I grabbed these photos off Deirdre’s FaceBook page. Ann/Mom married Roy Pattillo in the mid 1960′s. She was first married to John Sr. in the mid-fifties and early sixties and had Renee, Russell and I and then she and Roy had my sister Deirdre. Renee, Ann/Mom, Deirdre and Jimmie and I were sitting around the kitchen table here at the house Sunday talking about the days with baby Deirdre. DAP has been a treasure to all of us from the day she was born. We were all close with Roy and he was a priceless treasure to this family. My father, Roy, Uncle Raymond and my Grandfather were the most influential men to me. The three Whipples in that group had a

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I promise I won’t keep putting too many of these up. But this one is cute little Jimmie, her sister Becky and their Dad in England.

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WTAM
This is the radio station we listened to in Cleveland and My Dad worked on the third floor of the NBC building for Beaumont and Homan Advertising. His boss was Mac Macabe (How is that for long term memory?

Since there was no TV radio was our only news from the outside world until someone went outside to get the newspaper. We had a breakfast room just off the kitchen which was boost heated by the stovetop, oven, and closing the doors into the living room where the radio was. We woke up in pajamas with cap and put on our slippers to meet Jack Frost in the hall that had followed the milkman in the back door.

Life was simple when you were seven. Mother would read the news and our favorite one was Ernie pyle and little Annie Rooney Ernie Pyle to the rest of the family who was a famous war reporter. I remember the morning his column said he had been killed the day before by a carefully hidden sniper. . .we all cried and went into the living room and the up to the minute news on the big Stromberg Carlson radio in the cold lining room.

The same one and the same station that told us that President Roosevelt had died. It was in the afternoon while i was listening to my radio programs Jack Armstrong and Terry and the pirates. A history list on Cleveland.

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Many mentions of him of the blog over the years. He’s just about my

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She was quite a charactor to be sure. I really liked her.

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Remember the old American Bantam; Auburn; Austin, Cord, Crosley De Soto; Frazer; Graham Hudson; Hupmobile; La Fayette; La Salle; Lincoln Zephyr; Marmon; Nash; Oldsmobile; Pierce Arrow; Plymouth; Reo; Rambler; Stutz; Studebaker; Stanley Steamer; Terraplane; Tucker; Willys Overland Knight; and Whippet!

somehow the magic of my fascination of the American automobile was in those weird ones just like me.

For 30 years at an old service station that turned “garage” through the years and an old man by the name of Otho Ellis. He arrived early each morning and was in, around and under a car till late at night. Yet, he always seemed to have enough time to

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Pronounced Due Zee.

In my younger day this saying was used a lot. I never knew exactly what it meant except what ever they were referring too was really cool!

Words, (being pictures in the mind) making language our most used art form. Poor, but, the best we have and English being the worst or almost the worst, and getting even worser. If worse is a good word worser should also be a good word. But, it is not.

Our language would be better if we could just change “worser” to be a good word.

Well, This is a duesey

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Head’s up Whippleworld. New Year’s Eve this year will feature a once every twenty year lunar event. You’ll be free to do the crazy things you swore you’d only do on a……

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a home recording of one of his original songs.

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From left to right: Levi Pullin, Rosie, Aunt Phyllis and Hattie Pullin. Phyllis is my grandmother’s sister and Levi and Hattie Pullin are their parents. My great grandparents. Rosie was a nanny but much more than that, she was an adopted member of the family. Look at that stringer of fish! It will go full screen with a click – notice the cane poles on the side of the car. And how nicely dressed everybody is for fishing. And how clean they managed to stay after catching more than a hundred fish. It’s an image of Texas coastal bend Americana; we have a lot of history there.

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