Submitted by Lynne T

These were originally homemade in either spiral bound notebooks or composition books and contained one question per page. Most of the time the questions were harmless (name, dob, favorite movie, etc.) but every now and then you’d get some jucier gossip.

Submitted by Katie T

We here at Once Upon A Win would like to recognize the unfortunate and untimely death of one of the world’s most influential musicians, expressing our heartfelt condolences to his children and family. As a performance artist and musician, Michael was second to none and will be greatly missed by everyone here at Once Upon A Win. We all grew up trying to imitate the King of Pop’s signature dances and mimicking his mannerisms, but no matter how good we got there was nothing quite like watching the master in action.

Here are a few of our favorite nostalgic moments. Rest in peace Michael.

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Pet Sematary (sometimes referred to as Stephen King’s Pet Sematary) is a 1989 horror film adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by Mary Lambert, the film stars Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. A man, Andrew Hubatsek, was chosen for Zelda’s role. Stephen King wrote the screenplay himself, having become frustrated with how his novels were represented in film adaptations, and appears briefly in the film as a minister at a funeral.

Submitted by Lindsay Y

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Walt Disney produced an animated version of the work in 1946, with Sterling Holloway providing the voice of the narrator. It was released theatrically as a segment in Make Mine Music, then re-issued the following year accompanying a re-issue of Fantasia (as a short subject before the film), then separately on home video in the 1990s.[1] This version makes several changes to the original story, for example:

* During the character introduction, the pets are given names: “Sasha” the bird, “Sonia” the duck, and “Ivan” the cat.
* As the cartoon begins, Peter and his friends already know there is a wolf nearby, and are preparing to catch him.
* The hunters get names at a later point in the story: “Misha”, “Yasha” and “Vladimir”.
* Peter day-dreams of hunting and catching the wolf and exits the garden carrying a wooden “pop-gun” rifle with the purpose of hunting the wolf down.
* At the end, in a complete reversal of the original (and to make the story more child-friendly), it turns out that the duck has not been eaten by the wolf. (The wolf is shown chasing the duck, who hides in a tree’s trunk. The wolf attacks out of view, and returns in view with some of the duck’s feathers in his mouth and licking his jaws. Peter, the cat, and the bird assume the duck has been eaten. After the wolf has been caught, the bird is shown mourning the duck. The duck comes out of the tree trunk at that point and they are happily reunited).

Submitted by Alain C

This childrens book was first published in 1997. It’s about a llama who wants to know if he is the only animal with a llama for a mama, so he goes around asking different animals if their mamas are llamas. This was one of my favorite books when I was younger. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve read this book

Submitted by Tony H

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Tales of the Gold Monkey is a 1982 television show broadcast by ABC. Most critics saw it as the network’s attempt to capitalize on the fame of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark the previous year, in the same vein as Bring ‘Em Back Alive on CBS. In actuality, the premise of the show bears a much stronger resemblance to the 1939 film Only Angels Have Wings. Creator Donald P. Bellisario tried to get the series commissioned since the late 1970s, but executives felt that audiences wouldn’t be interested in an adventure series set in the 1930s. It was the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark that changed their minds. The series featured the romance of early aviation, exotic locales and cliff-hanging action.

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The original ABA was founded in 1967, competing with the well-established National Basketball Association, until the ABA-NBA merger in 1976. According to The NBA Encyclopedia, its long-term goal was to force a merger with the more established league. ABA officials told potential owners that they could get an ABA team for half of what it cost to get an NBA expansion team at the time. When the merger occurred, ABA officials said, their investment would more than double.

Ultimately, four ABA teams were absorbed into the older league: the New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs. Two other clubs, the Kentucky Colonels and the Spirits of St. Louis were disbanded upon the merger. A third, the Virginia Squires, had folded less than a month earlier, missing out on the opportunities that a merger might have provided.

The ABA distinguished itself from its older counterpart with a more wide-open, flashy style of offensive play, as well as differences in rules (a 30-second shot clock – as opposed to the NBA’s 24-second clock. The ABA did switch to the 24 second shot clock for the 1975-76 season – and use of a three-point field goal arc). Also, the ABA used a colorful red, white and blue ball, instead of the NBA’s traditional orange ball. The ABA also had several “regional” franchises, such as the Virginia Squires and Carolina Cougars, that played “home” games in several cities.

The freewheeling style of the ABA eventually caught on with fans, but the lack of a national television contract and protracted financial losses would spell doom for the ABA as an independent circuit. In 1976, its last year of existence, the ABA pioneered the now-popular slam dunk contest at its all-star game in Denver.

One of the more significant long-term contributions of the ABA to professional basketball was to tap into markets in the southeast that had been collegiate basketball hotbeds (including North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky). The NBA was focused on the urban areas of the Northeast, Midwest and West Coast. At the time, it showed no interest in placing a team south of Washington, D.C.

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Def Leppard are an English rock band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top-selling rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldwide,[3] including over 35 million in the United States alone. Def Leppard are ranked #31 on VH1’s “Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”.[4]

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Boyz II Men is a Grammy Award-winning African-American Rhythm&Blues/soul singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Initiated during 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with members Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown Records during the early 1990s. Nelson left the group before their first recording to pursue a solo career.

Based on sales, Boyz II Men is the most successful R&B male vocal group of all time. They recorded five #1 R&B successes between 1992 and 1997 and have sold more than 60 million albums.[1] Three of its #1 hits, “End of the Road”, “I’ll Make Love to You”, and “One Sweet Day” (with Mariah Carey), set and exceeded records for the longest period of time a single remained scored at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; “One Sweet Day” still holds the record. Although “On Bended Knee” did not exceed any records, it was still a very popular song that reached #1 and made Boyz II Men the second artist (behind The Beatles) to replace themselves at the number one rating of the Billboard Hot 100.