Gee, our old La Salle ran great!
Or: Now & Then
The Doryman of Prescott, Wisconsin: “Like many of my contemporaries, I have more past than future.
“That past seemed better in most ways, if for nothing more than comfort.
Month: January 2020
How the rookie copy boy learned his lesson: ‘The newspaper is not a toy!’
Live and learn!
Zoo Lou of St. Paul reports: “Subject: ‘The newspaper is not a toy!’
“Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. I remember putting out these one-page papers (Opie did the same thing in an episode of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’) that dished the dirt and spread rumors like a Hedda Hopper or the National Enquirer.
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Seven decades later, the memory is as fresh as the cement they stumbled across!
The Permanent Sisterly Record
The Gram With a Thousand Rules: “Subject: A Tale of Two Sisters.
“My sister Ruth kept a daily diary from her teenaged years until she suffered a stroke in her late 80s. When she experienced a damaging flood in 1981, Ruth dried out the waterlogged books and salvaged as much as she could. Some of the passages were unreadable, but the bulk of them survived. She told her daughter that they ‘weren’t a secret’ and she hoped she would read them someday.
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Riddle us this, Charlie Brown: Name one wagon that was easier to own than the 1961 Ford Falcon!
Gee, our old La Salle ran great
Leading to: Please release me! (responsorial)
The REF in White Bear Lake: “Subject: Gee, our old La Salle Ford Falcon ran great.
“Seeing the post from John in Highland about Fizbee touting Clark Super 100 brought two things to mind: that The REF in White Bear Lake is from Highland, too (but that’s neither here nor there for this discussion), and that I have the program from the Rose Bowl of January 2, 1961. (January 1 fell on a Sunday, so the game shifted.)
Bulletin Board 