Word: trailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Completing a cross-country drive from San Francisco. Roe pulled into Trowbridge St. in the early hours of September 3 and parked his Volkswagen Rabbit and U-Haul trailer. When he looked at the parking space three hours later, both Rabbit and U-Haul were gone...
...story soon took a turn for the better. Following a Channel 7 evening news item the day after, the theft, a viewer, whose anonymity Roe is protecting. telephoned the police and reported seeing an abandoned trailer that matched Roe's description in a Medford field. By 9 p.m., Roe had arrived at the site and confirmed the viewer's suspicion...
Moviegoers expect to be subjected to B-grade light shows, requests for charitable contributions or even car ads while waiting for the feature to begin. But in the Los Angeles area these past few months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife...
...some 1,000 people have responded to the trailer. Most (but not all) were women who dialed Halberstadt's home telephone number; it flashes 19 times during the trailer. However, his cinematic mating calls have gone the way his preliminary interview for the Johnny Carson show went. "They rejected me," Halberstadt glumly reports. "It's nothing...
...Colony first heard the news on radio or TV. In Battlement Mesa, a half-finished company town built by Exxon, a few furious workers immediately went on a rampage. They overturned garbage cans, tore down company-owned fence and fired shotguns through the windows of their company-owned trailer homes. In the town of Parachute, 15 miles from the Colony site, men piled into O'Leary's Pub and the Old Bank Saloon, where they drank, pounded on the tables and broke into fistfights. Others, gathered in small knots outside on the streets, simply shook their heads...