1957

Laid down on the sofa today, memory taking me back to teen years of so long ago. When friend Danny and I would go down town on Saturday afternoon to see a movie at the Paramount, a movie palace with a wide screen, that would put the theaters of today to shame. We saw such movies as "The True Story of Jesse James", Gunfight at the Ok Corral", "The Incredible Shrinking Man' and so many more. Sometimes we would go over to Marshall's Music room next door and play records for hours in the sound booth upstairs, where we would listen to such stars as Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and the comets, the man who started Rock ' n Roll. Then later we would go across the street to the City Drug and have a coke for ten cents, then catch a bus home. Where on Saturday night these two college students from Iowa State had a TV Show called Graves 'n Manor, which showed monster movies until 2 in the morning, we made some popcorn and had our Pepsi in the bottle. Lets not forget this was the year that " Leave it to Beaver" had its start on TV and American Bandstand and a very young Dick Clark was on Saturday afternoon. This was the year that the New York Yankess and the Milwaukee Braves played in the World Series won by the Braves in seven games. Ford put out one of the best cars ever that year, which for a time was driven by Ward Clever on "Leave it to Beaver". My brother who was still in the Navy came home on leave and to our surprise had bought one and brought it home with him, and my friend Danny and i helped my brother wash it one Saturday afternoon, while we listend to "That'll Be the Days" What a car, what a song, and what a great year it was, I could write a book about this year along. Written 5-12-11