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Just wondering if any of you are soap opera fans? If not, what do you think about them?. I noticed ABC will be cancelling One life to live & All my Childern.

I think I was a sophmore in high school the first time I saw All my children..I watched it on & off for years & still catch a episode now & then even-though I am not a big Tv person anymore.

Susan (Erica) finally got her emmy..Remember that?...Well maybe not...anyway.....I guess the end of an era is upon us........I grew up with those two shows on the air. Just happened to have the Tv on last week & Oprah had all of Erica Canes boyfriends & husbands from the time she was with Phil Brent on the show........

Anyway......Change is good......

MISTAKE:......I never watched this show when I was a sophomore in school..It didn't start till the 1970's I graduated in 1969. Funny I thought I remembered coming home from school watching it....See how the mind can screw things up after years go by.....:)

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Permalink Reply by caseyjo on April 14, 2011 at 8:15pm

Funny you mention ironing..... Isn't that obsolete yet? I know what you mean about repetition....RIP All my children & One life to live......I dont even know if I'm curious as to what will be replacing them..

Permalink Reply by Quinn on April 15, 2011 at 4:58am

Never got into watching them. My Mom didn't watch them so I guess I never had an example to follow. Besides, I was rarely home during the day...I was either at school or at work or out playing.

I worked with a woman who recorded three or four of them and would watch at night.

Ironing isn't obsolete :-) I love to iron.

Permalink Reply by caseyjo on April 15, 2011 at 10:42am

I never watched them after school either (see above correction)....It was this show I would run home after school to watch...It was the major adams trailmaster series 1963 to 1965.

Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1957–1962 and then onABC from 1962–1965 (the network also aired daytime repeats, as Major Adams, Trailmasterand Trailmaster [post-1961 Ward Bond episodes] from January 1963 through September 1965). The show debuted at #15 in the Nielsen ratings, rose to #2 in the next three seasons, and peaked at #1 in the 1961–1962 television season. After moving to ABC in the autumn of 1962, the ratings began to decline, and Wagon Train did not again make the Top 20 listing.

The series initially stars veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.

I absolutely loved this show & would stand watching it as I changed out of my school clothes into my street clothes to immediately go outside & skateboard, roller-skate or play chineese jump rope or some outdoors thing...I was a extremely active kid being born in a beach city there was tons of fun things to do.

Can I bring my ironing to your house Quinn?......Actually,( once I get started) ironing is relaxing. .....My thing is hanging clothes on the line to dry...I love it when the sun is out & there is a nice cool breeze......

Permalink Reply by P.A. on April 15, 2011 at 5:34am

Do those things still come on?

Permalink Reply by caseyjo on April 15, 2011 at 10:52am

Yup PA, but unfortunately for Olivias exercising sessions they seem to be on the outs....:( Hope there is something great on the horizon for your exercising pleasure Olivia.....Jeez...I feel really lazy when I think of how you stay in shape....I should go by your example..I just don't find it interesting. There must be some way to make it more fun......

Permalink Reply by Jaylee53 on April 15, 2011 at 4:36pm

I was a big fan of AMC and OLTL.... I was a stay @ home Mom for 18ys. During nap time....that was my time. I never clicked w/talk shows too much. I liked the acting/storyline of the soaps. *Don't kick me off the island...yet*

My grandmother "Nanny Layton", was a huge fan of "Edge of Night"..the world stopped so she could watch "her stories".

I started watching soaps in HS...come home...General Hospital.

Permalink Reply by caseyjo on April 15, 2011 at 4:45pm

I watched General hospital also..Those 3 came on back to back.....I was also a stay at home mom...Was edge of night the oldest one? Maybe the first one? I know it was around for a eternity.

Permalink Reply by Stir Young on April 15, 2011 at 5:09pm

I don't know anything about the soaps....the very few times I ever watched one I had no idea what what going on, and in fact I was quickly motivated to get off my butt and do something more constructive.

It seemed to me that they spoke in a very dramatic fashion on the soaps. I sure didn't know anyone that talked like in RL, but thought perhaps thats how people communicated in California.

That was before I learned that Californians actually spoke Valleyspeak.

Oh Em Gee!

Permalink Reply by caseyjo on April 15, 2011 at 5:36pm

Hee hee..rolling on floor..I'm a Ca. girl..moved to the valley & had my daughter valley girl, but I'm a beach kid...Dont ya know its like rival gangs..the beach kids vs valley kids..It's not cool to be Valley dont ya know..:)

Permalink Reply by Stir Young on April 15, 2011 at 6:42pm

HaHaHa! Thanks for the tutorial, CJ.....heck, what did I know, I'm a Michigan kid!

All soap & no suds.

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