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scary thought -- 5-year-old walked home from school

Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 2 months ago to Culture
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oh, how this world has changed in my 66 years. -- j
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago
    When I grew up there it was truly a vibrant fun place to live. Then, Coleman Young, the first black mayor was elected. He told all the people who didn't like the way he ran the city to "Hit 8 Mile Road." (City limit). They did.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    argh. . sad what's happened up there. . it was such
    a bustling, successful city when I was up there in
    the seventies. . my first wife is kin to a woman
    whose husband was a detroit policeman. . what a
    city tour he gave us, back then!!! -- j
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Detroit:
    They tore my high school down. Grand plans to build on the same spot, -- unrealized to date.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we can hole up here with all the comforts, yet the
    outside influences (I retired from a prime-govt-contract
    manhattan project site) keep doing the bait-and-switch
    thing. . . . . our retiree healthcare has become a fund
    into which DOE (energy) wants to dip for facility
    upgrades. . . we're working on a class-action suit,
    but it's like the Rs attacking the Ds -- they just
    keep on coming.
    I *am* getting to do some stuff which has been on
    the "someday" list for a lifetime -- like, today, I got
    a pristine pair of Shure 55s microphones in the mail.
    these are the "Elvis" mics featured in his films and
    on the Elvis stamp. . while I prefer other artists, the
    mic is an old standard which will add to our 50th
    high school reunion next year. . the "kids" will be
    astonished to see one just like we had in the school
    auditorium back then. . which works! . while they
    dance to genuine sock-hop music from my collection. -- j

    p.s. the mic::: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncledave9...
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Absolutely!
    The latter years have turned out to be the best, stress free of my life and if it is within my power, I intend to keep it that way. Actually, if it wasn't for infirmities I'd say, I've come pretty close to Eden. Now, if it weren't for those pesky politicians screwing things up.....
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  • Posted by marshafamilaroenright 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good stuff! Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed the music. BTW, Roberta Flack has many versions of that song; I only get ASMR from that one.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    K and I are constantly looking up old friends. . we have
    a solid marriage and intend to keep it, but we will not
    live forever. . why not enjoy the present like it is ...
    a present!!! -- j
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A high school friend of mine said she'd be in town and wanted to know If we could meet. I was only too happy. She was in the band and orchestra in high school with me, she played the flute. Unfortunately, she passed away before we could get together, a hazard at my (and her) age. I'm still questioning the weird look on my wife's face when I broke the news.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes; of course! . since his was produced in Kenya.
    it's a standing Gutfeld joke. . red eye, the five,
    wherever -- Kenya-born BHO....... -- j
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  • Posted by 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    they are retired like we are, and I asked if I might
    drop by on the harley some pretty day. . "might be
    uncomfortable" was the reply. . their marriage must
    be different from ours. -- j
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  • Posted by livefree-NH 10 years, 2 months ago
    We moved to Hawaii when I was 5, and in 3rd grade I got kicked off the bus for kicking the bus driver's seat (for 2 weeks, I think it was). My route to and from school was bus, bus, launch, and bus. The launch was a boat that went across Pearl Harbor, before they built the bridge.

    So here was this little 8-year-old, me, already branded a trouble-maker, now walking home from school in Honolulu.

    It worked out OK, and I even stopped being disrespectful to bus drivers, too. Win-win.

    [completely unrelated to this, my sister was born about that time, in Hawaii, and she is almost exactly the same age as Barry. Strangely, the two birth certificates look VERY different from each other.]
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  • Posted by 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I still have an old 3-cell maglite in the headboard.
    favorite flashlight of the pre-LED era! -- j
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I usually dislike bastardized versions of originals. That was a rare exception. As I played it over several times, it really grew on me.
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