Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. This is actually a slight reworking (with some added images) of Snapshot 06, originally called “All About the Toys.” I wanted to do a Christmas post, but I think this one sums... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. A childhood friend recently posted a photo on his Facebook page that brought a flood of memories rushing back to me. It was this one, seen also above in the “Snapshot” graphic,... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. They say that when you’re a witness to some kind of tragedy, you remember everything about it: Where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. I was only... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! Let’s take a little trip back in time to early September 1967, 56 years ago. School had just... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! All Playbill™ images are from my original copies. I visited New York City almost every year for 50... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! All Playbill™ images are from my original copies. I visited New York City almost every year for 50... Continue Reading →
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! All Playbill™ images are from my original copies. My brother and I started visiting New York City on... Continue Reading →
I am sometimes more fascinated by the history of chain restaurants in this country than the restaurants themselves. One exception to that is Howard Johnson’s. When I was a kid, the Howard Johnson’s chain was the epitome of high-class dining (maybe because I was a low-class kid). So it was with a certain amount of... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to Part Two of my look at my collection of old postcards, primarily linen ones. For a complete introduction to this two-part series, please visit my previous Snapshot post by clicking here. Here are ten more classic postcard images, along with some info, including the publisher and excerpts from any pithy and amusing... Continue Reading →
I’ve been a collector all my life. The big thing has been, of course, as any regular reader of this blog will know, comic books. When I was a kid, my brother and I searched and searched for something to collect. I tried coins, even buying the blue books that had the slots you could... Continue Reading →
As I’ve grown older, I realize that Christmas is really a time for the young. My fondest memories of the holiday season go back to when I was a kid and the magic that surrounded that time of year. A lot of that magic was inspired by the Sears catalog, which my grandparents got each... Continue Reading →
Maybe it’s my age or maybe it’s retirement, but I have been having very warm, nostalgic feelings about comic books. Or maybe it’s the disconnection I feel from the comics of today. I still go to my local store every Wednesday and pick up at least a few books each time, but I find myself... Continue Reading →
Long ago and far away, in my childhood home of Tamaqua, PA, I was a very small (and young) part of a family business. To be honest, it was just a store that I visited. I never worked for it, I was too young. But when I stop and think back on it from this... Continue Reading →
I can’t begin to count how many movie theaters I’ve been to in my lifetime. There have been spectacular ones, like Radio City Music Hall in New York City and the Odeon Leicester Square in London, and rinky-dink ones, like the little shoebox one (also in NYC) where I saw the Tower Records documentary, All... Continue Reading →
I came across this postcard (above) on eBay of Heisler’s Cloverleaf Dairy Bar, one that focussed on the golf course, and it, of course, brought back a flood of memories. Not enough to warrant the price wanted for the postcard, but a fond flood nonetheless. My father worked for Heisler’s as a milkman when I... Continue Reading →
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