re: Pictures from days gone by....

I thought this was different, so I investigated. Turns out that all issues of The Hotspur are online. I would say written at about the level of The Hardy Boys or a high school senior in Baton Rouge.

The description - The Hotspur was a British boys' paper published by D. C. Thomson & Co. From 1933 to 1959, it was a boys' story paper; it was relaunched as a comic in October 1959, initially called the New Hotspur, and ceased publication in January 1981. Featuring illustrated stories of adventure, sports, schooldays, crime, s.f. plus jokes. They bear no relation to the American pulps. They are in a class of their own being anthology story papers which appeared, for the most part, weekly and were aimed at kids and teenagers

I was surprised to find that this episode takes place in Baton Rouge. However, there is absolutely no local color. It closes with, "Don't miss next weeks smashing yarn, Lads! Johnny tracks down The Voice sindle handed."

Actress Coleen Gray, best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). Guest starred on dozens of TV shows and 86 episodes of Days of Our Lives.

There is a Sears house that looks just like that plan in Auburn.

Damn they have 13 girls in a row then finally get a boy and name him Leslie?

The Pennsylvania Railroad S-1 Locomotive was a massive machine :

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Baby, baby, that's the way it goes Nothing happens when you Mash Potatoes I just gotta fall in love with you Watusi is the dance to do

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The Watusi by the Vibrations

I hope it is ok to share a couple of pictures from my collection.


31st Battery, Canadian Forces Artillery, World War I


My grandfather, a member of the above unit for a very short time.

His story
Born/raised in England. Comes to visit an older brother who had immigrated to the US. War breaks out, but since the US isn't getting involved, makes his way to Canada to join and go fight. Diagnosed with a hernia he won't let them operate on, he washes out.

Makes his way back to England on his own and tried to join up there, medically disqualified. While in England, goes to his sister's wedding. Meeting a young lady there, falls in love and they marry. He convinces her to move to Canada (he wanted to come back to the US but she didn't think Americans would accept her), but leaves on his own to go find a home and a job.

Six months later, he cables her to come meet him. She crosses the Atlantic on her own. They live in Canada a while, have two children and he convinces her to move to the US, they do, and have two more children. He dies of cancer in '63, he was 71. She lives until 1986, dying at 94.

Vivian Vaverick drives a mean Maverick (Model year ‘72-ish)

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I can't recall ever seeing a Falstaff TV commercial, and I go back to Miller Lite spots w/jocks ads that began in the late '70s.

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Falstsff sponsored the baseball game of the week with Pee Wee Reese abd Dizzy Dean doing the broadcast. That was back in the early 60s.

Falstaff, the choicest product of the brewer’s art. It was big back in the day.