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What Time is It?

January 7, 2021 By Jim Brewer

What Time is It?

Hey kids! What time is it? Breathes there a Boomer who doesn’t know the answer to that question? If it was Buffalo Bob Smith asking, and it was a weekday afternoon on NBC in the 1950’s, it was most definitely “Howdy Doody time.” Boomers remember the Howdy Doody Show as much for the quality of life during those years as for the quality of this popular children’s program. It was a time of … [Read more...]

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A Thermos of Coffee

December 31, 2020 By Jim Brewer

A Thermos of Coffee

I gave Daddy a thermos one year for Christmas. It was a heavy duty thermos, like you’d see in a construction worker’s lunchbox. It was one of Daddy’s favorite gifts ever. That thermos, even today, brings back lots of great memories because it went with us on most of our hunting trips throughout the years. A typical hunt during the Christmas vacation found us leaving the house early in the … [Read more...]

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Making Molasses Cookies

December 22, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Making Molasses Cookies

Every Christmas, my Aunt Lena made molasses cookies. When I was at Carolina, she would send me a tin of her homemade sugar cookies along with some molasses cookies. I kept them hidden from my suite mates so I could have them all to myself. Molasses cookies originated among the members of the Moravian Church. The Moravians are among the oldest Protestant denominations dating back to 15th century. … [Read more...]

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Toys to Remember

December 17, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Toys to Remember

Toys have certainly changed since I was a boy. Everything is electronic today – and expensive. I was thinking back about Christmas toys I have received over the years and one of the first I can remember was a Slinky. Slinkies were wire coils that – if you started them off just right – would work their way down a flight of stairs. I expect I sent my Slinky down Mama Ida’s stairs a thousand times … [Read more...]

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

December 10, 2020 By Jim Brewer

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

They play Christmas music all day, every day on Z 95.1, and that’s the station I tune in. One song that plays often throughout the day is "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” The song was written in 1951 by Meredith Wilson and was recorded by many artists including Perry Como, The Fontane Sisters, Bing Crosby and more recently, Michael Bublé. The first stanza goes like … [Read more...]

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The Price of Television

December 3, 2020 By Jim Brewer

The Price of Television

I was in Sam’s this week and walked by the electronics displays. They had a 40-inch flat screen TV for $159, a Smart TV at that. Boy have times changed. Thinking back, I remember the first TV my family bought. It was in 1954 and folks were just starting to get TVs in their homes. Finally, the day came. The furniture store delivered a 24-inch Sylvania table-top TV, black and white of course. As … [Read more...]

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November 11th: A Special Day

November 26, 2020 By Jim Brewer

November 11th: A Special Day

November 11th, Veterans’ Day,  has come and gone, but there was a time when November 11th was my favorite day of the year. More so than Christmas, more than Thanksgiving, even more than my birthday was November 11th - Veteran’s Day. Veteran’s Day was always a special day for me because my father, James E. Brewer, was a veteran who lost his life in WW II. My step-dad, Daddy George, was also a … [Read more...]

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Uncle Dennis

November 19, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Uncle Dennis

I was blessed to come from large families. My mother’s mother, Mama Ida, had a total of five brothers and sisters and she married into a family of six siblings. My father, James Brewer, was the youngest of 10 children, so I had my share of aunts and uncles. If not my favorite uncle, Uncle Dennis Brewer was certainly right up there near the top and he was easily the most interesting. Uncle … [Read more...]

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Check Mate

November 5, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Check Mate

There is a program streaming now on Netflix – Queen’s Gambit.  It is a fictional account of a young orphaned girl who becomes a brilliant chess player. If you have Netflix, it’s a must-watch series. If you don’t have Netflix, it’s a good reason to sign up. Nancy and I watched each episode, spell bound, sometimes 3 episodes in a single evening. It reminded me of the chess mania that swept this … [Read more...]

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Hail, Hail Rock & Roll

October 29, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Rock & Roll belongs to Boomers. Later generations have tried to claim a slice of the Rock & Roll pie with groups like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Springsteen and others, but they were only Great Pretenders - not Johnny Be Goode’s, but Johnny Come Lately’s. Boomers know that true Rock & Roll was a product of the 1950’s. Following WWII, music was all over the place - Big Band, Swing, … [Read more...]

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