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Remember When

Robo has given me an Idea for a post. (Go Figure I can’t think up much on my own) Where were you when it happened/Heard about it. Since I know most of the ages of our community I will start at 1960 (For you 2or3 older folks) The Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22 1963 (JFK […]

Imagine

Imagine the music

The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

I know that a lot of our community was very young when this happened and it is a long way from our little world here but it is something that is dear to my heart. 35 Years ago today the Pride of the American Shipping fleet went down in Lake Superior 35 miles from Whitefish […]

Mall Stories?

Jek gave me a idea from a comment. I know a lot of our community is from the Oklahoma area,( sorry Seattleites) so Anybody got any good stories related to any of our malls? That will be going away soon, or even those that will survive the e-commerce revolution. (Penn Square, Quail Springs, Sooner Fashion(Norman),Heritage […]

Friday the 13th!…..

Today’s THAT day to run and hide, get out those good luck charms – STAY AT HOME…… Yeah, Friday the 13th does have a lot of history behind it, mostly based on religious events of evil and deviltry, hence the supposed Bad Luck associated with it…… Since my Luck usually runs backwards, I’ve had a […]

It was 46 years ago Today…..

…..That the band who would become “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” set foot on American soil for the first time….. February 7, 1964, The Beatles started their first American tour, which, changed American pop music forever…… John, Paul, George, and Ringo – the Moptops who became the guru’s of music in my generation, and, […]

It was 40 years ago today…..

Young Neil took a small step to play…… On Earth’s moon so far away….. Back again in 2020, so they say….. I hope I’ll be around that day…… I can say that I got to see the whole thing unfold on a ungainly big box of a TV with a small screen (Television had only […]