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

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/25/1967 to 10/1/1967

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Rome detectives broke up a Rome-based auto theft ring that whose operations stretched from Chicago to Birmingham to Savannah. The thieves w...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in 1967 - 9/18/1967 to 9/24/1967

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The jury deliberated for less than three hours in the case of Watson Street residents against Minge Cement Company before they issued a perm...
Saturday, September 09, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/11/1967 to 9/17/1967

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The “dust case,” as it was dubbed in the newspaper, finally got its days in court—Floyd Superior Court, to be precise. Watson Street reside...
Saturday, September 02, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/4/1967 to 9/10/1967

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Mike Grass was named lineman of the week by the Rome News-Tribune for his performance in the season-opener Dalton football game, which West...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Life in Four Colors (Part Forty-Two)

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For me, it has always been Fantastic Four . Why? It wasn't my first comic. It wasn't even the first comic I actively collected (...
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

When I'm Sixty-Four

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I first heard the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four" the month it was released. I was thirteen years old, soon to turn fourtee...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/28/1967 to 9/3/1967

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School was back in session for West Rome students as of Monday, .August 28th. (County schools got a couple of extra days off, though, since...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/21/1967 to 8/27/1967

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We’re so accustomed to thinking of I-75 as a “done deal” that it’s almost surprising to learn that much of I-75 through Georgia was incompl...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/14/1967 to 8/20/1967

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Politics never changes: Floyd County residents were upset fifty years ago when they discovered that tax money had been used to pay for road...
Saturday, August 05, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/7/1967 to 8/13/1967

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We were still enjoying summer fifty years ago in West Rome, because school wasn’t scheduled to start back until August 28th (almost a full ...
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