Author Archives
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The first First Lady’s first Day
It only takes 45 minutes to take the shuttle to New York from Washington’s Reagan National Airport, located in Virginia on the Potomac River, but it took eleven days for Martha Washington to make the same distance of a trip… Read More ›
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Super-Seventies Movie! The Nixons & John Wayne, the Gabors, Mary Tyler Moore, Glen Campbell, Lawrence Welk & More!
Plaid sport-jackets, bell-bottom pants, wide ties in eye-popping patterns, macrame shawls, wedge heels, massive patent-leather handbags, frosted hair, pompadoured hair, seersucker suits, rayon everything, white belts, hot pants, wrap skirts, Maude-like whatever-they’re-called shoulder-to-floor vest-skirts. It was the ubiquitous vibe of… Read More ›
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“Aunt Esther” to Queen Victoria: Three Degrees of Celebrity Separation!
La Wanda “Aunt Esther” Page to Frank Sinatra to Richard Nixon to the Duke of Windsor to Queen Victoria It’s only a mere four degrees of separation from a Queen of Comedy, actress La Wanda Page to a Queen of… Read More ›
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The Very First Online Hookups, Old-School Style
The latest generation of electronic tech promising the most reliable hookup for those looking to meet is always new. Human desires for love and lust is not. Long decades before the likes of hundreds of ubiquitous sites allowed the almighty… Read More ›
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Other Photos & Stars from Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Night to JFK & His Reaction
Fifty years ago tonight, more happened than just Marilyn Monroe singing her famous sultry rendition of Happy Birthday to President Kennedy. With the need to reduce so much news and history to a single snapshot image or quotable line, the… Read More ›
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The Most Shocking Truth About JFK & Marilyn Monroe?
Context is everything. Documentation, even better. It may be devastating to the American people to suggest that a romanticized story they have long cherished and held dear about a beloved President might be, in fact, utterly false or at least… Read More ›
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Jackie’s Husband & the Onassis Mistress: JFK & Callas (& Marilyn Monroe) Get Together
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy, born on May 29, had his birthday turned into a massive Hollywood meets Washington convergence at a May 19 fundraiser held in New York’s Madison Square Garden. The event proved highly successful, paying off… Read More ›
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Tennessee’s Jack & Mary Fudge Pie
Many people recognize the taste of Jack & Coke from a sip. One bite will never let you forget Jack & Mary. Since it first filtered the fresh spring water of local caves through a sour corn mash into barrels… Read More ›
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A Dog on the Verge of Loss: Fostercare Weimaraner #1 Paddinginton
A year ago yesterday marks what became the last three-weeks of my dog Yeager’s life. One can find on this website articles I’ve written about some of that experience (with links below). So much of what proved to be a… Read More ›
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Silent Cal & The Silent Era Cowboy: Coolidge Mix with Tom
Even in the era of bathtub gin, flappers and daredevils sitting atop flagpoles for days on end, it was a pretty startling sight. Here came a massive chestnut-colored horse galloping through the gates of the White House to pause beneath… Read More ›
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