Union Pacific Streamliners From The Late 1950s This caught my attention because I vividly remember the print ad that resulted from this promotional TV spot. We didn’t take National Geographic, so I must have seen the ad at my barber shop when I was a kid. My dad would usually drop me off, and I would […]
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Driving L.A. In My Youth I turned 16 on a Sunday in 1959, so the first thing I did after school on Monday was get my driver’s license. I didn’t have a car of my own for a while, so I would borrow my dad’s 1955 Ford station wagon when it was available. What a
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I Can’t Believe We Made It How things have changed since my childhood. I did almost all of these while growing up in California’s San Fernando Valley and am still here today. What a wonderful era it was. If only we realized it at the time. RECENT POSTS TAGS
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Annual Straw Art Festival in Niigata City, Japan Since 2008, students at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo have traveled to Kamizeki Lagoon Park in Niigata City, Japan, to erect huge sculptures made from straw. Every year, the students build large wooden frames that serve as the base for the woven straw artworks you see
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Reflections Of A Baby Boomer Author Unknown I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rainI’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name I’ve gone to Kansas City, and I sang in the sunshineI’ve been on the road again, with Georgia on my mind Like a rolling stone, I’ve given peace a chanceI put
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