I do remember … ,
I was lying in bed late the other night trying to go to sleep.
When I heard the haunting sound of a far away train whistle.
I lay there for a minute or two, listening, to the whistle blew as it crossed a couple of crossings.
I remember … the train whistles blowing late at night when I was young.
I remember … It would be after midnight as I lay in bed with a headphone on one ear, plugged into my World War II short-wave radio, listening to one of two radio stations.
I’d either have the 50,000-watt station, KWKH 1130 on the AM dial out of Shreveport, LA. KWKH was one of the first radio stations to broadcast Elvis Presley on the old “Louisiana Hayride” radio show.
Or, I would be listening to the “Outlaw-Borderblaster” XERF 1570 AM coming from DEL REO, TX. Well, it’s really, Del Rio, TX / Villa Acuna, MX. The offices were in Del Rio and the radio tower was in Villa Acuna. A 50,000 wt station like KWKH could up it wattage in Mexico to 500,000 watts. With 250,000 or 500,000 watts, XERF could be heard in 36 States and mid-central Canada.
XERF was where Wolfman Jack got his start.
I remember … one night I was listening to, A cowboy song, sung by Hank Williams, “(I heard that) Lonesome whistle”, I heard one of the many trains that passed through town blow it’s whistle.
So, The train whistle’s blowing the other night brought back memories of my youth, listening to “outlaw” radio from DEL RIO, TX, or maybe listening to that new guy on the “Louisiana Hayride”.
I do remember … good memories.

SLINKYS

I do remember … I was setting here looking at my super, neat, new, flat screen monitor, which was a Birthday/Christmas gift from my brother this year. What a great, great gift.
Then I remembered one of the worst gifts I ever received for Christmas.
No, it wasn’t a sweater with Santa Claus on it. Nor was it a bunch of underwear.
There may have been worst gifts but the one I remember as the worst gift I received when I was a kid, was the SLINKY.
Yes, I still think that the SLINKY was one of the dumbest toys ever made. We lived in one story house so we didn’t have any place that had more then one step.
What fun, a Slinky and one step. WOW.
I know, I know, the SLINKY is one of the top, toy icons from the nineteen fifties, a dumb gift, toy. Yep, dumb toy.
Although the Slinky was invented in the late nineteen forties, the lame toy
came into it’s own in the early fifties. That was my good luck and I received a Slinky for Christmas one year.
My flat screen is a much better Christmas gift.
I do remember…

I Do remember ...

Yes, I do remember yesterday and the many yesterdays before that.
I find that most people don't want to listen to my remembrance.
I maybe naive or arrogant to believe that others might want to glen some small amount of wisdom from my remembering.
I have done somethings correctly.
Others could learn from me but, ... they won't.
From time to time I'll put my thoughts and just lists of things I remember.
Things such as:
Listening to The Lone Ranger on radio.
Watching The Lone Ranger on TV for the first time. It was in a Tavern (beer joint) in Greenwood, Nebraska. The population was approximately two hundred and fifty people , dogs and cats at that time. I was around nine years old and my brother was about seven years old.
My brother and I sat at the bar to watch Tonto and his side kick, The Lone Ranger, foil the bad guys.
Oh yes, I didn't forget Silver and Scout.

This is a sample of things I remember.
Until next time, REMEMBER.