Category: Nostalgia

  • A.W.K. UND STALIES

    As most of you are aware, I spent a good part of my time with the Bell System in the field of labor relations.  The management of AT&T, principally Verne Bagnell, decided in July of 1951 that I should become a management employee.  There were two moves in the future to Kansas City and then…

  • KNIVES, EVERYDAY AND SUNDAY

    In this essay I am going to be talking only about pocket knives, as distinguish from knives that are meant to kill.  I suspect that this again is an exercise in nostalgia. Looking back more than 70 or 75 years ago, there was a custom having to do with knives.  My father, for example, would…

  • CHARLES H. AND LITTLE AUGUST

    Over the years I have introduced you, my readers, to the various members of my family.  In total, there were eight children.  Martha and Ruth, born in 1920 and 1924, were probably stillbirths.  That was a subject that the children were never encouraged to ask about.  Also in 1924 there was the death of my…

  • ESCORTS VS. PLAIN OLD PROSTITUTION (POP)

    I do not intend to claim great expertise in the field of escorts or in the field of plain old prostitution.  What brings all of this to mind is an incident earlier in April of this year wherein some Secret Service agents had a soiree in Cartagena, Colombia and then invited the women to their…