Vintage Albany
Tweet General Curtis LeMay, known to be a racing fan as well as a participant, would close the runways at Turner Air Force base to airplane traffic in the 1950’s and let race car drivers use the huge runways for racing. It brought large crowds out to the base and provided needed money to be [...]
Read More →VINTAGE ALBANY- Baseball and Albany
Tweet The game of baseball became a craze in the US by the mid 1850’s when it was introduced in New York. Baseball has a long history with Albany as well. Going back at least to the 1870’s when Albany had the D. E. Smith ball club. One of Albany’s early baseball parks was [...]
Read More →The Great Moon Pie Caper
Tweet By Betty Rehberg Cue the music…the opening theme from the old TV show Dragnet. Dum de dum dum…dum de dum dum dummmm… The story you are about to hear is all true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent, well not really, as this writer did not know their names, [...]
Read More →A Child’s Christmas
Tweet Written by Betty Rehberg Every year Mama would let us go through the Sears and Roebuck catalog and mark our favorite toys. Then she would either let Santa know what we wanted or she and Daddy would get it on lay-away at Sears. Chatty Cathy was the big toy that most girls [...]
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