If you are of advanced age, as am I, you must remember Jack Benny. Jack’s reputation as a supreme tight wad is unsurpassed. Perhaps the longest laugh he ever got, (on radio) was his answer to a robber, who held a gun on him, and said, “Your money or your life.” His answer, after a […]

In January, of 1980, I bought a new motorcycle. I lived in Phoenix at the time. In January, Phoenix is full of “snowbirds,” who come from northern climes, to bask in the warm weather and sun. Traffic can be really hellish during Phoenix winters, so I decided to buy a motorcycle, to get around quickly. […]

In 1933, at the height of the depression, an unemployed, broke, actor, by the name of Robert Porterfield, tried something new, to keep himself in food. He took an old movie theatre in Abingdon Virginia, (It had a stage too) and offered plays to the public, for anything they had to give, as an admission […]

“My Dear Colonel Dick: I have long determined to make public the origin of the greenback, and tell the world it is Dick Taylor’s creation. You have always been friendly to me, and when troublous times fell on us, and my shoulders, though broad and willing, were weak, and myself surrounded by such circumstances and […]