I recollect what Tom Masa said about Jack's starting out in the old Haley's Grocery on Leighton Boulevard. But it was Jack O'Riley who bought out the business and ran it. Jack worked at Haley's for ma + 373 more characters

How about Powderville? The old folks homesteaded out in that country in the 19-teens. Back in the '50's when we would visit, the old school was still there, with a library full of books. Some of the o + 415 more characters

Don I went through grade school at Sacred Heart with Mike Biedrzycki. As I remember, Mike used to talk about an older brother who Mike said was a DJ, working in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I think that is t + 1128 more characters

I missed the "exotic dancer" (prime or past prime) in the Gaslight or Kelly's, Wayne. The only thing I remember was Boyle and Christopherson(?) used to put out a lot of good music and Round Earl would + 11 more characters

Ken I missed this when you first posted it and it looks like you may have found the answer to your question. I just wanted to submit that when I was growing up, there was a couple living next door on + 604 more characters

Thanks for the reply. It's a good story anyway.

Does this helicopter story have a credible source or is it another BHS wives tale? Im not saying it didn't happen, I just had never heard that one and frankly it just sounds a little fishy.

Amorette's column about the rainy 1962 BHS was an interesting read. I don't remember that one in particular because I sat in the rain at too many sales during the '60s and '70s. url One thing in this + 884 more characters

Watch the WWII film that is running on the History Channel right now and then ask yourself why our "Commander in Chief" is bowing to that Jap bastard. They will never deserve that kind of respect; the + 276 more characters

Here in Elko, the Mayor owns Arby's, a Burger King, a Tastee-Freez and part of a Basque dinner house. That's why Elko will never see Applebee's, Chili's or an Olive Garden, etc, even though the market + 850 more characters

Brian replies: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Am not! blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Same old s**t.

As far as mudslinging, I've hardly reached the level of most of the folks here. Why are you picking on me? I didn't say you were a mudslinger. I asked you how you would fair with mudslingers looking u + 448 more characters

At ease, "Buck". He's a two-bit socialist with a fifty-cent name for it.

Show trials! What a laugh. No cameras in Military Courts. There will be plenty of cameras on these guys now, so you can all weep big salty tears over how that dirty rotten bastard, Dick Cheney poured + 226 more characters

So, when Eric Holder blows the convictions of these proxy "citizens" on technicalities and they walk out the door of the Federal Court House, will we have to let them on airplanes at JFK? Just wonderi + 8 more characters

I don't understand the point of the video. The point of the video was that if you don't have the "right" opinion you will be punished for it. (See Palin, Sarah) I haven't seen any string of threads ca + 474 more characters

Brian posted: "My great-granddaddy gunned down Lincoln wrote:" You came up with this because the poster goes by the name, C. Wilkes? Is that some lame attempt at humor using death as the butt of a jok + 379 more characters

My art appreciation has limits as well. I never understood the fascination with Warhol. I think the guy who throws paint at the canvas comes up with better stuff. I read somewhere once that people wou + 184 more characters

I don't recall saying that I was being anything other than pejorative, Leif. I also don't recall saying that people other than teabaggers couldn't also be pejorative. Read what I wrote. So then Brian, + 241 more characters

Bob, you forget that Jimbo knows what Howdy meant better than Howdy ever could. He has that power, you know? Hah! That's funny coming from the the most expert interpreter of motive that has ever stalk + 243 more characters