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  1. I have the first 80 Bantam reprints, need to dig them out and read them again. Wonderful stuff. Don't know if kids today would be able to understand the technology like Autogiros and the like.

    When I tried to donate mine to the high school where I worked i was told that they were inappropriate for children under 21 years old.

  2. In no particular order:

    Melin Olsen

    Gorgeous George

    The invincible Bat

    Gentleman John

    Roman Gabriel

    Jim Turner

    Gov. Calvin Rampton

    Dr. Terrel "Ted" Bell

    Shirley Maclain

    Tom Selleck

    Dr. Wilber S. "Bill" Thain

    Kareem Abdul "Trinidad Slim" Jabar

    Gen. Curtis LeMay

    John Russell

    James Garner

    Edmund O'Brien

    William Bendix

    Rodd Redwing

    Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

    Chill Wills

    Gary Burghoff

    Lisa Whelchel

    Johnny Cash

    Dan Haggerty

    Dub Taylor

    Buck Taylor

    Jack Elam

    Sammy Davis, Jr.

    David O. McKay

    Alma Sonne

    Melvin J. Ballard

    M. Russell Ballard

    Donny and Marie Osmond

    Paul Cardon

    Keith Kelson

    Rocky Marciano

    Bob Munden

    Thell Reed, Jr.

    Bill Jordan

    Parker "P. O." Ackley

    Louis C. Hickman

    Quentin L. Cook

    David Janssen

    Paul Newman

    Art Williams

    Glenn Williams

    Harland Sanders

    John Addison

    George "Gabby" Hayes

    Arthur Hunnicutt

    Paul Paddila

     

    ... and many many more

  3. I recall milk being delivered by wagon with a team of horses. The horses knew the route and would not need

    human attention until they returned to the dairy. Gosh I must be getting old.

     

    We could not pet the horses, but we would stand around and talk to them. I think they also thought we

    were a bunch of friends. Better times for sure. And then there was the ice man.....

    Old Man Yeats delivered ice behind a pair of draft horses. We had a galvanized steel ice box with a chute beside the coal chute (Also a Yeats-owned company, using a Mack chain drive truck). Our box held two 200 pound blocks of ice broken into four chunks each.

     

    Dad changed the straw insulation about once a month and I got to help... until I got smarter.

  4. They still do make home milk and dairy deliveries in our areas in those old (now refurbished) milk delivery trucks.

     

    Schwan's is the company name. They deliver not only dairy but other frozen meats and foods.

    Thoe old Divco vans are a valuable collectible nowadays. And the Helms "coaches", too.

  5. Usually they'd check you if the milk was still there when they came for the next delivery. In our little town they'd look in all the windows, then talk to the neighbors, finally call the cops.

     

    The mailman would do the same thing, and maybe the kid that delivered the paper.

     

    Lot more "community concern" than with the so-called "community organizers" today.

  6. We were warned in 1951.

     

    We did not heed the warning.

     

    If we go beyond a certain boundary they will return..... and we may not survive the consequences.

     

    BEWARE!

     

    BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

  7. Doc Savage was written for early teen-age boys in the thirties and forties.

     

    181 volumes. The first I read, in 1962, was Shadow of The Wolf and I eventually owned all 181 stories.

     

    They still crop up now and again but the last I saw were two stories to the book and were NOT in order.

  8. You'll be surprised how quickly you adapt to being retired. I found that I have things I've wanted to do but never had time for.... so many that I still don't have time for all of them.

     

    Come see me in Arizona. I'll make a believer out of you.

  9. Two guys sitting in a bar last night, watching the championship game.

    #1 says, "I do not understand why 'bama does not have 51 percent of the points. They deserve the national championship!"

    #2 says, "The final score decides whether the Tide or the Tigers is the best team."

    And then the fight started...

     

    (There was an article in USA Today website today telling how Clemson would not be in the championship game but never mentioned that they won the game last night.)

    Old age? Hell,son, I was only 26 at the time.

  10. BF 108 Taifun (Typhoon) was originally a 2 seat civilia aircraft and late a four seater.

     

    Buil6 in the '30 to get around restrictions agains building military aircraft, it eventually turned into a courier airplane and was also used as a trainer.

  11. When I was still a 1st Lieutenant I was in an Officers Club in Ton Son Nhut. (Spelling?). Another 1st Lieutenant was at the bar bragging about being a West Point graduate and loudly declaring that "mustangers" and ROTC grads were NOT real officers. I listened to that for awhile then told the table that it was my turn to get the drinks.

    i walked up to the bar right next to this guy and ordered the drinks, then while I was waiting I turned to him and asked if he was a West Pointer. He turned to the others with him and said "See? It shows". I said "No, it doesn't. I just noticed your class ring while you were picking your nose".

     

    He made the mistake of spinning his bar stool as he turned to swing. He was unconscious before he fell.

     

    Wasn't even a real fight.

     

    Guess West point didn't teach him all he needed to know.

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