My father lived for roadside attractions along the rural byways of America. He loved to take Sunday afternoon drives and he loved to take long trips across the country. Born in 1930, he was a member of the Silent Generation. He grew up during The Great Depression and hated the Interstate Highway system because he […]
Joe
Oh thinkin’ about all our younger years There was only you and me We were young and wild and free —Heaven, Bryan Adams (1983) Here are some memories I thought I’d share on this Memorial Day. This is a picture of Joe, a young Cold War veteran. The picture was taken around 1987. Wasn’t he handsome? […]
Memories of Gibson’s Discount Center
Do you have any special memories of this song — Heartache by Bonnie Tyler? The year it was released, 1977, my family was living in West Texas, and I had just turned 10. The following summer of 1978, my folks were planning another move, so I went to live with my sister for six weeks. […]
1980s Pen Pals Revisited: Helga’s Pictures and Letters from Germany, 1981
Of Scrapbooks and 1980s Pen Pals Here is my old scrapbook from my high school and college days. The days before mounting squares and acid-free paper were easily found. I glued and Scotch-taped cards, letters, pictures, track ribbons, corsage ribbons, and ephemera to the gray, construction paper pages. This is where I’ve kept Helga’s letters […]
Gen Xers Playing On The Freeway and Other Free Range Things Before Free Range Was A Thing
Back in the 1970s and 80s, half of all Gen-Xers grew up in households headed by single moms. They didn’t call us free-range kids back then, but I suppose that’s exactly what we were. Latchkey kids that roamed the boulevards, back roads and byways of America. We dodged all kinds of dangers, both real and […]
Vintage Christmas Kits and the Fascinating Contribution of Bernhard Ulmann
In these frozen and silent nights Sometimes in a dream you appear… Our hearts were singing It felt like Christmastime Two thousand miles Is very far through the snow I’ll think of you Wherever you go –2,000 Miles, The Pretenders Ten years ago, I purchased some vintage Bucilla Christmas decorations at a local estate sale. The felt ornaments […]
Chloe
…Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid Now there ain’t nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did… –Springsteen and Bobby Jean The best evidence I have these days that there is a God and He loves me came from my recent visit […]
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