Prohibition Repealed: Real Beer Was Back!
My 99 year old father, Abe Geyer, was working at the Edelbrew Brewery when Prohibition was repealed. Here is his account.
Where are they now? Ad “Creatives” Re-Unite
DDB, the ad agency that started the creative revolution in the sixties, held a reunion of art directors and writers responsible.
I Want to be a Cowboy When I Grow Up.
Boomer boys loved Westerns. There are parallels between their coming of age and the mystique of the Old West.
Our First Christmas Tree Together
It was winter in New York. Snow and Christmas trees for sale on every corner. Ah, but for what price?
It’s Amazing We Survived
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids… on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when [...]
Blackout Dinner: A Thanksgiving Realization.
By Greg Tamblyn Dining in the Dark: Scary Fun We are invited to a swank hotel lobby, given beverages, finger food, and aprons. An excellent musician plays piano in the background. Lots of upscale people are milling around, waiting, like us. Finally, a chef from California instructs us to line up according to table numbers, [...]
There’s 2 (or more) People Living Inside Your Head
By Roy Klein Something like this has probably happened to you: You’re doing your weekly grocery shopping, about to pick up your usual breakfast cereal – shredded wheat. Out of the corner of your eye, though, you see a new cereal on the shelf – chocolate brownie oats. You suddenly can’t decide between the two. [...]
The Four Types of Modern-day Hippie
By Robert Fuller The popular hippie counterculture that started back in the 1960’s was indeed so popular that even now, the concept and the culture still manage to live on. However, the years have changed the counterculture a great deal. Despite the attempts of true-blue hippies to carry out and retain the genuine hippie spirit [...]
Saving it for Years? Throw the #@%&x Thing out!
By Roy Klein It may be apocryphal, but I’ve been hearing this story for years. When two elderly spinster sisters passed away, the authorities discovered that their entire house was filled floor to ceiling with so many carefully labeled boxes of junk that only a narrow, labyrinthine passageway remained. One of the boxes allegedly bore [...]
The Momoir: A Memoir of Your Child’s Life
By Linda Howard Clark [Momoir: a built-in auto-focus on your busy, sometimes blurry life It brings a sharpness and clarity to events that otherwise tend to blend together. It captures details better than any photograph.] My daughter Charlotte Spring Clark came to us within the same week that my mother died. She was born in [...]
How a Certifiable Looney Gave Horror Comics in the Fifties the Axe.
By Gary Geyer To many of us, the spring of 1954 was the beginning of the end of the world. That was the year an evil do-gooder tried to save us. His name was Dr. Fredrick Wertham and he wrote a book called The Seduction of The Innocent. His book just about destroyed (KABOOM!) the [...]
