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10/15/2008
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| | I remember when we had an icebox
08/06/2008
Although we didn’t want to, we bought a new refrigerator recently. The one we had was less than 5 years old but apparently, just as they don’t write songs or make movies like they used to, they don’t produce appliances that last as long either.
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| | My first real job
07/23/2008
It was the summer of 1940, vacation time between my junior and senior years at Dumont High School. I was 17 and, like just about every boy in those days when the Great Depression still held the nation in its grip, I had a summer job.
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| | I remember when 8 crayons were enough
07/16/2008
Sometimes I forget what a deprived childhood my generation had. There were no plastics, no television, no com-puters, no electronic games. And now I just came across this story in the papers about how the Smithsonian Insti-tute down in Washington has a bo
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| | George Carlin was funny and controversial
07/09/2008
As John Donne wrote, "Any man’s death diminishes me" and so I mourn George Carlin’s death at the young age of 71. However, in the interest of honesty, I should point out that I wasn’t always a Carlin fan so it would probably be hypocritical for me to join
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| | There's no easy way to fix the oil crisis
07/03/2008
Sometimes I wonder who’s most to blame for many of our nation’s problems, the politicians who treat the voters like fools or we voters who prove them right by acting as if we really are the ones to blame.
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| | Air conditioning used to be a luxury
06/25/2008
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| | "I've got a new personal best going"
06/18/2008
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| | Childhood has changed
06/11/2008
When was the last time you saw boys playing stickball in the street?
Or saw girls jumping rope, and who remembers those singsong ditties they would chant? “One potato, two po-tato, three potato, four…”
Remember when every neighborhood had a barrel rim
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| | Who’s that at my door and what are they selling?
05/28/2008
The other evening when my wife and I had settled down in our favorite chairs in the family room to watch the evening news we heard the somewhat surprising sound of the front door chimes.
People seldom come to our front door these days, you see. Family me
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| | Readers share their memories
04/30/2008
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| | Do you know where your credit card is?
04/24/2008
Don’t give your credit number to anyone unless you are sure they represent a reputable company and you placed the call to them.
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| | When Sunday Drives get expensive
04/17/2008
I hope that the price for a gallon of gasoline doesn’t reach the point where my wife and I can’t afford to fill the tank for our regular “Sunday Drive.”
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| | Electricity used
04/11/2008
It was only 125 years ago that the Edison Electricity Co. strung its first wires to its initial 59 customers in New York City.
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| | A stock photo and ‘Lou’
04/04/2008
When I worked on Madison Avenue, many years ago now, I had an embarrassing moment with a stock photo.
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| | A reader’s memory of when the Giants won the pennant
03/28/2008
One of the fringe benefits of writing a column is the mail you receive. I try to answer every letter as long as the return address is readable. I thought I’d occasionally share some of them with my readers.
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