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maintaining a fifty-seven year tradition of commenting on things that interest me...

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 6/1/1964 to 6/7/1964

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Most millennials have no idea what the Selective Service was, but all of us who grew up in the 1960s are quite familiar with "the draft...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 5/25/1964 to 5/31/1964

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West Rome High School announced that 104 students would participate in graduation ceremonies as the 1963-64 school year wrapped up this week...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

A Life in Four Colors (Part Forty-One)

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It's amazing how compact our world is when we're young. I've mentioned a variety of important places in my life in prior insta...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 5/18/1964 to 5/24/1964

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Romans were spending more money in 1964, and the local economy was booming as a result. Merchants reported that charge account balances were...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 5/11/1964 to 5/17/1964

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One of Rome's largest employers in the 1960s was General Electric, located just a mile or so down the road from West Rome High School on...
Saturday, May 03, 2014

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 5/4/1964 to 5/10/1964

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Rome certainly had its share of big-dollar burglaries back in the mid-60sBurglars broke into Elliott Sales Company on May 4th and stole mor...
Monday, April 28, 2014

The Yelp Protection Racket Redux

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I've never had as many hits as I got on last night's post about Yelp's business practices. I've heard from dozens of busi...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Fifty Years Ago This Week in 1964: 4/27/1964 to 5/4/1964

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Spring thunderstorms hit Rome Tuesday evening, April 28th, bringing brief heavy rain, 35 mile per hour wind gusts, and quarter-inch hailston...

Late Night Listening: A Letter Home

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I've been a Neil Young fan for forty-five years now. But I have to confess I'm still shaking my head after multiple playings of ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

The Yelp Protection Racket

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 Most businessmen don't make a habit of calling attention to negative reviews, but I'm about to do that very thing. Let me expla...
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