a blast from the past....dulcimina, her life in town

[Gamma]

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifes...DULCIMINA_.asp

[Jangle]

Nice dig up Gamma. I remember listening to Duliminia as a child. I didn't have much of a choice because back then the radio was one of the main forms of home entertainment. My granny and aunts never missed an episode. Life was so simple back then ~sigh~

[Gamma]

yuh si how dulcimina brown? .....

karate georgie, the one footed martial arts expert was my favourite character!

there was a comic strip in the daily news with a character call "the tuffist"..

[Runawaybay]

Breddrin you are absolutely correct. Everything seemed less complicated back then. Weren't the characters Pressa Foot (the bad bwoy), Brother Emmanuel (the obeahman), and Melva from the series as well?

[Gamma]

big up miss lou...her contribution to jamaica is immeasurable and a something for which we could NEVER repay her.

a very special lady, VERY special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMjI2MH6UEI

[MdmeX]

Nice gamma. Nearly figget bout Life in Hopeful Village. Today, we really need the "Hopeful Village"

[Islandman]

I wonder if the tapes of these radio programs were preserved. ie Dulciminia, Flora Lee, etc. I don't know why I have a bad feeling that they were now. We have a poor record with that kind of thing.

I remember hearing Tony Cozier talk about the guy in Barbados who scratched the only tape of Yagga Rowes 302. Why? well because he needed a tape.

[MdmeX]

Damn - I figget Flora Lee, but remember Portia Faces Life.

It seems the Dulcimina photos were switched in the Observer:

A young Joan Walter during her days as Dulcimina

[Islandman]

Yeah i noticed that,

She was and still is a beautiful woman.

[Peter R]

Hold on... how old was she when she started on the programme? if she's 58/59 now and the show debuted in the mid-60's then she was just a teenager when she started? assuming she was there from day 1...
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[Gamma]

mi neva did like maths suh stap hat up mi brain!

[Willi]

Then there was "Prescott" on TV with the farrin Jamaican lady with the worst twang in the world. Dont forget "the FORTUNES of FLORA-LEE" either.

There were the Aussie soaps like "Belinda Barry- the lady with the face of an angel and the HEAT of a Devil!"

Finally who recalls the comic book called National Gas???

Life was not simple back then as we romanticize...Jamaica was under a lot of stress back then and things were changing faster than now.

[Gamma]

national gas was the BEST...i called one of the originaors about 012 years ago and they were trying to launch something but it neve seem to take off...national gas was a riot!!!

[Willi]

Yeah, we need something like this again.

That was comedic talent at its best.

[Jangle]

Lime Tree Lane?