efs4ever 3 #1 July 4, 2006 Video clips, actually. These are some stills from the video that will be made soon. It rained all weekend, so I'm working with capturing OLD videos. 14 years medium old. Did a tiny bit of photo chopping to remove bumps, etc. Laird had an owie on his lip from a hard opening. Skippy had an ugly "outie" etc. Brandi is about 22 now. (On the right) ______________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #2 July 5, 2006 I gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skycat 0 #3 July 5, 2006 QuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? I was about to make the same comment.....well that and look at chuck with all that hair. Fly it like you stole it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Merkur 1 #4 July 5, 2006 QuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? Obviously, that's the question everybody has in mind M.vSCR No.94 Don't dream your life - live your dream! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #5 July 6, 2006 QuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? He was born 42 years old and frozen in mud.My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #6 July 6, 2006 QuoteQuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? He was born 42 years old and frozen in mud. *** Where's the line for THAT?! Cause I'm getting worn out faster lately than a matinee midget at a donkey show! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slug 1 #7 July 6, 2006 QuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? Maybe the right combo of nylon, gun powder, and...... clean living almost forgot Jeans OOps damn spell checker I mean Genes Wonder if john knows were talking about him behind his back R.I.P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #8 July 6, 2006 Do you have any from the old Spaceland from the "olden" days? Around 1970?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
efs4ever 3 #9 July 6, 2006 QuoteDo you have any from the old Spaceland from the "olden" days? Around 1970? No, I arrived on the SPX scene in July 1985. My pictures begin in 1978 in Dallas and at DC 3 boogies. Wendy W has some. I put too many OLDS in there. It's really OLD OLD Spaceland. Anahuac was OLD. League City was OLD OLD. __________________________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #10 July 7, 2006 QuoteDo you have any from the old Spaceland from the "olden" days? Around 1970? Somewhere I have some form a road trip to jump the Otters in 1979. Dave Boatman and Mike Smith were running it then. I was on the load where they had their first bounce, I remember the humidity was so high I had to shorten my loop twice in 4 days. If I can locate them I’ll post a few.My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #11 July 7, 2006 QuoteI can locate them I’ll post a few. Please do. Don "Doc" Stewart was one of my first JMs and did a lot for me in the sport, especially for my first 100 jumps. I would love to see some pictures from back then to see if he actually looked that old back then too. Ok, seriously, I've heard numerous stories about the old-old Spaceland and I would love to see some pics to put faces to names and such.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zoobrothertom 5 #12 July 7, 2006 QuoteQuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? Maybe the right combo of nylon, gun powder, and...... clean living almost forgot Jeans OOps damn spell checker I mean Genes Wonder if john knows were talking about him behind his back That was my first thought! John, what's your secret? I know it ain't the good living!____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites zoobrothertom 5 #13 July 7, 2006 I noticed Mike Smith wasn't in there. Here's a funny one. I was on leave from Ft. Bragg around fall '83 or spring '84 and visiting Mom in Houston. I went out to Spaceland for the first time with a nonjumping high school buddy on a Wednesday after several days of thunderstorms. It was afternoon, clear skies and the parking lot was empty. We walk into the hangar and Mike is sweeping the floor. We introduce ourselves and soon notice that the phone keeps ringing but Mike keeps sweeping. "Uhm, Mike, are you gonna answer that?" "Nope." "Why not?" "I lock the keys in the office." So, after listening to the phone for about half an hour (folks calling to see if Spaceland will be open today), Mike says he'll take me and my buddy up to 4.5 for $10. Not only that, but he lent me his racer with a bandit (169 sq ft 9 cell, don't quote me on the square footage) and put my friend Scott in my wonderhog/stratostar so he could watch. Good memories...____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites efs4ever 3 #14 July 7, 2006 QuoteI noticed Mike Smith wasn't in there. Who? Himmmm? ______________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites JohnRich 4 #15 July 9, 2006 QuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? Well, the hair is a gray now instead of brown. And you can't see my belly in that photo - that's changed a bit too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wmw999 2,588 #16 July 10, 2006 Don was back in New England by 1979. But there were plenty of others of us out there; I have a few pictures in my gallery, and mark dickson has some in his as well. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites drjump 0 #17 July 10, 2006 Looks like Ron Mills was going bald way back then! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites efs4ever 3 #18 July 10, 2006 QuoteLooks like Ron Mills was going bald way back then! But that's not Ron Mills next to Mike Smith. _____________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites drjump 0 #19 July 10, 2006 He must be Ron's twin brother!!!!! Who is that beside Mike? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kkeenan 14 #20 July 11, 2006 QuoteDo you have any from the old Spaceland from the "olden" days? Around 1970? Spaceland didn't start until about '73 or so. I made my first jump at Doc's place in League City in '71, jumpmastered by Jesse Hall. As a matter of fact, today is my 35th anniversary of that jump. Woo Hoo. Kevin K._____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AggieDave 6 #21 July 11, 2006 QuoteAs a matter of fact, today is my 35th anniversary of that jump. Woo Hoo. Congrats! QuoteSpaceland didn't start until about '73 or so. I made my first jump at Doc's place in League City in '71, jumpmastered by Jesse Hall. Ok, didn't realize that. Doc Stewart talks about the other Doc fairly often. That's the timeframe I was thinking of then. I just had the dates wrong. I love the history of skydiving in TX. Its such a colorful past and its one that has shaped skydiving nationally. Sort of like last month, I met a guy who showed up to Aggieland that was jumping at Coulter Field in 1960. That's the earliest confirmed date I've been able to find. There are stories circulating that jumping has occured on Coulter Field since the mid/early 1950s. Ex Army paratroopers that bought surplus gear and would get a pilot some cash to take them up in what ever plane they had...still working on tracking down the actual dates. When I get to share a beer and listen to the stories from people that were involved with the JUMA jumpers, people like Kim Fuller, it just puts a big smile on my face. Its the sort of thing that needs to be recorded and written into a book. Stories of Texas' jumping past.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wmw999 2,588 #22 July 11, 2006 Doc Anagnostis ran a C-180 DZ in Hitchcock for many years while Spaceland was still operating. I think that before Dave Boatman and Jess Hall started/moved a DZ to League City, there was another in Dickinson, and I don't know who was involved in that one. I do know that there was a Spaceland at the airport (then with the same name) in mid-1975, because I tried to make a static line jump out of their Twin Beech. It was not a success, other than the whole living-through-it thing . Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites JerryBaumchen 1,468 #23 July 11, 2006 A little different thing on Houston jumpers. About '93 or so I attended the IEEE Convention (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers) in Chicago. And like the Symposium, there are many vendors with booths. As I was going from booth to booth glad-handing people I knew in the industry I met a company from Houston that made nylon cargo-handling slings. We were looking for a new supplier, so the next time I was in Houston I went over to look over their operation. I walk into the VP's office, set my briefcase down (it had a round USPA membership decal on it) and he says that his dad was President of USPA. It turns out this guy was the stepson of Ed Fitch. As they say, a small world. Jerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites efs4ever 3 #24 July 12, 2006 Here we go. Labor Day Boogie at Hitchcock / Spaceland. They would fly the Otter over to Hitchcock and back to Spaceland. ________________________________Russell M. 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zoobrothertom 5 #13 July 7, 2006 I noticed Mike Smith wasn't in there. Here's a funny one. I was on leave from Ft. Bragg around fall '83 or spring '84 and visiting Mom in Houston. I went out to Spaceland for the first time with a nonjumping high school buddy on a Wednesday after several days of thunderstorms. It was afternoon, clear skies and the parking lot was empty. We walk into the hangar and Mike is sweeping the floor. We introduce ourselves and soon notice that the phone keeps ringing but Mike keeps sweeping. "Uhm, Mike, are you gonna answer that?" "Nope." "Why not?" "I lock the keys in the office." So, after listening to the phone for about half an hour (folks calling to see if Spaceland will be open today), Mike says he'll take me and my buddy up to 4.5 for $10. Not only that, but he lent me his racer with a bandit (169 sq ft 9 cell, don't quote me on the square footage) and put my friend Scott in my wonderhog/stratostar so he could watch. Good memories...____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
efs4ever 3 #14 July 7, 2006 QuoteI noticed Mike Smith wasn't in there. Who? Himmmm? ______________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #15 July 9, 2006 QuoteI gotta question.... How come John Rich never ages?!? Well, the hair is a gray now instead of brown. And you can't see my belly in that photo - that's changed a bit too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,588 #16 July 10, 2006 Don was back in New England by 1979. But there were plenty of others of us out there; I have a few pictures in my gallery, and mark dickson has some in his as well. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drjump 0 #17 July 10, 2006 Looks like Ron Mills was going bald way back then! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
efs4ever 3 #18 July 10, 2006 QuoteLooks like Ron Mills was going bald way back then! But that's not Ron Mills next to Mike Smith. _____________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drjump 0 #19 July 10, 2006 He must be Ron's twin brother!!!!! Who is that beside Mike? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkeenan 14 #20 July 11, 2006 QuoteDo you have any from the old Spaceland from the "olden" days? Around 1970? Spaceland didn't start until about '73 or so. I made my first jump at Doc's place in League City in '71, jumpmastered by Jesse Hall. As a matter of fact, today is my 35th anniversary of that jump. Woo Hoo. Kevin K._____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #21 July 11, 2006 QuoteAs a matter of fact, today is my 35th anniversary of that jump. Woo Hoo. Congrats! QuoteSpaceland didn't start until about '73 or so. I made my first jump at Doc's place in League City in '71, jumpmastered by Jesse Hall. Ok, didn't realize that. Doc Stewart talks about the other Doc fairly often. That's the timeframe I was thinking of then. I just had the dates wrong. I love the history of skydiving in TX. Its such a colorful past and its one that has shaped skydiving nationally. Sort of like last month, I met a guy who showed up to Aggieland that was jumping at Coulter Field in 1960. That's the earliest confirmed date I've been able to find. There are stories circulating that jumping has occured on Coulter Field since the mid/early 1950s. Ex Army paratroopers that bought surplus gear and would get a pilot some cash to take them up in what ever plane they had...still working on tracking down the actual dates. When I get to share a beer and listen to the stories from people that were involved with the JUMA jumpers, people like Kim Fuller, it just puts a big smile on my face. Its the sort of thing that needs to be recorded and written into a book. Stories of Texas' jumping past.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,588 #22 July 11, 2006 Doc Anagnostis ran a C-180 DZ in Hitchcock for many years while Spaceland was still operating. I think that before Dave Boatman and Jess Hall started/moved a DZ to League City, there was another in Dickinson, and I don't know who was involved in that one. I do know that there was a Spaceland at the airport (then with the same name) in mid-1975, because I tried to make a static line jump out of their Twin Beech. It was not a success, other than the whole living-through-it thing . Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,468 #23 July 11, 2006 A little different thing on Houston jumpers. About '93 or so I attended the IEEE Convention (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers) in Chicago. And like the Symposium, there are many vendors with booths. As I was going from booth to booth glad-handing people I knew in the industry I met a company from Houston that made nylon cargo-handling slings. We were looking for a new supplier, so the next time I was in Houston I went over to look over their operation. I walk into the VP's office, set my briefcase down (it had a round USPA membership decal on it) and he says that his dad was President of USPA. It turns out this guy was the stepson of Ed Fitch. As they say, a small world. Jerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
efs4ever 3 #24 July 12, 2006 Here we go. Labor Day Boogie at Hitchcock / Spaceland. They would fly the Otter over to Hitchcock and back to Spaceland. ________________________________Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #25 July 12, 2006 QuoteHere we go. Labor Day Boogie at Hitchcock / Spaceland. They would fly the Otter over to Hitchcock and back to Spaceland. ________________________________ Now there is some old shit. A Piglet 35 container and Adidas jump boots.My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
