I do not have any pictures from this trip, and I cannot remember the exact year of the trip. Our family vacations either started the week before July 4th or that week. My dad’s company closed during the week of July 4th every year. Dad had worked there long enough […]
Good Ole Days
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In 1963, I worked for Gulf Oil in the Electronic Data Processing (EDP) Department. Part of my job was as a courier, making trips to the Gulf Port Arthur Refinery on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. To reach Port Arthur today, you can drive most of the way on I-10 to […]
Many books have been written about what it means to be a friend, and everyone has at least one of them. A person’s age has an impact on how they define people they consider a friend and what characteristics they hold as most important. When you have lived a long […]
Watching the spacecraft splash down yesterday brought back memories of my time working at NASA during the Gemini days. That was the period when the greatest advances were made in many areas. Computer software was designed and developed like no other, using IBM 7094 technology as a base for the […]
I remember a time—it seems like another lifetime but is as clear as if it were yesterday—when you could dance with your date and sing along with the words. The music may be slow or even faster, but you could dance with the rhythm, and your mate would match your […]
I was looking through old photos and came across these pictures from the Sam Houston High School 25th reunion of the Class of 1961. Here is proof that 40+ year-olds still could dance. That was the year it was at a hotel in the Galleria, and we all showed up […]
As I watched the reporting of the wildfires in California, they showed images of Malibu, and a memory from the past came back. Until just a few years ago, the Toyota Motor Sales of America headquarters was in Torrance California. During the 1974-78 years, I was the Director of IT […]
Last night I was watching a Christmas movie and a big part of the movie involved discovering information about her grandmother’s relationship before getting married. So, parts of the movie were flashbacks that began just before Christmas in 1941. This is not a movie review; except I will say I […]
With each new model year, while I was working for Gulf States Toyota, Toyota would have a new car showing to present new models to the news media. Those events were in various parts of the world. In 1975 it was in Toyoko, in 1976 it was in Mexico City, […]
Barbara and Clifford Rains have been our friends for years. Clifford and I were in many classes together from the seventh grade at Burbank through graduation at Sam Houston. We continued to be friends over the years since. Barbara and Clifford were married in 1967 and bought a house near […]