So many things for all you to remember about this wonderful day.  What are your memories?  Please share them. I can almost clearly remember July 4th 1976.  The 200th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence.  The day had been planned and anticipated for several years.  One of the people that was most interested in this … More July 4th

Beer.  What can you not say about that incredibly different drink.  The first beer I really remember was Coors.  It was brewed only in Golden Colorado, right next to where I went to Junior High School. I couldn’t have cared less then.  Although the brewery, which we toured was quite impressive.  Sitting there in the … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 14

There was not such a thing as diet Coke yet. The first evolution of that in my experience was a drink called Tab. It kind of happened along about the same time as cans. The first cans had a seam in them and were pretty heavy affairs. If you decided to crush one against your … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 13

On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at LincolnCenter in New York City . Getting on stage is no small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the … More Itzhak Perlman

But how about screw off bottle tops? What a deal. In the sixties, a soda cold could be had from a nifty device, recently invented, or at least perfected, called a soda pop vending machine. There was one particular one that I really loved. It was bright red with “coke” written on it in different … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 12

Soda’s and Beer came in Glass bottles.  Soda bottles were as small as 6 ounces.  The soda was much different tasting back then.  It used a slightly different formula, less sugar, and made from cane syrup, instead of corn syrup. Then out came the cans.  Cans back then didn’t have a pop top. Nope. They … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 11

We always went prepared for the essentials of course, Where the next party might be. We always dressed up back then. Mom and Dad never went out to eat as a family, except maybe on Sunday after Church. It was such a huge treat. The first restaurants that catered to families were like the Big … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 10

To make matters more difficult, the seventies advent-ed this strange new device. It was called color TV. What an unbelievable thing color was. In the fifties, they actually began making television without a wooden box built around it, in the shape of furniture. You could buy one and set it on a table. But color, … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 9

The first McDonald’s had appeared in the sixties and you could get a fries, coke and burger for 45 cents. There was no drive through. They had not yet been invented. That came along in the 70’s when the military was so unpopular that the military troops could not leave their car or home in … More ChangesTheBook Chapter 8

Where do I talk to you about the whole cruising the drag thing. All I can relate to was the small town where I spent my junior and senior year in high school. This was a very big part of our lives. You absolutely had to find a way to get enough money to buy … More Chapter 7, ChangesTheBook