Weekend Update 2020/09/06

[muktown128]

Never seen it either.  Heck, I never heard of Duel until the Trainworx truck came out. 

[wazzou]

Sheesh, I've seen at least 5 times.
It combined two of my childhood faves, trains and trucks.

[chicken45]

I first saw this movie in the late 80's. My dad worked 3-11 and would tape movies he didn't want to stay up to finish. I popped in that tape and it was Duel and was taped off TBS. I was instantly in love with that orange car.

The car started out clean.
Duel was a made for TV movie that got padded out for a theatrical release once people saw how successful it was. You may have to click the picture to get full size.

[tehachapifan]

On the mysterious push around the gate, that always stuck out to me a little too...although Spielberg did a good job of keeping the camera angle low so you really don't pay to much attention to it. He could've maybe done a closeup of a mock gate breaking, then have the mock gate on the ground for the low angle shot to perhaps be more convincing. But, I don't think Duel is really meant to be a plausible film, so some suspension of realism is to be expected.

[nkalanaga]

I've never WATCHED the movie, but my father did, and I was in the trailer at the time, so am familiar with the name.  I might have actually watched five minutes of it!

[Cajonpassfan]

I loved the movie, decades ago. Simple plot, but taken to the next level...
I made some more progress on the horribly oversized depot...coming along well.  Scruffy likes it, so all’s well...😻
The dining room is out of service though, not a peep from my wife...gotta love her for that alone..
Otto K.

[peteski]

I made some more progress on the horribly oversized depot...coming along well.  Scruffy likes it, so all’s well...😻
The dining room is out of service though, not a peep from my wife...gotta love her for that alone..
Otto K.

She's a keeper!
I'm surprised thought that she lets you do all that modeling (paint, glue, knives, etc.) on unprotected dining room table surface.  If I was her, I would have at least asked you to put some old newspapers down before doing all that work on it.   

Your kitty supervising the work is very cute.

[MK]

I was about to say if I did that on the dining room I would have to take up up a new hobby as my wife would cut off all my fingers!

[Kentuckian]

Kentuckian:  We've lived outside Grayson since the summer of 1978.  The town seems to have changed a LOT since I-64 was built, and US 60 was rerouted.  It's changed a lot more since we moved back here.  Where was the Gulf station?

Sorry for the late response; I had to do some research. It was somewhere on East Main Street around where Prichard School is now. I don't believe the building is still there.

[Cajonpassfan]

I was about to say if I did that on the dining room I would have to take up up a new hobby as my wife would cut off all my fingers!

Lol, perhaps I’m just a very lucky guy. I know I am, she’s a sweetheart and puts up with a lot more from me than models on the dining room table. Train models; the other kind, not so much😬
In my defense, the depot model is BIG, so I built it in subassemblies on the tray to the left of the picture, and the dining table was (mostly) spared. But,  if I did have a wife who’d insist I get another hobby, I’d get another wife. Just saying...
Otto K.

[peteski]

Lol, perhaps I’m just a very lucky guy. I know I am, she’s a sweetheart and puts up with a lot more from me than models on the dining room table. Train models; the other kind, not so much😬
In my defense, the depot model is BIG, so I built it in subassemblies on the tray to the left of the picture, and the dining table was (mostly) spared. But,  if I did have a wife who’d insist I get another hobby, I’d get another wife. Just saying...
Otto K.

Like I said, she's a keeper.
But if I was in your place, even if wifey didn't mention anything, I would have on my own covered that "good" dining room table to make sure that any possible accidents did not damage it. That's just  me . . .

[nkalanaga]

Kentuckian:  Probably not, although there is an old store/gas station/restaurant building a little east of the school, perched on supports above the river.  It's been closed for several years, but was open for quite a while after we moved here.  It might have been there, or near the old auto dealership, across Main St from what is now Pure Country Automotive's shops. the old McFarland-Murray Chevrolet.

There aren't many old buildings left on East Main.  I suspect most were torn down when it became US 60, after the freeway was built.

[chuck geiger]

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