Shakey’s pizza went down

It was a Saturday June 8, 1974. I had just gone on the air at radio station KXXO in Tulsa. My shift started just before six PM. The news services teletypes were clicking and dinging . Weather was the big news at the moment. So my shift started out just reading weather bulletins. The fullContinue reading “Shakey’s pizza went down”

I love the smell of fresh pressed rubber tires.

The Golden State/Sooner State connection. Having grown up in a tiny house near a major industrial area in Los Angeles, we were just down wind from the B F Goodrich tire factory. Almost in the shadow of the Willard Battery water tower. Just north of the railroad tracks near the Union Pacific switching yards. AContinue reading “I love the smell of fresh pressed rubber tires.”

What a cool place to work Pops.

posted by Chuck Ayers   The oil refinery. My dad told people he would meet he worked as a night supervisor at an oil refinery.  However the oil he spoke of was soy bean vegetable oil.  That and shortenings and margarines.  Most of which went to large commercial bakeries. During world war II a bigContinue reading “What a cool place to work Pops.”

Throwing out the constitution with the bathwater

  Its almost like re-writing the Bible.  Changing truths to suit our own life style. This is what haters of the US Constitution are trying to do.  Get rid of rule of law and American History.  Forget the past, make it up as we go along.  The constitution may be old and stodgy but itContinue reading “Throwing out the constitution with the bathwater”

No, we are Democrats.

                The supreme commander of NATO came back to the United States in order to run for president. I told my mom General Eisenhower has arrived back in America and will run for President.  This was early spring 1952 and I was in the second grade.  By the way this was my first awareness ofContinue reading “No, we are Democrats.”

From big to little.

  From square footage to hand held. What you missed by being born too late. What you did miss was huge electronic equipment to do what simple desktop PCs can now do.  My very first big job back in 1969 after leaving college was with the Schick Razor Company in Culver City, California. Just aroundContinue reading “From big to little.”