Christmas 1949

Well, this is finally 1976

Just another New Year's Eve... 1975


































Yay it's 1980!

















Looks like the Tar Heels had at least one successful New Year's Eve bowl game in the 80's.

Time to drink a toast and watch the watch change years.

Lucky St. Nicks of the 80's

A Village People Halloween

From Bev's album.

It's Raining, It's Pouring

Before there was Facebook

college students kept track of each other in more primitive ways.

Remembering WTC

Nobody really cared much for them, but they were always up there, showing up in pictures you were trying to take of something else.

Tesser Well

Madeleine L'Engle 1918-2007

Home Run King

Omigosh there he is, Hank Aaron in 1974!

Chief Knock-a-Homa

The Braves of the Seventies...terrible team but beloved by all in the southeast because we could watch every single game each season on Ted Turner's channel, even before there was cable. Uncle Jim took us to a game every summer in Atlanta. We rode from Clarkston to Fulton County Stadium in the bed of a pickup truck, screaming under bridges and lucky we didn't fly out onto the interstate. Without Hammerin' Hank the team was even worse, but no less beloved. Here it's "Ladies' Night" at the Braves game, August 28, 1978. Famous knuckleballer Phil Neikro and I pose for the Polaroid:

Now Phil is waiting for some more Ladies.

Most of the Ladies are old enough to be Bob Horner's mom:Dale Murphy enjoys the Ladies:

Glenn Hubbard (?) does not appear to enjoy the Ladies:

So it goes.

I can't find any of my Vonnegut paperbacks, or the Ziggy cartoon I had on the wall forever. I think it was Ziggy. Ziggy was saying to somebody, something like, "I've met Freudians, Jungians, and Darwinians, but you're my first Vonnegutian." Cheers to you, Kurt Vonnegut, may you rest in peace you old *. http://archive.salon.com/audio/fiction/2001/02/20/vonnegut/index

Cult of Personality Bottle Openers

Fagin and Pope helped many people in the 20th century enjoy a bottle of soda or beer.

Shopping in the 80's

In the process of clearing out my mom's stepmother's house, we have found many purchases from the 20th century still in their original bags. Inside this Record Bar bag...

was this popular LP from 1987:

Inside the Belk's bag...

...was a Smurf.

January 8 is Elvis's Birthday

When I took these pictures of Tiny Graceland, it had fallen into some disrepair. This was a doll's house size scale model in someone's yard near downtown Roanoke, VA.