re: You know you are getting old when you remember....

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"I remember in the 60s when we got our first color TV just in time to watch the Wizard of Oz on TV that night." ME TOO, it was an Admiral TV and we had the whole neighborhood over to watch. Only reason was because my grandfather was a dealer and gave my parents credit to pay it off.

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Admiral and Zenith ... those were the bomb. Curtis Mathes were expensive.

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For JFK's funeral, the whole school went to the gym with a TV set in the middle of the court.

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Yep ... I was in the 4th or 5th grade. We did the same thing except they had TVs in some of the classrooms.

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When we were in Memphis, sometimes we would drive by Graceland. If there were a bunch of cars,
Elvis was there.

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I remember those days. Highway 51 South, Whitehaven, towards Southaven, before it was renamed Elvis Presley Blvd. Yep ... if there were a bunch of cars out front that usually meant EP was in the house. Sometimes you could see him walking around out front with his entourage, other times he might be pulling out of the gate in his Lincoln or Caddy.

Back then Lansky Brothers was still in business, they may still be I dunno ... but he would go down there to buy clothes whenever he was in town. That was before he started spending most of his time in Vegas. People would find out he was in town and they would hang around Lansky Brothers waiting for him to show-up.

And yeah, I remember when we all had shotguns in the back windows of our trucks at school. No one thought anything about it. Hell, we used to trade pistols sometimes out in the parking lot ... it's where I bought my first pistol, a Colt Python, in my HS parking lot. Bought my second one there too ... a 1911.

Talk about movies in Memphis. I remember when Raleigh, Bartlett, Cordova and even Germantown were out in the country. I remember going to watch my oldest brother, who played for Treadwell, play against Tim McCarver at Christian Brothers, they were the two big in-city studs in baseball that year, both of them catchers. But anyways, after that game we went to the Loew's Palace theater to see King Creole and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

I've still got a ton of those old Peterson paper shotgun shells. We had a family place at Maddox Bay, Arkansas (we actually just sold it recently) where we duck hunted so we had cases and cases of those things. I've still got a bunch of them, I'm looking at them right now as a matter of fact.

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Lansky Brothers was still in business

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LB is still going. I went to the Arky State game this past fall and stayed at the Peabody in Memphis. There is a LB shop off the lobby. There is another store on Beale. Do a search.

I grew-up in the MO Bootheel, so Memphis is the closest big city. I was born there.

We got dressed-up to see "The Sound of Music" somewhere downtown.

My dad belonged to a hunting club just northwest of Holly Grove. I'm not too sure where Maddox Bay is, but I think it was darn close.

Scrooster - we keep running into each other. What ta hell...we related?

Loved Sambo's

I would love to watch that movie today but Disney won't put it on DVD because it's racist.

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LB is still going. I went to the Arky State game this past fall and stayed at the Peabody in Memphis. There is a LB shop off the lobby. There is another store on Beale. Do a search.

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I stay at the Peabody every time I go to Memphis these days ... was just there last year at an auction where I won a barber chair from the original hotel barber shop. I'm having it restored. I can't remember seeing a Lansky's while I was there. But we were always in an out visiting family and friends or eating out back at the Texas Brazilian, partying down on Beale. It's old hat stuff for me but my wife and (grown) kids always like going there to visit, see the ducks, etc., as long as I am paying for it.

I was born there, but was back and forth between there and SC most of my childhood because of the business my Dad was in. We moved permanently from Memphis two days after MLK was assassinated, while the city was still burning. As an adult, I lived in Olive Branch for five years with my first wife ... Maywood actually, on Sylvan Lake.

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I grew-up in the MO Bootheel, so Memphis is the closest big city. I was born there.

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Yeah, I dated a girl from Paragould but all her family was from Kennett so I know the area well. Maddox Bay is more towards Stuttgart and Hot Springs - it's actually closer to Holly Grove, as you noted ... drive under the trestle in Holly Grove and keep going until you run into the bay. My half sister was born, and lives, in Braggadocio so I've been there a few times too. She married a Ford.

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Scrooster - we keep running into each other. What ta hell...we related?

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Probably just some of the same old stomping grounds. Small world though.

I still have one of those!!

Saturday MLB Baseball game of the week...saturday afternoons with Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek and Joe garagiola. Still the best baseball anouncing crew EVAR in my book. I loved kubek.

There were no other games on. Would sit there with my granddad with a TV tray, sandwiches and he'd have a beer or two. Was awesome. Simpler times. Simpler times.

While Sam and our guide Umfudo is getting eaten by a crocodile and gored by a rhinoceros I am reviewing my Mutual of Omaha's Catastrophic Eye and Dental Insurance


Tho