Nostalgia List #32

"It makes a rainbow, chocolate Nips!"
Nostalgia Lists contain various fun memories of the '60s, '70s and '80s. Everyone is encouraged to participate and add to these growing lists. Send in your list items to nostalgiamanilamail[at]yahoo[dot]com, and those chosen will be added to the next list. Please make sure to check past Nostalgia Lists to see if your list items have already been posted.

203. Windmill house sa Magallanes.

204. Turko Sauna Parlor sa Roxas Boulevard.

205. Takot na takot ka sa pelikula ni Julie Vega na "Mga Mata ni Angelita".

206. Nips commercial: "What can you do with a bag of Nips, what goes on before they touch my lips, it makes a rainbow, chocolate Nips!"

207. Lagi kang may dalang Ace brand na suklay sa back pocket ng pantlon mo. Nabibili sa mga sari-sari store, pero madalas madaling maubos ang kulay itim.

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SilverHawks: The Hardware Trap - Part 1 / Watch Cool 80s Cartoons DVD Quality Video

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Quicksilver goes undercover as a bandit to catch Hardware. First of a two-part episode.



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Apat Na Sikat: Sikat No More

By: Guillermo Ramos

A futile exercise in resurrecting dead careers via Google

In 1977 the king of local TV was Ike Lozada. The mammoth starmaker’s flagship shows were Big Ike's Happening on TV and Dambuhalang DJ on AM radio. The unholy coupling of these two spawned Apat Na Sikat (the Famous Four), a variety show brought to our living rooms by the manufacturers of cooking oil and condensed milk. Apat Na Sikat was sort of like the Donny and Marie Osmond Show without the Ice Angels, and Seeing Stars With Joe Quirino if the presenters had just sprouted body hair.

Winnie Santos, Don Don Nakar, Lala Aunor and Arnold Gamboa were the Apat Na Sikat. These four teenyboppers defined pop culture and fashion for my generation. And although I told my friends that I only watched James at 15, I was a closet fan.

The Apat Na Sikat were famous mostly for being related to bona fide famous people. Winnie Santos was the younger sister of Vilma Santos. She was the show's resident mestiza. Her favorite shirt was a red blouse with butterfly sleeves, and the fact that I remember this makes me feel like a pathetic refugee from the Seventees. Winnie tried to be her sister's clone: she did a TV version of Vilma's hit Trudis Liit, and she sang the Ate Vi anthems Paper Roses and My Boy Lollipop. Unlike her sister, who is still a terpsichorean wonder, Winnie could only dance the Lady Bump. The more she copied her sister, the more she receded into oblivion.

Vilma's career soared in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Winnie's nose-dived with the lifting of martial law in 1981, because we no longer required the services of a 17-year-old mestiza to remind us of our miseries. She eventually migrated to the US and never came back.

Like Winnie Santos, Lala Aunor achieved stardom through cloning. Her famous relative was her "sister", none another than Vilma's arch-nemesis, Nora Aunor. Later it was revealed that Lala was not Nora's sister, but her cousin. It didn't matter because she was a carbon copy of the Superstar—if the carbon had been used 1,000 times previously. Lala sounded so much like Nora, it was as if she had been lip-synching to Nora’s records. The memory of Lala Aunor in a Minnehaha Indian costume by way of Disneyland, singing Karen Carpenter's Top of the World, can only be erased by years of psychiatric therapy.

No one knows what Lala is doing now. I did a Google search for her and got exactly one hit. I had more hits with Eddie Boy Villamayor, but that is another story.

The boys of Apat Na Sikat led more interesting lives. Dondon Nakar, a.k.a. Guillermo Nakar III, was the grandson of the famous army general. A military camp in Laguna is named after him (the general, not Dondon). Of the four, Dondon Nakar had the most musical talent, which is to say that he could play the guitar and carry a tune. He was also the sexiest, and there was an edge to him. Dondon was a boy on the verge of manhood. He was quite a sex symbol; the problem was no one wanted him to be one.

Among his notable film appearances was Lipad, Darna, Lipad with the aforementioned Vilma Santos. His most famous line was: "Ate Darna, ang bato!" With his smiling almond eyes and his moreno looks, Dondon was an early Richard Gomez prototype. Too bad he never achieved Richard Gomez status. Over the years he's figured in minor drug offenses and sex scandals duly reported in the metro sections—not a good place for an ex-teen star to be mentioned. In the Eighties he tried to revive his music career by recording the theme of the TV soap Flor de Luna, but it didn’t work out. He was sighted recently in a Catholic Charismatic Renewal concert.

I could compare Arnold Gamboa's career to that of Mark Lester and Pepito Rodriguez. Arnold started out as a child star, and certainly was cute and innocent-looking. On Apat Na Sikat he was the resident mestizo, and was therefore paired with Lala Aunor. Of the four he had the longest showbiz career. He had a horde of fans, who lovingly called him Not Not. He was quite a looker, but in contrast to Dondon he always seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He always looked nervous onscreen, and later in his career, spoke in a voice two octaves lower. That is where the Pepito factor comes in.

After about fifteen years in showbiz, Arnold retired to lead a quiet life of a hotel concierge and was regular fixture at the Manila Hotel. The last time I saw Arnold was at the Manila Diamond Hotel. This Arnold Gamboa is not to be confused with another Arnold Gamboa, a basketball player who played for San Miguel Beer and the Philippine National team. There are more entries on Arnold Gamboa the basketball player than Arnold Gamboa the child actor on Google; the ratio is almost 9:2. Ironic that you name your son after a famous child star, then he becomes more famous than the famous person he was named after. I don’t blame the parents. It was 1973 when Arnold the basketball player was born and it was 1973 when Arnold the actor was gracing television screens singing Wheeeeeere is Love? and other songs from Oliver! Daddy, he’s so cute let’s name our child Arnold!

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Everything Counts - Depeche Mode 80's Music Video

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Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
"The graph on the wall tell a story of it all. Picture it now, see just how the lies and deceit gained a little more power."

1983 lumabas itong pangatlong single ng Depeche Mode mula sa kanilang album na pinangalang Construction Time Again. Ito ang unang industrial-inspired single ng grupo at maraming music critics ang nagsasabi na ito raw ang pinaka-unang English-language industrial pop hit. Naging malaking hit ang "Everything Counts" sa Pilipinas noong unang release ng single, hanggang pa sa paglabas ng Depeche Mode 101 album and documentary film noong 1989.

Maraming mga fans ang gumaya sa porma ng grupo. Nandoon na ang pagsuot ng suspenders at sumbrero na kagaya ng kay Martin Gore, at siyempre ginaya rin naman ang porma at buhok ng lead singer na si Dave Gahan. Matapos maging malaking mainstream success ang grupo, maraming umusbong na mga New Wave synth/keyboard bands sa Manila na halatang naimpluwensya sa style at musika ng Depeche Mode.

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Nights of Long Ago

By: Corazon F.

During the last powerful storm, we lost electrical power for 3days and 3 nights.There were inconveniences we had to deal with , foremost was the humidity and heat without air conditioning, not to mention all the contents of the refrigerator and freezer we had to throw away. But it was the stillness and quiet that cheered us up---as someone said--"away from the madding crowd"---no phone, TV , computer---just the soft tic-tac of our battery-operated desk clock.

The house looked different,with lighted candles at dusk. There was a warm glow, and things looked more cozy and intimate.Even Resty and I looked better .(LOL)

On the first night, we had supper by candlelight, though the fare was hardly the stuff you see served on candle-lit dinners. We had fried fish, tomatoes and achara, but that was one of our best meals. After dinner, we put our chairs by the window, where a mild breeze was wafting in bringing with it the scent of Honeysuckle from our garden. We talked and reminisced about so many things---our childhood, first crushes, first loves, our parents, everything about the good old days.

I was reminded of those nights when I was young and my parents would spend quiet time after dinner talking about their day. There were no distractions then, no computers, no phones ringing, TV was black and white. I remember my mother always requesting me to play the piano after supper, before we did our homeworks.As young ones then, we felt so safe and comforted just watching our parents so relaxed and enjoying the end of their busy day. This image of my family really evoked warm memories.

Resty and I found ourselves looking forward to the succeeding nights.. We recalled Philippine folk tales even daring into ghost stories. We sang songs, practiced some of the old Simbang Gabi favorites and he pretended to serenade me with "DAHIL SA 'YO", though refusing my request for him to serenade me from outside, with me looking down from the window---like a real HARANA---LOL.

Electric power is back now but we will always remember those three nights; nostalgic nights, nights of long ago.

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Legaspi Monument Photo 1910

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Voltes V: Episode 2 The Fate Of Planet Earth / Watch Cool 70s Cartoons DVD Quality Video

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Voltes V: Episode 2 The Fate Of Planet Earth

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