re: Pictures from days gone by....

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The incident occurred on March 19, 1942, in Brooklyn, when Egbert, a 50-year-old woman, had an emotional breakdown and climbed onto the ledge of her second-story apartment building at 497 Dean Street.

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As she stood on the narrow ledge, gripping a drainpipe, police officers and neighbors attempted to talk her down.

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Suit yourself you uppity dyke bitch

Damn, does that bring back memories.

An uncle (who was only 7 years older than me) had ALL of those paperbacks in his room in the mid 1970s, and I liked to look at the covers and synopses when I visited my grandparents. He was in high school and then college around that time, and was a voracious reader. I once realized that his favorite book series all rhymed: Conan, Perry Rhodan (sci-fi), and Mack Bolan.

My uncle later became a high school teacher and coach, and then later an administrator in the Plaquemines Parish school system. Unfortunately, he died very young, right after Katrina before he turned 50.

One thing I remember about those books was almost all of them included a place name: Vegas Vendetta, Detroit Deathwatch, Colorado Kill Zone, Boston Blitz, etc. The one book I actually read was the one for Atlanta, which came out around the time of the CB- Smokey and the Bandit craze entitled "Dixie Convoy".

Pretty sure Marvel Comics' "The Punisher" was a complete rip-off of "The Executioner".

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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" –Ernest Hemingway

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At least it ended with a bang!

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Irish McCalla, 1950s Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
The woman has a neck

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She has notably more than that.