small pool near the front with a Costello dragon figure in it that spit water out it's mouth. I've heard conflicting reports that this was just a fountain, and others saying it was a small bumper boat or RC boat attraction, but my guess is it was just a fountain as it seems like a pretty small pool. The same year, fiberglass dragon waterslides were added to the Quality Inn pool. Although bearing striking resemblance to Costello's dinosaurs and Dazzleland dragon, at least one more of each of the dragon slides exist, all the way down in Texas. It was originally thought this Texas waterpark bought them off HOCO when Quality Inn closed, but one of the Quality Inn dragons appeared on an episode of shipping wars going to Kansas and the other was recently found abandoned on a private residential property in Niagara, proving they are in fact not the ones at the Texas waterpark. This is evidence they may have been mass produced. By the time Dazzleland opened in 1989, it was the 8th arcade on the hill (after Circus World, Q-Balls Billiards Pub in Quality Inn, the arcade in Ripley's, the arcade in the Foxhead, the arcade in Castle Dracula, Funland in the basement of the House of Frankenstein, and an arcade that had recently opened in the Pilgrim Motel in their gift shop.) These were just the large-scale, dedicated arcades right on the hill. Many others could be found nearby in Maple Leaf Village, the Skylon, the Seagram, Pyramid Place and the Imperial Hotel as well as many mini golf courses and family fun centres along Lundy's Ln. and the QEW. Also, virtually every gift shop on Clifton Hill and Victoria Ave. had a game or 2. The mix of arcades, haunted houses, fast food, nightlife and stores selling t-shirts and posters had started a well-known rock culture in Niagara Falls among Southern Ontario youth. The epicenter of this was "Rock World", a rock-themed gift shop that had opened in 1983 on Centre St. (the street Clifton Hill becomes just above Victoria Ave.) They would later add a second story and build Rock Legends Wax Museum above it, with all the figures sculpted by the store's owner Pasquale Rammuno. In 1996, Maple Leaf Village was replaced by Casino Niagara, and many of the attractions found new homes on Victoria Ave., including Screamers and Nightmares. The Elvis Museum, Antique Auto Museum, 50s diner nightclub, and arcade all moved to Pyramid Place adjacent to the IMAX pyramid. Screamers prospered on Victoria Ave., and 2 "sequel attractions" were built in the early 2000s: Creatures of the Night on Victoria Ave. and Horror Manothe Zombie Zoo Nightclub on Centre St. Another attraction, Alien Encounter, would open at the corner of Victoria Ave. and Clifton Hill beside the Criminals Hall of Fame. This slightly thematically darker "north of the hill" area with the Screamers chain, the Criminals Hall of Fame, Rock Legends, Nightmares and Alien Encounter became a "main strip" all in it's own. As mentioned before, since the cabin courts were all town down in the early 50s, nothing had been torn down on Clifton Hill. The only exception was the Houdini Hall of Fame that burnt to ash in 1996. Some of Houdini's Last Words were claiming that anything revealing his secrets would perish in flame, and even though the fire completely leveled the museum, the plywood and fiberglass paneled House of Frankenstein only separated from it by a 2-foot wide alley was completely untouched, leading a lot of Houdini's fans to believe he was conducting some kind of post-mortem practical joke. The metal objects like handcuffs and the water tank could be saved, and were bought by David Copperfield. Ripley's Moving Theatre was built in it's place. Over the 30 years from Tussaud's opening in 1959 to Dazzleland in 1989, Clifton Hill had expanded and filled up the land. However that didn't mean it was time to tear things down. Things were simply moved around or remodeled to keep them fresh, not out of an unwillingness to change, but because these things had become ingrained in the landscape. Examples of this were Tussaud's moving to its current home in the old building of a restaurant that had since moved on Victoria Ave., rather than the attraction shutting down, or the Adventure Dome Theatre oepneing in part of the Honeymoon City's gift shop. In Tussaud's old place was built the MGM walkthrough/store, Pink Panther ride and 4D Ride in 2002. The beer garden beside it was replaced with the WWE building and the Piledriver ride, but the beer area was moved to between the 2 attractions. In 2004 the Foxhead's arcade was expanded and re-themed into the Marvel Superheros Adventure City. Another great example of re-freshing an existing attraction was Dazzleland. A simple realization was made, more games = more money and higher guest enjoyment. The outdoor courtyard style with it's room for walkways between the buildings was re-designed, and HOCO again called upon WHLLG. WHLLG designed not only a remodel of Dazzleland, but an incredible 5-step plan that would have made Clifton Hill financially on par with a major theme park. Steps 1-3 came to fruition. Step 1 was remodeling Dazzleland into the Great Canadian Midway in 2002. The level, concrete foundation Dazzleland was built on was kept as the foundation of the Midway, hence why it has the same layout. The former video game building at the back became the FX Ride Theatre (now XD Theatre/Wild West Coaster) in the Midway. The funnel cake shop was kept where it was in Dazzleland except now it was in the Midway, between the FX Ride and the Prize Counter. The area housing Dazzleland's ticket redemption games became the Game Factory. The middle building housing the claw games and kiddie rides was demolished, as it was no longer needed because the Midway was fully indoors and there was now a massive space to put games. The sports bar was expanded and became Boston Pizza, so Dinosaur Park was moved to in front of the Comfort Inn. Under the expanded Boston Pizza, Sally Corp. was hired to build the interactive Ghostblasters dark ride. All of Dazzleland's old games made the transition into the Midway, however very few are still around. With the Midway making serious buck, HOCO went ahead with phase 2 of WHLLG's plan. Movieland was moved to Circus World's former location in 2005, and Circus World's owners moved the attraction to what was then the popular Victoria Ave. area. In Movieland's old home, Cosmic Golf, a blacklight golf was temporarily set up. 2 years later in 2007, the golf moved to it's permanent home in the basement becoming Galaxy Golf and the gift shop that had been formerly in the basement was moved upstairs. Movieland retained all the figures and sets they had at the time of the move, moving them all into the new space. All the scary elements were put in the new "House of Horrors", a small optional haunted house at the end of the attraction. Phase 3 involved beginning to demolish the only thing that WHLLG's 5 phase plan would have torn down: Quality Inn. In it's place an amusement park would have been built, anchored by Canada's largest ferris wheel. The wheel would be phase 3 and the amusement park phase 4. Though both WHLLG and HOCO recognized the historical value of the hotel, it had reasons to go. The hotel may have been full of your usual hazardous mid-century building materials (however Comfort Inn built by the same firm the same year was found to have no hazardous materials when it was torn down in 2015, so who knows) but the main issue was elevators and the amount of space it took up. Comfort Inn only had 2 wings, one on each side of the lobby, and only 2 elevators would have needed to be installed. This wasn't legally necessary, as no law states that buildings of age absolutely have to be 100% accessible, it was more something HOCO wanted to do. Quality Inn had multiple wings that weren't accessible from one another, so an elevator would need to be installed in each wing. In addition to the elevator issue, Comfort Inn was chosen as the hotel to keep because the building was integrated with Kelsey's, Rumors Nightclub, Ripley's, and Dinosaur Park, all of which wouldn't have been touched in WHLLG's 5 phase plan. Finally, Comfort Inn's land wasn't big enough for an amusement park whereas Quality Inn's was. 2 things would justify the demolition of Quality Inn. One, it's sister hotel, Comfort Inn, would have been kept. The other reason justifying the demolition would be phase 5: a skyscraper hotel and indoooutdoor waterpark in the field between Clifton Hill and the Skylon Tower. The dragon figures from Quality Inn's pool were kept in HOCO's storage for a time for this waterpark. The final vision can be seen here. Phase 3 would go ahead in 2006, with the lobby, Golden Griddle and Q-Balls Billiard pub of Quality Inn being torn down and the Skywheel built in it's place. For the last year Quality Inn was open, you would need to register at Comfort Inn's lobby. The same year, the Space Spiral was torn down, as 2 observation attractions wouldn't be needed on the hill. However, a new spiral tower would have been constructed during phase 4 in the theme park. The reason the tower would be demolished rather than moved was because a tower manufactured by the same company in Wildwood, NJ, had begun to sway a few years earlier, resulting in it needing to be removed entirely for safety reasons. Phase 4 was set to go ahead in 2010, so in 2009 the remainder of Quality Inn was demolished. It seemed as though everything would fall into place, and with the exception of Quality Inn making it's sacrifice, everything on Clifton Hill that had been there for 20-60 years would be there forever, just greatly expanded on. Unfortunately, this came at a turning point for Clifton Hill, when the recession was in full swing and tourism had declined since 9/11. Changing technology and interests, but no real nostalgia trend yet, created a perfect storm, and the idea was scrapped. Especially now that there would be no amusement park, a lot of area attractions closed. HOCO now needed to find a new design company to completely re-design the project. The problem was, Quality Inn was already torn down to make way for the amusement park. HOCO reluctantly found a new design company who had no projects under their belt yet, IDS. HOCO was hopeful the Canadian company could help give them a similar vision to their previous 5 stage plan, that would help them re-use many of the already implemented stages and despite scrapping the amusement park, would simply scale down and redesign the hotel. This was done in hopes that the city would be much more likely to approve just another high rise hotel than an amusement park as well. IDS' new plan was much different than what HOCO was looking for. It featured tearing down Ripley's, Comfort Inn, Kelsey's, and Rumours Nightclub and building a Titanic Museum shaped like the boat. It also featured building a large mall within the hotel rather than a waterpark and relocating and expanding Dinosaur Park into Dinosaur Adventure Golf on Quality Inn's old land. While HOCO thankfully chose not to go ahead with the mall and Titanic Museum, they would build Dinosaur Adventure Golf and work with IDS to make a more feasible plan that better suited Clifton Hill. The new plan featured Dinosaur Adventure Golf and Strike! Rock 'n Bowl as phase 1. It also included removing a lot of the thematic brand identity elements WHLLG had implemented to coincide with their final amusement park vision and replacing Galaxy Golf with Wizard's Golf as phase 2. Phase 3 would feature tearing down Comfort Inn (that never got it's elevators due to it no longer being planned to be kept), building Niagara Speedway in it's place, and removing Rumors Nightclub to accommodate the new Kelsey's bathrooms and Zombie Attack. Phase 4 would feature remodelling Wendy's, Boston Pizza and Kelsey's. Phase 5 would feature a mall (no hotel) in the field between Dinosaur Adventure Golf and the Skylon, but this final phase will likely never come to fruition. Multiple attractions have closed since the late 2000's, such as the entire Screamers chain, Circus World, The Criminals Hall of Fame, Funland Arcade and Alien Encounter. The Hilltop Motel became the current home of the Upside Down House, and the Pilgrim Motel became Captain Jack's. Ironically, the only part of the building that's not part of the entertainment centre is a Mini Mart at the back that was the original arcade in the Pilgrim. Virtually everything in the Falls. Ave. complex other than Rainforest Cafe and the 4D theatre is gone. Marvel Superheroes Adventure City lost its license after Disney bought Marvel, and it simply became Adventure City. The Hulk Mini Golf became jungle themed, Spider-Man references were (poorly) removed from the dark ride, and X-men referenced were (also poorly) removed from the bumper cars. References to Marvel can still be found in the arcade, such as Spider-Man's face on a tree that was only covered up a few years ago. The WWE Store, after being abandoned since 2012, was turned into the Niagara Brewery Beer Store in 2016, fitting considering the land's history as a beer garden. Planet Hollywood on Falls Ave. closed around 2014, and is still abandoned. The MGM walkthrough was abandoned for over 10 years before becoming a barbecue restaurant in 2019. The changes in the Falls Ave. complex are an example of good change, replacing abandoned attractions with ones that if anything are closer to what used to be there, such as Adventure City becoming an unthemed arcade again or the Beer Store being where the Beer Garden once was. Another example of this good change would be the long abandoned (and burnt) Adventure Dome that had briefly held a Lego attraction being turned into the Amazing Big Top Mirror and Lazer Maze in 2017. However a perfect example of negative change is the Rock Legends Wax Museum being forced out of business because a YouTube video of the museum was flagged for copyrighted music by YouTube's algorithms. This lead Sony Music to investigate the museum and shut it down last year if it wouldn't pay ridiculous licensing fees, which it couldn't afford. Another example is IDS' redevelopment plan. HOCO is now locked in a contract with them, even though they obviously have very different ideas on the direction of Clifton Hill. Phase 1 was implemented in 2011, with Boston Pizza expanding their arcade to include Strike! Rock 'n Bowl and Dinosaur Park moving to where Quality Inn was and being renamed Dinosaur Adventure Golf. All of Costello's original dinosaurs (with the exception of the original Pterodactyl) would "migrate" to the new location where they would be joined by dozens of new mass-produced dinosaurs. Interestingly, foundations were built back in 2011 for the original 2 Brontosaurs to appear as if they were coming out of the ponds, but they wouldn't show up until 2019 when they were brought back out of storage to be installed, only to lay on the ground for a few months before going back into storage. Although it didn't use new hand-made figures, this attraction was a change that fits the spirit of Clifton Hill and was a good replacement for the empty plot of land that had once housed Quality Inn, even if an amusement park would have been better. The same cannot be said about the rest of IDS' plan. Many thematic elements installed throughout the hill by WHLLG (especially in Movieland and the Midway) were removed in phase 2 in 2013 simply to fit with IDS's image better, costing HOCO a lot of money. Phase 3 went ahead in 2015, and the 60 year old Comfort Inn was demolished, along with the old HOCO offices in it that if you remember from part 1, was the original nearly 200 year old stable building for the Zimmerman estate. Niagara Speedway was built in it's place, and if you look at the prices to drive it, then watch how many people do, you realize just how much they're making off it. Rumors Nightclub, originally the Queen's Door Nightclub in 1956, was gutted and turned into Zombie Attack and the new Kelsey's bathrooms, as the old ones had been in the Comfort Inn building. Phase 4 in 2018 extensively remodeled Wendy's as well as Boston Pizza, removing the patio. Ghostblasters is now the final untouched WHLLG era attraction on the land. This is made even more troubling by the fact the signs for it were just removed and replaced with temporary ones, as I said in the post that started the entire discussion on whether or not I should do this series. If the attraction does go, we can only hope that a new interactive dark ride utilizing artistry, dimensional scenes and props much like Ghostblasters does is built, however that likely won't be the case. Triotech is the lead designer of ride through shooting games, that feature a dark ride car that travels through a hallway with screens on each side of it rather than real props. Triotech has dealt with HOCO before, building both the Wild West Coaster and Zombie Attack, so all signs point to one of these attractions replacing Ghostblasters if it closes. There is still hope that Clifton Hill can retain it's spirit, but it stands at a crossroads. The House of Frankenstein for example, while retaining many original scenes, has had many removed and replaced with nothing, and many areas of the museum taken out entirely. Castle Dracula on the other hand hasn't updated a thing, but hasn't cared for the original scenes either, leaving them to fall into disrepair and only having 7 or 8 of the original 70 still lit, and none of them still functional. There are 2 directions Clifton Hill can go. With many attractions like the ones on HOCO's side being demolished to make way for whatever is trendy and lucrative, and many hanging on by a thread like Castle Dracula or Ghostblasters, the Hill is in real danger of becoming an endlessly overturning and developing area. However, with money recently being poured back into attractions like the Haunted House, Ripley's, and Guinness and attractions being redeveloped like the Falls Ave. complex or the Big Top Mirror maze, there is hope. If people, including the companies that own them, can recognise the historical value of attractions like Castle Dracula, The House of Frankenstien, Movieland, Tussaud's, etc., this can be promoted and the recent nostalgia boom can create large profits if this is played up. Additionally, future developments can still be more in the vein of what WHLLG envisioned for Clifton Hill, or what the Burlands recently did with the well done Big Top Mirror Maze. This is both profitable and economically sensible, as repeat customers that make memories and come to the area for generations with occasional new updates/re-themings (like what Clifton Hill did from the 50s-2010s), is far more profitable than a constantly turning over wave of new developments that cost millions to build that changes with each generation. Thank you to everyone who has followed this series. Sorry for the length of this, but I promised this would be the last installment, so it has to be longer. If you have any information pertaining to Dazzleland or anything you know that I didn't cover in this series, let me know. Additionally, if you would like me to dig up photos on anything that I mentioned in the series, let me know, as unless it's the Dazzleland dragon, I probably have a photo of it. I will likely post many of them here anyway in time. Thanks again.
Unlike my previous post, this post will be for original cities rather than renamed ones. These can be more fantastical than the real world, too, operated on superhero comic rules. Some people are born with superpowers. Magic and supernatural creatures are real, albeit kept secret from the mundane world. Aliens occasionally invade, advanced technology can be found in many mad scientist labs, but the world as a whole is still recognizable as our own.
Platinum City - A sparkling American east coast city, it's skyline covered in glass skyscrapers with monorails arcing between important buildings, this is one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world. It was always home to the prestigious Argent University of Science, but the city truly grew after a normally horrible accident. Research into the metahuman gene in the late 70s went wrong and polluted the soil and water in the area. Nearly 1 in 4 people born in the city are born with the metahuman gene. People flocked here hoping to give their future generations a better life. By the 90s, many tweens began manifesting powers and the city practically became a warzone. It was here that the concept of superheroes and supervillains became widespread. Those who didn't go mad with power found themselves using their powers to improve the city in the 2000s, leading it to the grand state it's in now.
St. Vladimir - This Minnesotan city and the surrounding suburbs are more important to the world than most realize. While the mundane world knows of the powerful Russian mafia which seems to control the area, few know that these mafiosos are monster hunters. The city is silently in a feud between the hunters, vampires, and the black magic practitioners who flock to the city. Wendigos and ghouls lurk through the alleyways while vampires control many large businesses. The only reason the monsters remain is because of the structure that has formed, allowing most to obtain the necessary blood, flesh, and (in the warlocks' case) ritual components required for them to stave off death/starvation/their demonic masters.
The Burg - a floating city composed of powerless folks trying to get away from the metahumans, the people there call it the last bastion of humanity if the "superfreaks" ever decide to destroy everything. This city floats around near the Arctic circle and is mostly a lashed together boat city. (u/seriousd6)
Hana - well hidden desert city where the residents (powered and not) all live in harmony under a caring leader who is committed to stop the research into metahuman genetics, and believes that researchers in this field are performing harmful experiments on the people to further their ends. (u/seriousd6)
The Cap - an extremely mechanical city (think steampunk) where a niche metahuman group has decided to band together, this has become a haven for all those with heat-related powers. The price for living is to help run the boilers that power the city, the reward is community and safety in numbers. (Bonus points if it is on or near a volcano) (u/seriousd6)
Willowville- A small USA southern town. In the 1930s a small meteorite crashed and it’s strange ore contaminated the land and water. Generations later children are being born with powers, but the town leaders are doing al they can to keep it secret. (u/ravi95035)
Peninsula City - west coast USA city founded by three supers in the late 1800s that now serves as a sanctuary city for supers. (u/ravi95035)
Nairos - Northern African city protected by the Warriors of Clay (sentient clay golems), a safe haven for supers in that global area. (u/ravi95035)
Salem's Burrow, Kansas- An unassuming farm town in the middle of no where. Most of the roads are dirt with a spartan few asphalt roads. Corn fields as far as the eye can see with an occasional old house or a different crop breaking the rows for a moment before more corn fields. In reality, it hides a troll market with tunnels from every basement and farm house (basically a market that sells everything from legitimate merchandise to slaves to counterfeit goods to black magic rituals schematics). All the farmers are the same entity that can manifest in various forms perfectly who been serving fey folks, supers, humans, and freaks as a cover for the eyes of various "unaligned" and hostile groups though only the most ancient beings know this secret. (u/Th3R3493r)
The Okínihaŋ Reservation: It is a series of reservation Native American Reservation in South and North Dakota. Before the Government and pioneers came, the tribes stretched over the Great Plains. Now on the surface, it is the remnants of various tribes who run an empire of casinos and try to keep their traditions alive. Due to their legal system being different and the state of world, they operate a covert mercenary corps comprised of various "monsters" as most would call them from Lechuza (owl-women who specialized in nighttime recon and target extractions), Skin walkers (various roles from combat to subterfuge), Teihiihan and Nimerigar (supposedly dead formerly cannibalistic races of dwarf-like operators who are now engineering and forensic experts), Kushtaka (otter-men who aid forces in stealth maritime offensives), and various others including a few "Gods from the Time the Earth was new". They cover it up with actors and legitimate conspiracy theorist on the fringes constantly given every direction but the right ones. (u/Th3R3493r)
!!! (pronounced by throwing your hands up and stomping loudly) or Paralite- It is an alien city nowadays. Not like tourist-trap towns, the aliens are there. !!! was secretly founded in 1956 by ⏃⌰⟊⍜⊑⋏ ⋔⏃⋏⌇⍜⋏ (in English, Al'John Manson) a "supposedly" exiled prince of scavenger civilization who brought a ⟟⌇☌⏃⌰⏃⋏⏁⟟⏃⋏ (Isgalantian) warship to the back yard of a doomsday prepper by the name of Jonathon Manson who became his advisor after this superpower of universal translation was found out accident as he cussed the alien warship out in fluent ☊⍜⋔⋔⍜⋏ (Common). After the CIA was tasked to "peacefully" resolve the problem and ⏃⌰⟊⍜⊑⋏ ⋔⏃⋏⌇⍜⋏ made a agreement to help forward technology to bested the Reds (who obtained scraped and damaged tech from the Tunguska event of 1908 and "The Night of Green Lights"), the town became a headquarter for the Black Suits (MiB like organzation) and a safe haven. With the first Cold War ending when the re-release of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin by an unknown cosmic entity, the town was silently reclassified and became another Silicon Valley under the name Paralite and a embassy for friendly extraterrestrial alien lifeforms. (u/Th3R3493r)
The Arks - it is a secret system of floating city much like the Burg, but, more selective of their population. Supers, Aliens, Freaks, Cryptids and Normals are equally accepted and screened with any possible damning flaws or factors will be grounds of denial or termination if they are compromised after entry. The Arks are attempts as an ultramodern semi-utopia and a backup plan if the sea rising causes the civilization to have go to sea permanently. While organized crime syndicates still attempt to get a foot hold on them, all attempts have been unsuccessful and unprofitable for now. But, as long the Arks are on the horizon and shanty town of boats trail behind them waiting for the day they can take an Ark for their side and to use as a forwarding base for operations. (u/Th3R3493r)
Big Mountain, Nevada (Big Empty or Big MT) - formerly a government ran town that held the "best and brightest that the world had to offer". Long story short, "best and brightest" did not account for morals. So, with blank checks without a concern for ethics, morality, and human rights, It became a refugee full of mad scientist, mutants, mutates, and cyborgs. The current overseer has the town look and play like a sitcom 1950's suburbia minus most of the prejudices with the motto "Est Normalis Nova Impar (The Odd New Normal)". The Government officials supposed to run it were blacklisted for "being communist sympathizers" for various unsupported reasons in McCarthy's Witch Hunts. The town is still running on the funds from selling man-made precious metals and stone while in the guise of an unprofitable dying mining town on IRS records. (u/Th3R3493r)
Carne Quemada, Texas - A small unassuming city founded near several important intersections after the rise of the railroad in America. If there was a head of livestock bound for the East Coast from West Coast, It went through Carney before heading further. On the surface, It is just another drive-by town with the headquarter of a small family ran butcher shop/BBQ joint, but, it is ran by puppet officials controlled a old money family, Navaneeth, that specializes in the Arcane Arts and Dark Arts. The family patriarch is reportedly over 2800 years old but still looks to be in his late 50 and in the body of an Olympian. This family has their hands in the rise and fall of nearly every major meat based company since the apex of Rome. 'Word to the Wise' is do NOT try to spread vegan or animal rights propaganda in the town unless you want to "go missing" and end up as the unquestioning "circuitry" of the eco-friendly automation in a far off slaughterhouse. (u/Th3R3493r)
Capitol City, Ambiguous America - A large, metropolitan city with an Important American Landmark (capitol, museum, etc.). The city magically shifts forms and locations from time to time, leaving the inhabitants with no memory of it. No matter the form or location of the city it always represents an important part of American society. Capitol City exists within its own bubble, where people forget that leaving is an option. Whenever an alien, supervillain, kaiju, or magic-user attacks, chances are, it'll be here. The city has its own stock of good magic-users, superheroes, and military units, but these seem to shift in and out of being depending on the "genre" of the current disaster. In reality, Capitol City was created by a guild of powerful sorcerers who decided there should be somewhere on Earth to absorb disasters. It acts as a magnet for bad things and changes depending on what is needed to protect the rest of the world. (u/relinquisher42)
Timeline of FBC History: Altered Items, Objects of Power, and AWEs
I created a timeline of the Bureau's history leading up to Control, as described in documents, multimedia, cutscenes, and NPC chatter. It includes all the known Altered Items, Objects of Power, and AWEs, plus significant events from Control and Alan Wake. The most surprising thing I discovered was Trench was living with the Hiss in his head for 17 years before the events of Control. Talk about a slow burn! I'm really excited to share this! I combed through every collectible in the game, so it took awhile to put together. Do you see anything interesting or surprising? I'm also happy to accept edits or additions with a source.
Year
Events
Source
1915
The owner of the Victorian Mirror (AI60-UE) becomes fixated with it and is admitted to a mental ward.
Case Files: Mirror Supplement
1923
The population of Hoer Verde, Brazil, mysteriously disappears in a possible AWE.
Multimedia: America Overnight Ep. 349
XXXX
The FBC, or a group that will eventually become the FBC, is formed.
1954
The Oscillator (AI3-KE) is acquired. William S. Powers, Head of Department of Public Knowledge and Diversions, creates the legend of “fan death” in Korea.
Case Files: Fan Supplement
1952
Carl Jung publishes an essay on synchronicity.
1959
The Research Department at the FBC is created by Dr. Theodore Ash, Head of Research. He wants to expand on Carl Jung’s work on synchronicity. The Game Hammer (AI5-BE) is acquired.
Research: Synchronicity, Case Files: Hammer Procedures
1964
The official, public-facing year the FBC was formed. The Oldest House is discovered while FBC agents are investigating a suspected AWE in the New York City subway tunnels. The Service Weapon (OOP1-KE) is discovered inside the Oldest House. Northmoor binds it, and the room in which it’s discovered becomes the Director’s Office.
Correspondence: Visitor Evaluations, Multimedia: The Oldest House, Research: Service Weapon
1965
The Hotline (OOP3-UE) spontaneously appears in the Director’s Office. Northmoor binds it.
Research: Hotline
1967
The Waist Mannequin (AI7-KE) is discovered in Maine.
Case Files: Mannequin Procedures, Case Files: Mannequin Supplement
1968
The FBC makes the Oldest House its official headquarters.
Multimedia: The Oldest House
1970
Thomas Zane and the eruption of the Cauldron Lake Volcano are investigated in Bright Falls, Washington.
Case Files: Bright Falls Summary
1974
The Floppy Disk (OOP5-KE) is stolen from a Soviet military base by the CIA, then transferred to the FBC. The Arctic Queen (AI10-KE) is acquired from the Grand Central Hotel in New York City.
Case Files: Floppy Disk, Case Files: Refrigerator Procedures
1976
The Old Gods of Asgard create moonshine with unfiltered water from Cauldron Lake and use it to give their songs power. The FBC investigates them. The Ocelot’s Anchor (AI11-UE) is acquired from the wreckage of the White Ocelot.
Alan Wake, Case Files: Bright Falls Summary, Case Files: Anchor Supplement
1978
Parautilitarian Alan Wake is born. Odin and Tor Anderson, the Old Gods of Asgard, are investigated again in Bright Falls, Washington. An FBC intern picks up the Hotline and dies.
Alan Wake, Case Files: Bright Falls Summary, Multimedia: Hotline
1979
The Benicoff TV (OOP7-KE) is acquired in Kansas. The Smoking Pram (AI13-KE) is acquired in Paris, France.
Case Files: Benicoff TV, Case Files: Pram Procedures
1980
The Holiday Memories Tree (AI14-AE) is acquired from a Canadian research station on Ross Island, Antarctica. Identification Formulas are discovered.
Case Files: Plastic Tree Procedures, Case Files: Plastic Tree Supplement
1983
The Swan Boat (AI19-KE) is acquired on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Case Files: Swan Boat Procedures
1986
The Jasper Post Box (AI31-PE) is acquired in Jasper Crossing, Arizona.
Case Files: Post Box Supplement
1989
The Ashtray and Cigarette (OOP11-KE) is acquired and bound to Trench.
Case Files: Ashtray and Cigarette
1990
America Overnight, an FBC-funded radio show on superstitious topics, starts broadcasting. (“Broadcasting the truth […] for 29 years and counting.”)
Multimedia: America Overnight Ep. 352, Multimedia: America Overnight Ep. 356, Multimedia: America Overnight Ep. 359
1991
Parautilitarian Jesse Faden is born.
1992
Parautilitarian Dylan Faden is born. The Butte AWE (AWE-17) occurs in Butte, Montana. Agents discover a light switch cord that takes them to the The Oceanview Motel and Casino for the first time.
Case Files: Butte Summary
1993
The Emergency Call AWE (AWE-18) occurs, where a woman is trapped in a phone.
Emergency Call Summary, Emergency Call Supplement
1994
The Guru Surfboard (AI43-PE) is acquired from the home of Chester Bless.
Case Files: Surfboard Procedures
XXXX
Dr. Casper Darling, Head of Research, is hired. (Note: This is based on Darling saying, “I’ve been here 24 years now.” That would be 1995 if it were recorded in 2019, but it may have been recorded earlier.)
Multimedia: Research Sector
1996
Alan Wake, 18, publishes his first short story.
The Alan Wake Files
1997
The Pink Flamingo (AI46-KE) is acquired.
Case Files: Pink Flamingo Procedures
1998
The Merry-Go-Round Horse (OOP16-KE) is acquired from an abandoned amusement park after a tip from America Overnight.
Case Files: Merry-Go-Round Horse
1999
The Red Light (AI49-KE) is acquired.
Case Files: Traffic Light Procedures
2000
Alan Wake, 22, gains international recognition for his first Alex Casey book. Jesse Faden, 9, discovers the Old Gods of Asgard album Rebirth through her father.
Alan Wake, Research: Album Cover
2001
The Rubber Duck (AI52-AE) is acquired from an FBC agent’s home. The Simulacrum (AI53-KE) is acquired from inside the Bureau.
Case Files: Rubber Duck Procedures, Case Files: Water Cooler Procedures
XXXX
Trench loses his daughter, Susanna, to an unknown paranatural illness. His wife, Kate, leaves him. Trench creates the Panopticon, a "maximum security prison" for Altered Items.
Hotline: Prime Candidates, Hotline: Panopticon, Langston cutscene
XXXX
Trench creates the first Northmoor Sarcophagus Container, NSC-01, while he is still Deputy Chief. Northmoor uses his abilities to make the power plant disappear in a possible escape attempt. A new power plant, NSC-02, is built with improved restraints. Northmoor is placed back inside.
Research: NSC
XXXX
Trench picks up the Service Weapon and is “promoted” to Director by the Board.
Hotline: Northmoor
XXXX
Trench implements the internal lockdown security protocol requiring directorial override. (Note: Trench says this happens in his first few years of being Director.)
Hotline: Internal Lockdown
XXXX
Trench creates the Prime Candidate program, but P1 through P5 are “dead ends”.
Hotline: Prime Candidates
2002
The Bremen Basket (AI54-UE) is acquired. (Note: This document contains an addendum from 1997, suggesting the acquisition date on file may be incorrect.) The Ordinary AWE (AWE-24) occurs in Ordinary, Wisconsin. Dylan Faden, 10, and Jesse Faden, 11, discover the Slide Projector at the local dump. The town’s adult population disappears. Dylan is interviewed and abducted by the FBC. Jesse escapes, guided by an extradimensional entity she calls Polaris. The Slide Projector (OOP15-UE) is acquired.
Trench leads an expedition into Slidescape-36. A lingering Hiss resonance burrows into Trench on the first expedition. Darling discovers Hedron. (Note: A photo of Hedron appears in the background of Darling’s videos about Dylan, so Hedron was discovered before Dylan killed the agent.)
Threshold Kids is developed to give Dylan a kid-friendly introduction to paranatural topics. Dylan is bound to the Floppy Disk. (Note: There is no explicit documentation about this, but NPC researchers in the Executive Sector reveal P6 was more gifted at launching objects than Northmoor. This ability also matches the P6 Victim Autopsy report.) Dylan is the most gifted parautilitarian the Bureau has ever seen, but kills an FBC agent with his new abilities. Marshall advises Darling and Trench to stop training Dylan.
The X-Ray Light Box (OOP18-PE) is acquired after an incident in a hospital. It is used to facilitate Astral dives in the Astralnaut program.
Case Files: X-Ray Light Box, Research: Astralnauts Information
2004
“Get Well” Balloon (AI58-KE) is acquired from the child’s ward of a hospital.
Case Files: Balloon Procedures
2005
The Victorian Mirror (AI60-UE) is acquired in Illinois.
Case Files: Mirror Procedures, Case Files: Mirror Supplement
2006
The Albany AWE (AWE-29) occurs in Albany, New York. The Human Hand Chair (AI63-KE) is acquired.
Case Files: Albany Summary, Case Files: Hand Chair Procedures
XXXX
Emily Pope is hired as a Junior Researcher. (Note: She describes the Ordinary AWE as “before [her] time” in a cutscene, so she is hired at least a few years after 2002.)
Emily Pope cutscene, Research: Pope’s Promotion
XXXX
Dylan Faden kills more FBC agents. Darling is heartbroken and creates the Dimensional Research department. He moves the Slide Projector there for extensive study. (Note: This happens after Emily is hired, because Darling mentions she may be suspicious about his new project.) Trench creates the Ashtray Maze.
Multimedia: Dylan Faden, Correspondence: Dump Cessation of Work Order, Hotline: Ashtray Maze
2008
The Ramen Lantern (AI69-KE) is acquired.
Case Files: Paper Lantern Procedures
2010
Jesse Faden, 19, starts therapy. The Wolff Globe (AI72-PE) is acquired in Toronto.
The Bright Falls AWE (AWE-35) occurs in Washington. The Oh Deer Diner Coffee Thermos (AI73-UE) is acquired. During the Bright Falls AWE, Clay Steward appears in Bright Falls and fights the Dark Presence alongside Alan Wake. He wakes up in Madison, Wisconsin, believing it was a dream.
Case Files: Bright Falls Summary, Case Files: Thermos Procedures, Alan Wake
2011
Clay Steward writes The Alan Wake Files. The FBC flags him as a minor parautilitarian.
The Alan Wake Files, Case Files: Bright Falls Supplement
2014
The Moving Letters (AI77-KE) are acquired. The Home Safe (OOP22-KE) is acquired in Ohio.
Case Files: Letters Procedure, Case Files: Home Safe
2016
The Sterling AWE (AWE-46) occurs in Sterling, Colorado. A hollow, stone-like sphere manifests in a field. Alberto Tommasi, Head of Communications, is hired.
Case Files: Sterling Summary, Research: Tommasi’s ID, Multimedia: America Overnight Ep. 356
2017
Lin Salvador, Head of Security, is hired. The Havana AWE (AWE-48) occurs at a US Embassy in Havana, Cuba.
The Willow AWE (AWE-XX) occurs in Alaska. Like the Sterling AWE, a hollow, stone-like sphere is among the recovered items. The Typewritten Page (AI83-KE) is acquired from the Oceanview Motel and Casino. Polaris asks Dylan for his help, but he refuses. Jesse Faden dreams that Polaris is calling to her from New York and she starts traveling. Trench stops using the Hotline. A month later, he uses the Slide Projector to open a door for the Hiss. Jesse arrives in New York City.
A half-breed Indian who made his tribe a multi-millionaire. Jim Hookipa
Seminoles have lived in Florida since ancient times. For more than 40 years, they fought for their freedom in countless skirmishes and 3 bloody wars. But the forces were unequal, and in 1858, after the Third Seminole War, almost the entire tribe was evicted from their native lands to distant Oklahoma. Only about 200 Indians escaped the General sad fate and disappeared into the vast tropical swamps of the Everglades, where they engaged in cattle breeding, somehow making ends meet, because there were few pastures, more swamps. There, under the protection of Panthers, alligators, and malaria, they felt comparatively safe. In early 1944, in Florida, a Seminole Agnes Billy of the Bird clan had a boy born out of wedlock. My father was an Irishman, a cadet at the naval aviation school that was based near the reservation. In 1943, he went to war without even knowing about his girlfriend's pregnancy. Mother called son Chukie, which means "the one who was taken."The shamans of the tribe did not recognize the half-breed baby and decided to get rid of it, sentencing it to death. The boy was saved from death by his mother's friend, Potaki, who was also a half-breed. The women raised a terrible cry, the neighbors ran, and Potaki publicly vowed that she would inform the police if anyone touched the baby. Jim Hukipi and his mother lived very poorly, and when he was 9 years old, she died. The first orphan was sheltered by his mother's parents, but soon became them, and Hokie homeless. But his rescuer Potaki, who felt responsible for the teenager, took care of him and kicked him to school. Over time, it became difficult to cope with the boy and he was sent to the Haskell boarding school in Kansas, a special school where they tried to teach the Indians how to become white. A few years later, with grief in half, Jim received a school diploma and returned. Strong, cunning, agile, tough, and a natural leader, he was created to become a Ranger for the U.S. army. The Vietnam war was breaking out, and that was where he belonged. The jungle was like the Everglades, but without alligators,and the war was like hunting. Jim distinguished himself very soon, he was promoted to Sergeant, appointed commander of the Department, and began to give tasks more and more complex. Capture languages, raids behind enemy lines, reconnaissance and other activities of the Rangers he liked. His group often went on a knife edge, but always returned without loss. The blood of his brave ancestors played a role, and Jim could feel ambushes, traps, mines, and poisonous snakes on his skin. It seemed that luck would never leave him, and his companions were ready to follow him into the fire and water. After serving a full term in the Inferno, he had every right to go back, but signed up for another term. Ranger didn't want to leave his comrades, but he liked the risk. Again, RAID after RAID, task after task, and success after success. Jim soon became a master Sergeant and Deputy platoon commander. He would have been sent to officer courses, but he did not show any desire. After another successful RAID in 1968, he was given the highest award of a soldier, a vacation home. When Jim returned, he learned the terrible news that the platoon's luck had run out without him. Friends went on another task, but with them there was no "one who was taken away", and there was no one to smell the danger in time. The platoon was ambushed and only its name remained. Something broke inside, and Jim blamed himself for the deaths of his comrades. "What am I fighting for? he thought, and couldn't find an answer. The fight was abruptly stopped, and the depression started in my head swarmed dark thoughts. After completing his term, he left the army and returned to the reservation. The boy Hukipi matured, matured, and adult beyond his years, he felt pain for his tribe, which looked at new look. Beggars, reduced to despair and alcohol, living on handouts, without prospects and hope, and yet... such relatives. Jim remembered his skills as a Builder and started building Chiki, traditional Seminole homes. Hollywood did its job and the Indian theme became popular. Chukie decided on this play, saying: "This Chica can build only a true Indian. Everything else is nothing more than a fake."Very soon his Chicks appeared in parks, private clubs, and in the yards of the rich. Business quickly grew and he became one of the most successful members of the tribe (although the entire tribe was less than 1.5 thousand people). Now it was possible to deal with public Affairs. The problem was obvious, the reservation was chosen by drug couriers as a transit point. Seaplanes loaded with cocaine from Central America regularly landed in the swamps, and from there the poison spread further. The former special forces officer decided: "we need to eliminate the root cause."He loaded a revolver, took a Winchester in the boat, and persuaded a couple of friends, also veterans of the Vietnam war, to go with him. Then from the marshes began to hear gunfire and explosions, but Hookie always came out unscathed. Very soon, the drug traffic through the reservation disappeared forever. Hokie admired, began to be afraid, his voice on the tribal Council became very important and in 1979-m to year Hokie became the Supreme leader. Jim announced, " it's time for a change. We are Seminoles, we are a great tribe, and it is time for us to regain our greatness." The chief received the tribe in a very deplorable state. But Hokie was a clear plan:"we Should open on the RES hall to play Bingo. If it goes well, we'll open a casino."He considered the situation and realized that he needed serious help. A friend told him about an old man-a pensioner who can help. This grandfather's name was Mayer Lansky. Mayer Lansky was a well-known figure in the underworld. He was the brain of a huge underground Empire that controlled the Jewish and Italian mafia. Hokie got a meeting with an old gangster. Old Mayer was sitting at a table. He looked tired and listless. "So I know why you came to me. Why do you need money? Lansky asked. "I want to open a case."started Hookipa. "You want to start a business and get rich."- with a grin said the pensioner. The Indian understood that full frankness was needed with Meyer. Something leaped in his chest and he spoke, breaking into a low cry: "Yes, I want to be rich, I won't deny it. Everyone wants it. But more than that, I want to finally get my tribe out of the shit we've been living in for more than 120 years. Do you know what it's like to live on a reservation? Live outside the line like animals? When people look down on you with disdain? I grew up on a chimpanzee farm, and I remember that tourists looked at me and the monkeys as curiosities. We live in bestiality, we have a beggar sitting on a beggar and driving beggars, and everyone is trying to somehow feed themselves. Land, freedom, and pride were taken from us, and in return they gave us alcohol and meager handouts. We have almost lost our language and our faith. From day to day, from year to year, from decade to decade, it's the same thing. We will soon stop being ourselves. You will not believe it, but many of us almost can not read and write. I am not the prophet Moses who brought you out of Egypt, but I love my little people. And I want, I really want to make it prosperous. And I will do it, no matter what it takes. I could, of course, succeed for myself by going somewhere else, but is it worthy of a man? If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am only for myself, then why am I? And if not now, then? Do you understand me, Mr. Lansky???" Mayer was no longer sprawled out. His hands were clenched into fists, his eyes glittered, and his face was tight with muscle. It seemed that the old bandit remembered something, something long forgotten, but painfully native. Hokie paused, and Lansky looked at him, breathing hard. "I heard you. I understand you. the old man dropped it slowly. "I used to be myself... however, let's not talk about it.. Lansky sighed heavily. "And how will you perform this miracle?" "I want to open a bingo hall where people can play big. If it goes well, then open a casino. I think there will be a lot of demand."the chief replied. "My boy, I understand you. Casinos in Florida. This is a pipe dream of my life. There are thousands of problems and pitfalls on the way, but the main ones are two. The first is this Catholic Church and Archbishop McCarthy himself, the head of the Catholic Church in Florida. The priests hold the "bingo for charity" market firmly in their tenacious hands. These bigots with a mind so Holy, and in fact, much worse than the gangsters from the East side, so I do know. They fill their pockets, buy real estate and jewelry, and if they allocated at least one percent of what they have for good deeds, they could feed all the world's hungry for 10 years. The second difficulty is that the bureaucrats will never be allowed to open a casino in Florida. It's easier to negotiate with the wall. If you knew how much money, time, and effort my friends and I spent on these stupid and stubborn donkeys in Tallahassee (the capital of Florida). These fools can't see past their noses. Oh, if I could open a casino in Florida, do you think I'd be interested in opening casinos in Las Vegas, Cuba, and the Bahamas? No, son, I really want to help you, but it's not possible."Mayer said sadly. "Mr. Lansky, I know what you're capable of. If there is a wizard in the world, it is you. I understand that you didn't succeed, but I will open a bingo hall and a casino." "My dear fellow, as soon as you open the doors, the police will come and close the shop. And you will lose in court." "You see, I have two trumps that you and your friends didn't have. Listen." And, carefully looking around, Hokie whispered something almost in my ear Lansky. Old Mayer's mouth dropped open in surprise. "It can't be. My boy, are you sure? Is this really true?"what is it?" he asked. - "Certainly. Why else would I come to you? However, your lawyers will be able to verify my words."Yes," said the chief. - "Amusingly. Here is the deal, this is on our way. Yes... it's going to be a nice job, we'll RUB the nose of these bureaucrats." Lansky had a mischievous smile on his face. "So you will give money?"asked Hokie. "Where did I get the money? I live on a modest pension. But I have a good friend, Jack Cooper, I think if I ask him very much, he will not refuse the loan. Perhaps I can persuade some of my friends to politely ask the Archbishop not to interfere with us. I also know a couple of lawyers who will agree to help us for a nominal amount. By the way, you will need a good adviser on a regular basis. I would suggest an old friend of mine, Stephen Wilden. He is a reliable man, by the way, also served two terms in Vietnam."- almost accidentally showed his awareness of the gangster. "And to manage the casino itself, I have in mind a guy from a very good family, his name is James Weissman. A very competent young man, and his brother, Eugene, can also help with various minor difficulties. You're not going to object if the order will be watching very responsible and decent people? Lansky half-asked, half-pointed, and stared at Hukipi. "Of course I won't! Agreed. I am very happy."the chief replied, and they shook hands. Cooper did lend money to the Indians without complaint, and Wilden began to spend a surprising amount of time on the reservation. And the Weissman brothers gave up all their business altogether and began to focus solely on helping the Seminoles. And very soon a new building with a major bingo game opened on the reservation. And the amazing thing is that Archbishop McCarthy has not objected to bingo on the reservation and even good luck to Jim. As Lansky predicted, the police showed up on the first day and arrested employees and managers. And of course the Seminoles sued, claiming they had every right to do anything on their land. "This is not acceptable. What kind of arbitrariness? Your Honor, we must close this receptacle of Vice and sin."- officials groaned. - "Really. The only place where gambling is allowed in the United States is Nevada. Do you have any arguments in your favor?" "We have two, Your Honor."don't be embarrassed," said Jim Billy and his lawyers. "First, look at the precedent. Russell and Elena Bryan, from the Chippewa tribe, lived quietly on a reservation in Minnesota. All of a sudden, the state sends them a property tax bill that they've never paid before. They challenged it, the case went to the Highest Court, and he decided that: a) the state does not have the right to collect taxes on business or property on the reservation b) the state has no right to regulate the business of Indians on their land. And the bingo hall is just the business on our land. And second and foremost, Your Honor, we are not part of the United States at all. All Indian tribes surrendered to the U.S. government. Some earlier, some later, but all signed peace agreements and in fact admitted defeat. Everyone but us. We are the only tribe that has never surrendered to the palefaces. Our ancestors went to the Everglades, but they didn't give up. We are still at war with you. Since when does anyone have the right to dictate terms and indicate what to do to an undefeated opponent on their land?" After hearing such arguments, the judge was forced to make a fair decision: - " the Seminoles should be left alone. Let them do what they want on their land, even play bingo, even open a casino. And neither the state nor the feds have the right to take a cent from their income." And the money flowed to the reservation. Soon Jim opened a casino and the flow of money increased. The tribe paid its debts to Cooper ahead of time, though all the people recommended by Lansky remained in charge of the business. However, is it a pity some 47% of profits for good and honest people, especially if they are so good at helping business development. Moreover, they advised how to correctly open other casinos. For example, in Tampa, they decided to build a large Parking lot, but it turned out that this place is an ancient burial of Seminoles. "I will not allow the pale-faces to defile the graves of our ancestors. Or have you forgotten that we are still officially at war with you? If so, I'll remind you. We'll give You the fourth Seminole War. We lit the fires of combat and beat Tom-Toms" - shouted angrily Hokie. - "Oops. We didn't even know. Forgive us. What do you want?"- the mayor's office asked, confused. "Okay, so be it, build your Parking lot."- was replaced by anger at the mercy Hokie. "Just give us a piece of land to bury our ancestors in another place, but still not far from the city." "Ufff. That's all. You are welcome. This is a great place, right next to the highway and not far from the city. Just do everything culturally and organize a Museum. We will study you."- happily breathed out officials. - "Perfectly. Agreed."grinned the leader .... the Seminoles built a second casino. "Er, that's not what we agreed to."no!" yelled the bureaucrats. - "So we are about the world, too, did not agree and the Tomahawks we are not buried" - wisely said Jukie. "Where's the Museum??? Where is he? Keep your word!" "Where? Yes, inside the casino. Come and take a look. the chief laughed. And the stream of money became a full-flowing river. There was so much money that the Seminoles even bought a stake in a casino on St. Martin and started building more casinos in Florida. True, there were dirty rumors that almost disinterested Seminole assistants were taking cash out of hundreds of boxes in private planes to various offshore locations, but all curious people were shown documents that clearly said they were taking food for the needy, and ridiculous rumors were a shame to believe. The leader gained strength and developed a stormy activity. Electric companies that laid their networks, gas companies that stretched their pipes, garbage processing companies that buried waste, and other companies that rented land from the Seminoles for a penny, received an unpleasant surprise. "That's it, the freebie is over."said Hokie. "Now you will pay a fair rent. Otherwise, you will all go away." Jim knew perfectly well that companies that had buried pipes and networks worth tens of millions would not go anywhere and would accept all his terms. And the flow of money has become even greater. For almost 22 years, Hukipi led his small tribe with an iron hand. He became the highest-paid employee in Florida. Hukipi established a system of dividends for each Seminole, created a special Fund that provides any absolutely free medical care to all members of the tribe, and established schools on the reservation where learning the native language and traditions was mandatory. Moreover, every Indian can now get an education at any University in the United States and does not have to pay a penny for it. Money was invested in real estate, energy, tourism, securities, and of course ... in the new casino. Money brought money and the tribe grew rich before our eyes. The Indians had beautiful new homes and expensive cars. But everything ends sooner or later, the chief noticed that the Council of chiefs began to spend a lot of money on themselves. Each of the leaders spent unaccountable millions and did not even think to answer to the tribe. And when Hokie was outraged and decided to investigate, he was dismissed from the post of the Supreme leader. As usual, the official reason was accusations of sexual harassment of a subordinate. Then he was accused of corruption and abuse of power. But the former chief sued and... won. As a result, the tribe paid him more than $600,000. He retired, started building his Chiki again, and lived happily ever after. But the tribe is mired in corruption and scandals, because big money brings big problems. And in 2011, Hukipi was elected chief again. Hukipi broke up corrupt officials, stopped the vicious practice of paying minors ' money to parents who might have squandered it, put things in order in reporting, and invested in new projects. Surprisingly, without corruption, there was again extra money, which turned into additional dividends for the Indians. Now every adult Seminole, in addition to free medicine and education, receives $128,000 a year. And the money of minors now goes to a special trust so that every member of the tribe reaches the age of 18 is already a multi-millionaire. In 2016, the year once again, the Council leaders decided to shift Jucie. It is visible it strongly interfered with a free life. Now Jim Hookipa on the deserved rest. He is only 73 years old and still full of strength and energy. Who knows, maybe the Seminoles will need a strong hand and wise advice again, and then "the one who was taken" will again become a leader and lead his tribe to new heights. It is not for nothing that the popular wisdom says: "a Herd of rams led by a lion is much stronger than a flock of lions led by a RAM." More https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYpavSD9aALIt_lhde2Ewg?view_as=subscriber
The complete Turner Classics Movie airplay schedule for December, 2018.
Saturday, December 01, 2018 (12:15 AM) The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975/80min/Dean Hargrove) (2:00 AM) Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1996/96min/Sarah Jacobson) (3:45 AM) I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (1993/25m/Sarah Jacobson) (4:30 AM) The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness (1972/22m/William Templeton) (4:30 AM) The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene (1970/22min/William Templeton) (4:30 AM) Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965/29m/George J. Yarbrough) (6:00 AM) Edison, The Man (1940/107min/Clarence Brown) (8:00 AM) MGM CARTOONS: Peace on Earth (1939/9m/Dir: Hugh Harman) (8:10 AM) Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948/11m/Jack Scholl) (8:21 AM) Beautiful Banff and Lake Louise (1935/8m/Benjamin D. Sharpe) (8:30 AM) Song of the Saddle (1936/58m/Louis King) (9:30 AM) MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN: Across the Deadline (serial) (1939) (10:00 AM) POPEYE: Bridge Ahoy! (1936/7 m/Dave Fleischer) (10:08 AM) The Penguin Pool Murder (1932/65m/George Archainbaud) (11:30 AM) Luckiest Guy in the World (1946/21m/Joseph Newman) (12:00 PM) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944/113m/Vincente Minnelli) (2:00 PM) The Petrified Forest (1936/82m/Archie L. Mayo) (3:30 PM) The Story Of G.I. Joe (1945/109m/William A. Wellman) (5:30 PM) The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965/139m/Carol Reed) (8:00 PM) Beyond Tomorrow (1940/84m/A. Edward Sutherland) (9:45 PM) The Bishop’s Wife (1947/109m/Henry Koster) Sunday December 02, 2018 (12:00 AM) Crack-Up (1946/93m/Irving Reis) (2:00 AM) Magnum Force (1973/122m/Ted Post) (4:00 AM) The Ice Pirates (1984/94m/Stuart Raffill) (6:00 AM) MGM Parade Show #18 (1955/26m) (6:30 AM) It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947/115m/Roy Del Ruth) (8:30 AM) A Christmas Carol (1938/69m/Edwin L. Marin) (10:00 AM) Crack-Up (1946/93m/Irving Reis) (11:45 AM) Adam’s Rib (1949/101m/George Cukor) (1:45 PM) The Catered Affair (1956/94m/Richard Brooks) (3:30 PM) Bells Are Ringing (1960/126m/Vincente Minnelli) (5:45 PM) Charade (1963/113m/Stanley Donen) (8:00 PM) The Shop Around The Corner (1940/99m/Ernst Lubitsch) (10:00 PM) Holiday Affair (1949/87m/Don Hartman Monday, December 03, 2018 (12:00 AM) Pandora’s Box (1928/134m/G.W. Pabst) (2:30 AM) Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1977/202m/Chantal Akerman) (6:00 AM) West of Zanzibar (1928/65m/Tod Browning) (7:15 AM) Another Dawn (1937/73m/William Dieterle) (8:30 AM) Watusi (1959/85m/Kurt Neumann) (10:00 AM) Congo Maisie (1940/71min/Henry C. Potter) (11:15 AM) Savage Splendor (1949/60m) (12:30 PM) Trader Horn (1931/123m/W.S. Van Dyke II) (2:45 PM) Drums Of Africa (1963/91m/James B. Clark) (4:30 PM) Song of Freedom (1936/77m/J. Edgar Willis) (6:00 PM) King Solomon’s Mine (1950/103m/Compton Bennett) (8:00 PM) The Kennel Murder Case (1933/73m/Michael Curtiz) (9:30 PM) The Drago Murder Case (1934/67m/H. Bruce Humberstone) (10:45 PM) The Casino Murder Case (1935/83min/Edwin L. Marin) Tuesday, December 04, 2018 (12:15 AM) The Bishop Murder Case (1930/87min/Nick Grindé) (2:00 AM) The Garden Murder Case (1936/61m/Edwin L. Marin) (3:15 AM) Calling Philo Vance (1939/62m/William Clemens) (4:30 AM) Shining Victory (1941/80m/Irving Rapper) (6:00 AM) My Dream Is Yours (1949/101m/Michael Curtiz) (7:45 AM) Lullaby of Broadway (1951/92m/David Butler) (9:30 AM) Starlift (1951/103m/Roy Del Ruth) (11:30 AM) April in Paris (1952/100m/David Butler) (1:15 PM) Lucky Me (1954/101m/Jack Donohue) (3:00 PM) Love Me or Leave Me (1955/122m/Charles Vidor) (5:15 PM) Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962/127m/Charles Walters) (7:30 PM) MGM Parade Show #18 (1955/26m) (8:00 PM) Norma Rae (1979/115m/Martin Ritt) (10:15 PM) Boys Town (1938/93m/Norman Taurog) Wednesday December 5, 2018 (12:00 AM) Sister Kenny (1946/116m/Dudley Nichols) (2:15 AM) Blossoms In The Dust (1941/100m/Mervyn Le Roy) (4:15 AM) Her Twelve Men (1954/91m/Robert Z. Leonard) (6:00 AM) So You Want to Be a Detective (1948/11m/Richard Bare) (6:15 AM) A Dangerous Profession (1950/79m/Ted Tetzlaff) (7:45 AM) Follow Me Quietly (1949/60m/Richard O. Fleischer) (9:00 AM) The Tattooed Stranger (1950/64m/Edward J. Montagne) (10:15 AM) Mystery Street (1950/93m/John Sturges) (12:00 PM) Crime Wave (1954/74m/Andre De Toth) (1:15 PM) While the City Sleeps (1956/100m/Fritz Lang) (3:00 PM) Scene of the Crime (1949/94m/Roy Rowland) (4:45 PM) The Naked City (1948/96m/Jules Dassin) (6:30 PM) The Big Combo (1955/84m/Joseph Lewis) (8:00 PM) Marriage - Italian Style (1964/102m/Vittorio De Sica) (10:00 PM) Human Voice (2014/26m/Edoardo Ponti) (10:45 PM) Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival: Sophia Loren (2016/66m/Sean Cameron) Thursday, December 06, 2018 (12:00 AM) Two Women (1960/96m/Vittorio De Sica) (2:00 AM) Lady L (1965/108m/Peter Ustinov) (4:00 AM) Brass Target (1978/111m/John Hough) (6:00 AM) Bonnie Scotland (1935/80m/James W. Horne) (7:30 AM) The Flying Deuces (1939/69m/A. Edward Sutherland) (8:45 AM) Pardon Us (1931/70m/James Parrott) (9:45 AM) Nothing But Trouble (1944/69m/Sam Taylor) (11:00 AM) Our Relations (1936/73m/Harry Lachman) (12:30 PM) Way Out West (1937/65m/James W. Horne) (1:45 PM) Saps At Sea (1940/57m/Gordon Douglas) (2:45 PM) Midsummer Night's Dream (1935/143m/Max Reinhardt) (5:15 PM) The King’s Vacation (1933/61m/John G. Adolfi) (6:30 PM) College Coach (1933/76m/William A. Wellman) (8:00 PM) Blessed Event (1932/80m/Roy Del Ruth) (9:30 PM) 42nd Street (1933/89min/Lloyd Bacon) (11:15 PM) Footlight Parade (1933/103m/Lloyd Bacon) Friday December 7, 2018 (1:15 AM) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933/98m/Mervyn Le Roy) (3:15 AM) Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935/95m/Busby Berkeley) (5:00 AM) Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936/101m/Lloyd Bacon) (6:45 AM) Baby Doll (1956/115m/Elia Kazan) (8:45 AM) How The West Was Won (1962/165m/John Ford) (11:30 AM) Hell to Eternity (1960/132m/Phil Karlson) (1:45 PM) December 7th: The Movie (1943/82m/John Ford) (3:15 PM) Air Force (1943/124m/Howard Hawks) (5:30 PM) Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944/138m/Mervyn Le Roy) (8:00 PM) The Graduate (1967/106m/Mike Nichols) (10:00 PM) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968/102m/Norman Jewison) Saturday, December 08, 2018 (12:00 AM) Thunder Road (1958/93m/Arthur Ripley) (2:00 AM) Death By Invitation (1971/82m/Ken Friedman) (3:45 AM) Horror Hotel (1960/78m/John Moxey) (5:30 AM) Age 13 (1955/27m/Arthur Swerdloff) (6:00 AM) Saturday's Children (1940/102m/Vincent Sherman) (8:00 AM) MGM CARTOONS: The Captain's Christmas (1938/8m/Charles M. Jones) (8:09 AM) Strauss Fantasy (1954/10m) (8:19 AM) Handlebars (1933/10m/Dir: Jules White) (8:29 AM) Trailin' West (1936/56m/Noel Smith) (9:30 AM) MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN: Terror Rides the Rails (serial) (1939) (10:00 AM) POPEYE: What--No Spinich? (1936/6m/Dave Fleischer) (10:08 AM) Murder on the Blackboard (1934/72m/George Archainbaud) (11:30 AM) Polar Outpost (1957/15m/Jerome Brondfield) (12:00 PM) Meet John Doe (1941/123m/Frank Capra) (2:15 PM) Three Godfathers (1936/81m/Richard Boleslawski) (3:45 PM) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944/130m/Irving Rapper) (6:15 PM) The Fastest Gun Alive (1956/89m/Russell Rouse) (8:00 PM) Holiday Inn (1942/101m Mark Sandrich) (10:00 PM) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942/113m/William Keighley) Sunday December 9, 2018 (12:00 AM) Too Late for Tears (1949/101m/Byron Haskin) (2:00 AM) Make Way For Tomorrow (1937/92m/Leo McCarey) (3:45 AM) Ruggles of Red Gap (1935/91m/Leo McCarey) (6:00 AM) Little Women (1949/122m/Mervyn Le Roy) (8:15 AM) Christmas in Connecticut (1945/101m/Peter Godfrey) (10:00 AM) Too Late for Tears (1949/101m/Byron Haskin) (12:00 PM) Out of the Past (1947/97m/Dir: Jacques Tourneur) (1:45 PM) Young Man With a Horn (1950/112m/Michael Curtiz) (3:45 PM) Lust For Life (1956/122m/Vincente Minnelli) (6:00 PM) Top Secret Affair (1957/100m/H. C. Potter) (8:00 PM) It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947/115m/Roy Del Ruth) (10:15 PM) O. Henry's Full House (1952/118m/Henry Koster) Monday December 10, 2018 (12:30 AM) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925/143m/Fred Niblo) (3:00 AM) The Bad Sleep Well (1960/151m/Akira Kurosawa) (6:00 AM) Whistling In The Dark (1933/79m/Elliott Nugent) (7:30 AM) They Call It Sin (1932/69m/Thornton Freeland) (8:45 AM) Man Wanted (1932/62m/William Dieterle) (10:00 AM) Day of Reckoning (1933/69m/Charles Brabin) (11:15 AM) Beauty for Sale (1933/87m/Richard Boleslavsky) (12:45 PM) Private Lives (1931/84m/Dir: Sidney Franklin) (2:15 PM) Murder in the Private Car (1934/63m/Harry Beaumont) (3:30 PM) The Women in His Life (1933/75 minutes/George B. Seitz) (4:45 PM) Born to Dance (1936/106m/Roy Del Ruth) (6:45 PM) Four Girls In White (1939/74m/S. Sylvan Simon) (8:00 PM) The Monster and the Girl (1941/65m/Stuart Heisler) (9:15 PM) Towed in a Hole (1932/21m) (9:15 PM) Helpmates (1932/21m/James Parrott) (10:15 PM) Paths Of Glory (1958/88m/Stanley Kubrick) Tuesday December 11, 2018 (12:00 AM) It's A Gift (1934/68m/Norman McLeod) (1:30 AM) Mr. Love (1986/91m/Roy Battersby) (3:30 AM) Winter People (1989/110m/Ted Kotcheff) (5:30 AM) MGM CARTOONS: The Pup's Christmas (1936/8m/Hugh Harman) (6:00 AM) Make Me A Star (1932/86m/William Beaudine) (7:30 AM) Hollywood Party (1934/69m/Allan Dwan) (8:45 AM) Goldie Gets Along (1933/68m/Malcolm St. Clair) (10:00 AM) Boy Meets Girl (1938/86m/Lloyd Bacon) (11:30 AM) The Great Morgan (1946/57m/Nat Perrin) (12:30 PM) In Person (1935/87m/William A. Seiter) (2:00 PM) Lady Killer (1933/76m/Roy Del Ruth) (3:30 PM) Expensive Husbands (1937/62m/Bobby Connolly) (4:45 PM) Super Sleuth (1937/70m/Ben Stoloff) (6:00 PM) Singin' in the Rain (1952/103m/Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen) (8:00 PM) Stagecoach (1939/96m/John Ford) (10:00 PM) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966/131m/Mike Nichols) Wednesday December 12, 2018 (12:30 AM) Easy Rider (1969/95m/Dennis Hopper) (2:30 AM) Mildred Pierce (1945/11m/Michael Curtiz) (4:30 AM) The Mark of Zorro (1920/107m/Fred Niblo) (6:00 AM) Speedway (1968/94m/Norman Taurog) (8:00 AM) Girl Happy (1965/96m/Boris Sagal) (10:00 AM) The Trouble With Girls (1969/99m/Peter Tewksbury) (12:00 PM) Elvis: That's The Way It Is (1970/95m/Denis Sanders) (2:00 PM) Kissin' Cousins (1964/96m/Gene Nelson) (4:00 PM) Jailhouse Rock (1957/97m/Richard Thorpe) (6:00 PM) It Happened At The World's Fair (1963/105m/Norman Taurog) (8:00 PM -6:00 AM) TBD Thursday, December 13, 2018 (6:00 AM) MGM Parade Show #18 (1955/26m) (6:30 AM) Patterns (1956/84m/Fielder Cook) (8:00 AM) The Prowler (1951/93m/Joseph Losey) (10:00 AM) Act of Violence (1949/82min/Fred Zinnemann) (11:30 AM) Tennessee Johnson (1942/103m/William Dieterle) (1:30 PM) Happiness Ahead (1934/86m/Mervyn Le Roy) (3:00 PM) Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934/90m/Ray Enright) (4:45 PM) Page Miss Glory (1935/93m/Mervyn Le Roy) (6:30 PM) Hearts Divided (1936/76m/Frank Borzage) (8:00 PM) Shipmates Forever (1935/109m/Frank Borzage) (10:00 PM) Flirtation Walk (1934/98m/Frank Borzage) Friday December 14, 2018 (12:00 AM) Colleen (1936/90m/Alfred E. Green) (1:45 AM) Dames (1934/91m/Ray Enright) (3:30 AM) Stage Struck (1936/92m/Busby Berkeley) (5:15 AM) Broadway Gondolier (1935/99m/Lloyd Bacon) (7:00 AM) Safe in Hell (1931/73m/William A. Wellman) (8:30 AM) Isle of Fury (1936/60m/Frank McDonald) (9:45 AM) Men in Exile (1937/58m/John Farrow) (11:00 AM) Strange Cargo (1940/113m/Frank Borzage) (1:00 PM) The Most Dangerous Game (1932/63m/Ernest B. Schoedsack) (2:15 PM) The Most Dangerous Game (1959/67m/Frank W. Tuttle) (3:30 PM) From Hell It Came (1957/71m/Johnny Greenwald) (4:45 PM) Enchanted Island (1958/94m/Allan Dwan) (6:30 PM) The Lost Continent (1968/83m/Michael Carreras) (8:00 PM) The Blackboard Jungle (1955/101m/Richard Brooks) (10:00 PM) To Sir, With Love (1967/105m/James Clavell) Saturday December 15, 2018 (12:00 AM) Shaft (1971/100m/Gordon Parks) (2:00 AM) Thank God It's Friday (1978/89m/Robert Klane) (3:45 AM) Rappin' (1985/92m/Joel Silberg) (5:30 AM) Gang Boy (1954/27m/Arthur Swerdloff) (6:00 AM) Room for One More (1952/95m/Norman Taurog) (8:00 AM) MGM CARTOONS: Alias St. Nick (1935/10m/Hugh Harman) (8:11 AM) Do Someone a Favor! (1954/9m/Dave O’Brien) (8:20 AM) Bargain Madness (1951/10m/Dave O’Brien) (8:30 AM) Treachery Rides the Range (1936/56m/Frank McDonald) (9:30 AM) MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN: The Unseen Monster (serial) (1939) (10:00 AM) POPEYE: I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936/6m/Dave Fleischer) (10:08 AM) Murder on a Honeymoon (1935/74m/Lloyd Corrigan) (11:30 AM) Seasoned Greetings (1933/20m/Roy Mack) (12:00 PM) Holiday Affair (1949/87m/Don Hartman) (1:45 PM) Broken Arrow (1950/93m/Delmer Daves) (3:30 PM) The Naked and the Dead (1958/131m/Raoul Walsh) (5:45 PM) The Loved One (1965/121m/Tony Richardson) (8:00 PM) Trail Of Robin Hood (1950/67m/William Witney) (9:30 PM) 3 Godfathers (1949/106m/John Ford) (11:30 PM) Star in the Night (1945/22m) Sunday December 16, 2018 (12:00 AM) Talk About A Stranger (1952/65m/David Bradley) (1:30 AM) The Thrill Of It All (1963/108m/Norman Jewison) (3:30 AM) Midnight Lace (108m/1960/David Miller) (5:30 AM) MGM Parade Show #18 (1955/26m) (6:00 AM) The Shop Around the Corner (1940/99min/Ernst Lubitsch) (8:00 AM) In the Good Old Summertime (1949/103m/Robert Z. Leonard) (10:00 AM) Talk About A Stranger (1952/65m/David Bradley) (11:30 AM) She Done Him Wrong (1933/65m/Lowell Sherman) (1:00 PM) The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946/170m/William Wyler) (4:00 PM) It Happened One Night (1934/105m/Frank Capra) (6:00 PM) Third Man (1949/105m/Carol Reed) (8:00 PM) Meet Me In St. Louis (1944/113m/Vincente Minnelli) (10:00 PM) Little Women (1994/115m/Gillian Armstrong) Monday December 17, 2018 (12:00 AM) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927/81m/Carl Th. Dreyer) (2:00 AM) Children Of Paradise (1945/190m/Marcel Carné) (5:15 AM) TBD (6:00 AM) Villain (1971/98m/Michael Tuchner) (7:45 AM) Rififi (1955/118m/Jules Dassin) (10:00 AM) The Asphalt Jungle (1950/112m/John Huston) (12:00 PM) Kansas City Confidential (1952/99m/Phil Karlson) (1:45 PM) Compliments of the Season (1930/14m/Arthur Hurley) (2:00 PM) The Getaway (1972/123m/Sam Peckinpah) (4:15 PM) High Sierra (1941/100m/Raoul Walsh) (6:00 PM) White Heat (1949/113m/Raoul Walsh) (8:00 PM) Lady On A Train (1945/94m/Charles David) (10:00 PM) Lady In The Lake (1947/103m/Robert Montgomery) Tuesday December 18, 2018 (12:00 AM) Fitzwilly (1967/103m/Delbert Mann) (2:00 AM) Crooks Anonymous (1962/88m/Ken Annakin) (3:45 AM) Cover-Up (1949/83m/Alfred E. Green) (5:15 AM) Backfire (1950/91m/Vincent Sherman) (7:00 AM) Alice Adams (1935/99m/George Stevens) (8:45 AM) The Nitwits (1935/82m/George Stevens) (10:15 AM) Swing Time (1936/104m/George Stevens) (12:15 PM) Quality Street (1937/83m/George Stevens) (1:45 PM) Vivacious Lady (1938/90m/George Stevens) (3:30 PM) Gunga Din (1939/117m/George Stevens) (5:45 PM) Woman of the Year (1942/114m/George Stevens) (8:00 PM) Double Dribble (1946/7min/Jack Hannah) (8:00 PM) The Absent-Minded Professor (1961/96m/Robert Stevenson) (10:00 PM) Son of Flubber (1963/100m/Robert Stevenson) Wednesday December 19, 2018 (12:00 AM) The World's Greatest Athlete (1973/93m/Robert Scheerer) (2:00 AM) DISNEY: The Olympic Champ (1942/7m/Jack Kinney) (2:07 AM) The Strongest Man in the World (1975/92m/Vincent McEveety) (4:00 AM) DISNEY: How To Play Football (1944/7m/Jack Kinney) (4:07 AM) Gus (1976/96m/Vincent McEveety) (6:00 AM) Private Lives (1931/84m/Sidney Franklin) (7:30 AM) The Rich Are Always With Us (1932/71m/Alfred Green) (9:00 AM) The Keyhole (1933/69m/Michael Curtiz) (10:15 AM) The Goose and the Gander (1935/66m/Alfred E. Green) (11:30 AM) The Merry Wives Of Reno (1934/64m/H. Bruce Humberstone) (12:45 PM) Woman Against Woman (1938/61m/Robert B. Sinclair) (2:00 PM) In Name Only (1939/95m/John Cromwell) (3:45 PM) Affectionately Yours (1941/88m/Lloyd Bacon) (5:30 PM) Never Say Goodbye (1946/94m/James V. Kern) (7:15 PM) MGM Parade Show #18 (1955/26m) (8:00 PM) Bachelor Mother (1939/82m/Garson Kanin) (9:45 PM) Oliver Twist (1948/116m/David Lean) Thursday December 20, 2018 (12:00 AM) All Mine to Give (1957/102m/Allen Reisner) (2:00 AM) Lili (1953/81m/Charles Walters) (3:30 AM) Anne of Green Gables (1934/78m/George Nicholls Jr.) (5:00 AM) Meet the Missus (1937/61m/Joseph Santley) (6:00 AM) Stingaree (1934/76m/William Wellman) (7:30 AM) Show Boat (1936/114m/James Whale) (9:30 AM) No Other Woman (1933/58m/J. Walter Ruben) (10:30 AM) My Favorite Wife (1940/88m/Garson Kanin) (12:00 PM) A Guy Named Joe (1943/120m/Victor Fleming) (2:15 PM) Anna and the King of Siam (1946/128m/John Cromwell) (4:30 PM) Hard to Get (1938/82m/Ray Enright) (6:00 PM) Hollywood Hotel (1937/110m/Busby Berkeley) (8:00 PM) Christmas in July (1940/67m/Preston Sturges) (9:30 PM) You Never Can Tell (1951/78m/Lou Breslow) (11:15 PM) The Singing Marine (1937/105m/Ray Enright) Friday December 21, 2018 (1:15 AM) Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938/77m/Lloyd Bacon) (2:45 AM) Varsity Show (1937/80m/William Keighley) (4:15 AM) Going Places (1938/84m/Ray Enright) (5:45 AM) Naughty But Nice (1939/89m/Ray Enright) (7:30 AM) Ten Little Indians (1966/90m/George Pollock) (9:15 AM) On Dangerous Ground (1952/82m/Nicholas Ray) (10:45 AM) Winter Meeting (1948/104m/Bretaigne Windust) (12:45 PM) Snow Birds (1932/10m/Jules White) (1:00 PM) Snowed Under (1936/64m/Ray Enright) (2:15 PM)The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939/82m/Reinhold Schunzel) (3:45 PM) Canadian Carnival (1955/8m/Douglas Sinclair) (4:00 PM) Anna Karenina (1948/113m/Julien Duvivier) (6:00 PM) The Fearless Vampire Killers (or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck) (1966/107m/Roman Polanski) (8:00 PM) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961/115m/Blake Edwards) (10:15 PM) The Way We Were (1973/118m/Sydney Pollack) Saturday December 22, 2018 (12:30 AM) High Society (1956/112m/Charles Walters) (2:30 AM) Waikiki Wedding (1937/89m/Frank Tuttle) (4:15 AM) Santa Claus (1959/94m/Rene Cardona) (6:00 AM) Stars in My Crown (1950/89m/Jacques Tourneur) (7:45 AM) The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952/102m/John Brahm) (9:30 AM) Ben-Hur (1959/223m/William Wyler) (1:30 PM) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965/199m/George Stevens) (5:00 PM) King of Kings (1961/160m/Nicholas Ray) (8:00 PM) Remember the Night (1940/94m/Mitchell Leisen) (10:00 PM) Christmas in Connecticut (1945/101m/Peter Godfrey) Sunday December 23, 2018 (12:00 AM) Beware, My Lovely (1952/77m/Harry Horner) (1:45 AM) Period of Adjustment (1962/111m/George Roy Hill) (3:45 AM) A Carol for Another Christmas (1964/84m/Joseph L. Mankiewicz) (5:30 AM) MGM Parade Show #18 (1955/26m) (6:00 AM) Scrooge (1935/78m/Henry Edwards) (7:30 AM) A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011/58m/Laurent Bouzereau) (8:30 AM) Bush Christmas (1947/77m/Ralph Smart) (10:00 AM) Beware, My Lovely (1952/77m/Harry Horner) (11:45 AM) O. Henry's Full House (1952/118m/Henry Koster) (2:00 PM) Susan Slept Here (1954/98m/Frank Tashlin) (4:00 PM) All Mine to Give (1957/102m/Allen Reisner) (6:00 PM) Holiday Inn (1942/101m/Mark Sandrich) (8:00 PM) The Holly and the Ivy (1952/83m/George More O’Ferrall) (10:00 PM) A Christmas Carol (1951/87m/Brian Desmond-Hurst) Monday December 24, 2018 (12:00 AM) The King of Kings (1927/158m/Cecil B. De Mill) (2:45 AM) Fanny and Alexander (1982/189m/Ingmar Bergman) (6:00 AM) Beyond Tomorrow (1940/84m/A. Edward Sutherland) (7:30 AM) Little Women (1933/115m/George Cukor) (9:30 AM) The Great Rupert (1950/88m/Irving Pichel) (11:00 AM) Babes in Toyland (1934/78m/Gus Meins) (12:30 PM) The Shop Around the Corner (1940/99m/Ernst Lubitsch) (2:15 PM) Holiday Affair (1949/87m/Don Hartman) (4:00 PM) Christmas in Connecticut (1945/101m/Peter Godfrey) (6:00 PM) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944/113m/Vincente Minnelli) (8:00 PM) The Bishop's Wife (1947/109m/Henry Koster) (10:00 PM) A Christmas Carol (1938/69m/Edwin L. Marin) (11:30 PM) In the Good Old Summertime (1949/103m/Robert Z. Leonard) Tuesday December 25, 2018 (1:30 AM) Meet John Doe (1941/123m/Frank Capra) (3:45 AM) Desk Set (1957/104m/Walter Lang) (6:00 AM) Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938/91m/George B. Seitz) (8:00 AM) 3 Godfathers (1949/106m/John Ford) (10:00 AM) Bundle of Joy (1956/98m/Norman Taurog) (12:00 PM) Bachelor Mother (1939/82m/Garson Kanin) (1:30 PM) Fitzwilly (1967/103 m/Delbert Mann) (3:30 PM) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942/113m/William Keighley) (5:45 PM) It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947/115m/Roy Del Ruth) (8:00 PM) Some Like It Hot (1959/122m/Billy Wilder) (10:15 PM) Monkey Business (1952/97m/Howard Hawks) Wednesday December 26, 2018 (12:15 AM) Lover Come Back (1961/107m/Delbert Mann) (2:15 AM) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936/116m/Frank Capra) (4:30 AM) Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941/71m/Edward Cline) (6:00 AM) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947/95m/Irving Reis) (7:45 AM) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944/118m/Frank Capra) (10:00 AM) Suspicion (1941/99m/Alfred Hitchcock) (12:00 PM) Bringing Up Baby (1938/102m/Howard Hawks) (2:00 PM) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948/94m/H.C. Potter) (3:45 PM) Topper (1937/97m/Norman Z. McLeod) (5:30 PM) North by Northwest (1959/136m/Alfred Hitchcock) (8:00 PM) Smokey and the Bandit (1977/96m/Hal Needham) (10:00 PM) Deliverance (1972/109m/John Boorman) Thursday December 27, 2018 (12:00 AM) The Longest Yard (1974/121m/Robert Aldrich) (2:15 AM) Hooper (1978/99m/Hal Needham) (4:15 AM) Smokey and the Bandit II (1980/99m/Hal Needham) (6:00 AM) Best Friends (1982/109m/Norman Jewison) (8:00 AM) The Wasp Woman (1960/61m/Roger Corman) (9:15 AM) The Fly (1958/94m/Kurt Neumann) (11:00 AM) Susan Slept Here (1954/98m/Frank Tashlin) (1:00 PM) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952/118m/Vincente Minnelli) (3:00 PM) Meet The People (1944/100m/Charles Riesner) (4:45 PM) It Happened Tomorrow (1944/85m/René Clair) (6:15 PM) The Reformer and the Redhead (1950/90m/Norman Panama) (8:00 PM) Murder, My Sweet (1944/95m/Edward Dmytryk) (9:45 PM) The Pitfall (1948/86min/Andre De Toth) (11:30 PM) Cornered (1946/103m/Edward Dmytryk) Friday December 28, 2018 (1:30 AM) The Tall Target (1951/78m/Anthony Mann) (3:00 AM) Station West (1948/80m/Sidney Lanfield) (4:30 AM) Right Cross (1950/90m/John Sturges) (6:30 AM) Broadway Rhythm (1944/115m/Roy Del Ruth) (8:30 AM) Broadway Melody Of 1936 (1936/101m/Roy Del Ruth) (10:30 AM) Broadway Melody Of 1938 (1937/111m/Roy Del Ruth) (12:30 PM) Broadway Melody Of 1940 (1940/102m/Norman Taurog) (2:30 PM) Broadway Serenade (1939/113m/Robert Z. Leonard) (4:30 PM) Two Girls On Broadway (1940/73m/S. Sylvan Simon) (6:00 PM) The Barkleys of Broadway (1949/109m/Charles Walters) (8:00 PM) A Hard Day's Night (1964/87m/Richard Lester) (9:45 PM) Jailhouse Rock (1957/97m/Richard Thorpe) (11:30 PM) Tommy (1975/112m/Ken Russell) Saturday December 29, 2018 (1:30 AM) A Star Is Born (1954/176m/George Cukor) (4:45 AM) Neptune’s Daughter (1949/93m/Edward Buzzell) (6:30 AM) The Mad Miss Manton (1938/80m/Leigh Jason) (8:00 AM) TOM AND JERRY: Ventriloquist Cat (1950/7m/Tex Avery) (8:08 AM) Master Will Shakespeare (1936/11m/Jacques Tourneur) (8:19 AM) So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck (1946/11m/Richard Bare) (8:30 AM) Guns of the Pecos (1937/56m/Dir: Noel Smith) (9:30 AM) MANDRAKE, THE MAGICIAN: At The Stroke of Eight (serial) (1939) (10:00 AM) POPEYE: Let’s Get Movin’ (1933/6min/Dave Fleischer) (10:07 AM) Murder On A Bridle Path (1936/66m/Edward Killy) (11:30 AM) The Future Is Now (1955/15m/Larry O’Reilly) (12:00 PM) A Tale of Two Cities (1935/126m/Jack Conway) (2:15 PM) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942/88m/Orson Welles) (4:00 PM) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948/126m/John Huston) (6:15 PM) Ride The High Country (1962/94m/Sam Peckinpah) (8:00 PM) The Young In Heart (1938/91m/Richard Wallace) (10:00 PM) Keeper of the Flame (1943/101m/George Cukor) Sunday December 30, 2018 (12:00 AM) Double Indemnity (1944/108m/Billy Wilder) (2:00 AM) Lifeboat (1944/97m/Alfred Hitchcock) (4:00 AM) Titanic (1953/98m/Jean Negulesco) (6:00 AM) 42nd Street (1933/89m/Lloyd Bacon) (7:45 AM) Kings Row (1942/127m/Sam Wood) (10:00 AM) Double Indemnity (1944/108m/Billy Wilder) (12:00 PM) Love Me or Leave Me (1955/122m/Charles Vidor) (2:15 PM) Gigi (1958/115m/Vincente Minnelli) (4:30 PM) Doctor Zhivago (1965/200m/David Lean) (8:00 PM) The Maltese Falcon (1941/100m/John Huston) (10:00 PM) Casablanca (1942/103m/Michael Curtiz) Monday December 31, 2018 (12:00 AM) Piccadilly (1929/109m/E.A. Dupont) (2:00 AM) Winter Light (1962/81m/Ingmar Bergman) (3:30 AM) The Silence (1964/95m/Ingmar Bergman) (5:30 AM) Double Wedding (1937/87m/Richard Thorpe) (7:00 AM) I Love You Again (1940/99m/W.S. Van Dyke II) (8:45 AM) The Thin Man (1934/91m/W.S. Van Dyke II) (10:30 AM) After The Thin Man (1936/112m/W.S. Van Dyke II) (12:30 PM) Another Thin Man (1936/103m/W.S. Van Dyke II) (2:30 PM) Shadow of the Thin Man (1941/97m/W.S. Van Dyke II) (4:15 PM) The Thin Man Goes Home (1945/100m/Richard Thorpe) (6:15 PM) Song of the Thin Man (1947/86 m/Edward Buzzell) (8:00 PM) That’s Entertainment! (1974/135 m/Jack Haley, Jr.) (10:30 PM) That’s Entertainment! II (1976/129m/Gene Kelly)
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