Tag: The 60’s

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  December 9, 2017Myrtle Beach, The 1960's

  Goot Knew

  The main thing that kept us boys in line at school was the threat of corporeal punishment.  Any man old enough to remember when it was legal for school teachers […]

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  September 2, 2016Baby Boomers, Myrtle Beach, Silver Soldiers, The 1960's

  The Next Breath

  Once, in the sixth or seventh grade, my father took me to a high school football game. We stood in the end zone watching the last gasp of another gridiron […]

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  August 26, 2016Baby Boomers, Myrtle Beach, Romance, Silver Soldiers, The 1960's

  Center of the Heavens

  All I wanted in high school was a date with Francine Little, the Pekingese puppy. An inexplicably magnetic agglomeration of parts she was. Seemingly mismatched parts if viewed separately, and […]

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  May 20, 2016Myrtle Beach, The 1960's

  Boys and Their Toys

  My most frequent companion in high school was an automobile, a 1965 Mustang. Not one of the hot ones, only a six cylinder. Aside from the hours of sleep, and […]

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  August 29, 2015Baby Boomers, Myrtle Beach, Romance, Shag Dancing

  All You Need is Love

  When I was a kid growing up in The Land of Shag, romance was my daily bread, also the peanut butter and jelly; I hungered for it more than French […]