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JMFabiano

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« on: February 12, 2005, 09:31:19 PM »
http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.p...=0&#entry355235

The first Golden Road was $90,000????  There WAS a double DSW?  I had to run this by you to see if this was true or false.
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zachhoran

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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2005, 09:44:50 PM »
[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Feb 12 2005, 09:31 PM\']http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.p...=0&#entry355235

The first Golden Road was $90,000????  There WAS a double DSW?  I had to run this by you to see if this was true or false.
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We didn't see a $90K Golden Road until 2001 or 2002 IIRC. There has NEVER been a double DSW, and Bob jokes that the show would go bankrupt, and they'd all go their separate ways if a double DSW ever happened.
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2005, 10:08:43 PM »
[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Feb 12 2005, 08:31 PM\']http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.p...=0&#entry355235

The first Golden Road was $90,000????  There WAS a double DSW?  I had to run this by you to see if this was true or false.
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He also says that the first "Road to Gold" (which is the first sign these people have no idea what he's talking about) was only a few years ago. I know Golden Road premeired in 1975. And there has never been a Double DSW.
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Robert Hutchinson

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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2005, 10:36:32 PM »
People talking out of their asses on an Internet message board?

What a CURIOUS phenomenon.
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Steve Gavazzi

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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2005, 12:11:32 AM »
Um...wow.

Even for people who aren't obsessed with game shows, that is sad.
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That Don Guy

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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2005, 01:54:17 AM »
The first Golden Roads weren't even $20,000 - I seem to recall that Bob always said back then, "At the end of the Golden Road, we always have a prize worth at least Ten Thousand Dollars in price!" (back in the days of $3000 cars).  Even a Rolls-Royce wouldn't have been worth $90,000 back then.

As for double DSWs, I'm fairly certain there has never been a tie on the daytime version (I remember one in the old Dennis James syndicated version, but that's it).

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zachhoran

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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2005, 07:48:23 AM »
[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 01:54 AM\']The first Golden Roads weren't even $20,000 - I seem to recall that Bob always said back then, "At the end of the Golden Road, we always have a prize worth at least Ten Thousand Dollars in price!" (back in the days of $3000 cars).  Even a Rolls-Royce wouldn't have been worth $90,000 back then.

As for double DSWs, I'm fairly certain there has never been a tie on the daytime version (I remember one in the old Dennis James syndicated version, but that's it).

-- Don
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The showcase tie that happened on the James version was in the first season, which predated the DSW rule, even if the players were both less than $100 away. Did the 70s syndicated TPIRs ever have the Double SHowcase rule? The 1985-86 version didn't as I recall(Kennedy never mentioned it), but then no one was ever within DSW range bid-wise on that version.
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catnap1972

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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2005, 10:30:21 AM »
The first time Golden Road was played was on the premiere of the hour-long shows, correct?  If so, the first car was a Lincoln Continental ($10K+)...nowhere near "$90,000" quoted.
« Last Edit: February 13, 2005, 10:30:52 AM by catnap1972 »
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aaron sica

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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2005, 12:13:07 PM »
[quote name=\'catnap1972\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 10:30 AM\']The first time Golden Road was played was on the premiere of the hour-long shows, correct?  If so, the first car was a Lincoln Continental ($10K+)...nowhere near "$90,000" quoted.
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That episode is memorable to me, not for the boat won in Golden Road (oops, Lincoln Continental!), but for the other prize offered somewhere on the show - a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2005, 04:22:48 PM »
[quote name=\'passwordplus\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 04:16 PM\']Go figure, it's powered by INVISION(thank God we left them!)
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Go figure, we're ON Invision right now.

Look at the very bottom line of text when you view the board.
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2005, 04:53:05 PM »
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 10:13 AM\']a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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Wow. 8-track, or cassette?
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aaron sica

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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2005, 05:15:14 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 04:53 PM\'][quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 10:13 AM\']a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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Wow. 8-track, or cassette?
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I *think* it was cassettes. Unfortunately, I don't have the episode to confirm. :)
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Steve Gavazzi

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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2005, 06:36:47 PM »
Would somebody please explain to me why I thought I might accomplish something by posting in that thread?

Flamed by Jeremy Soria...Gawd...
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zachhoran

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« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2005, 06:50:02 PM »
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 12:13 PM\']

That episode is memorable to me, not for the boat won in Golden Road (oops, Lincoln Continental!), but for the other prize offered somewhere on the show - a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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70s LMAD offered the fridge prize once or twice.
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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2005, 07:10:05 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 07:36 PM\']Would somebody please explain to me why I thought I might accomplish something by posting in that thread?[/quote]

Flamed by Jeremy Soria...Gawd, indeed.

Next time you folks complain about the way WE do things, just remember THAT operation.

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