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Archive for October, 2007

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 represented the mid-point of our travels across the great state of Virginia and was the last day during which we stuck to our agressive itinerary. We had stayed at a Super 8 Motel in Appomattox, so our first order of business was to grab our complimentary continental breakfast. From there, as […]

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Rock City and a Changed Perspective

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Rock City was fun enough, but there was nothing mega-cool about it. However, it was this visit to Rock City that triggered a changed of perspective in my head as it related to doing ‘things’ and visiting places. Lisa and I left Clearwater on the morning of Saturday, August 5, 1995 and drove into Tennessee before […]

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Denise, Aaron, Ashleigh, and I arrived at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World at about 10:00am, fresh from a quick morning at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Here we met up with Mom, Bob, and little Adam - who was ready for a day of fun that he will never remember. They were already inside the park […]

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Tommy “Butch” Bond 1980

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

“Butch” Bond was certainly the most memorable of the Our Gang ‘tough guys’. He and his partner Woim could often be found menacing Spanky and Alfalfa and Co. in the more-than dozen films that he appeared in as “Butch” at both the Hal Roach Studios and M-G-M. Three years prior to his stint as “Butch,” […]

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Miss Purdy

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

I was initially interested at the prospect of getting a signed photo of Stella Stevens because she was the January 1960 Playboy Playmate of the Month. So during my Playboy fixation of the late 1990’s, I had Bob snag me the signed photo seen below from one of the Hollywood Collectors Shows. Of course, this […]

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