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

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/27/1967 to 12/3/1967

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Rome manufacturing growth continued with Trend Mills announcing plans to triple their West Rome facility space and add 150 new jobs. The ma...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/20/1967 to 11/26/1967

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Rome City school students celebrated Thanksgiving with a five-day weekend. Students were off Wednesday through Sunday, while teachers used ...
Friday, November 10, 2017

I'm a Muddler

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Yes, I confess: I'm a muddler. I've always loved the bittersweet aspect of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"--an...

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/13/1967 to 11/19/1967

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West Rome residents were dealing with traffic frustrations this week in 1967 as the roads department was resurfacing the entirety o...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

A Life in Four Colors Part Forty-Four: Four-Color Fantasia (1961)

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Ever since I posted a list of what comics I bought new off the spinner racks in West Rome in 1967, I've heard from a number of people as...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

A Life in Four Colors Part Forty-Three: Four Color Fantasia (November 1967)

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By late 1967, I had found a way to balance my insatiable desire for comics with my interest in pulp adventure (Doc Savage, Conan, and the wo...
Saturday, November 04, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/6/1967 to 11/12/1967

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This was a quiet mid-November week in Rome. The Chieftains football team had an off week after their region win a week earlier, so there wa...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/30/1967 to 11/5/1967

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Coach Paul Kennedy of West Rome and Coach Larry Muschamp of East Rome both agreed on one thing in the lead-in to the East-West football gam...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Fifty Years This Week in West Rome - 10/23/1967 to 10/29/1967

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The West Rome Honor Society sponsored a homecoming car smash on Saturday at 7:30 PM, after the “beat Calhoun” bonfire and before the footba...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/16/1967 to 10/22/1967

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The Chieftain’s win over Cedartown propelled them to the number one slot in the Region 6-AA title race, while Roger Weaver maintained his p...
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