This is one of the biggest celebrity homes that I have seen! The home is huge and includes a tennis court and basketball court outdoors, plus and indoor basketball court. The home is located in Illinois. If Michael were ever to move, he would probably have to pay a fortunate for moving […]

You might not have realized it, but Mount Everest is not called Mount Everest anymore! The Mountain was named Everest by the British in 1865 to honor Sir George Everest who was the Surveyor-General in the Survey of India. Everest had mapped and measured the peak in 1852.
However, China claims that […]

I had completely forgotten about the television series “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.” It was a hit from 1979-1981. Gil Gerard played the lead character Buck Rogers. Gerard was born January 23, 1943 in Arkansas. He never completed college, but landed a job as an industrial chemist. The […]

The Ford Mustang was consider the “cool” car when I was growing up. The car was introduced the first time on April 17, 1964 at the World’s Fair in New York. The first Mustangs came in a coupe of a convertible style. The first Mustang was sold to Captain Stanley Tucker an airline […]

More than fifty years ago, the Desert Trek shoes from Clarks shoes were all the rage. These shoes were introduced in 1950 and based on boots that Nathan Clark’s army friends had purchased in Cairo. Later Clark would introduce the Wallabee, the classic shoe of the 70s (I had a pair)!

If you have been watching the Olympics, you know that Michael Phelps won eight gold medals beating Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in one Olympics. However, if you are a youngster, you might not even know who Mark Spitz is.

Mark Spitz was born on February 10, 1950 in Modesto, California. By […]

Here is a cool video that I found on YouTube. It is in the old Hewlett Packard commercial style. They use picture frames to highlight the face and then manipulate these in the video. I love the disappearing act at the end.

When I was growing up, this is the outdoor furniture that we had . Times have certainly changed! There is a big market for all kinds of outdoor furniture and outdoor furniture covers. If you have the money, you can buy this fancy set. The price is $1,849 for the chair […]

Now that the Olympics are in full swing, I am reminded of the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Remember the Olympic Park Bombings? The FBI originally thought that Richard Jewell, a private security guard working in Centennial Olympic Park, was the bomber. On July 27 at about 1:00am, Jewell noticed a suspicious […]

When my sister and I were much younger, we watched the movie “Breaking Away.” One of the characters, Moocher, played by Jackie Earle Haley, had a bad case of acne and was not very attractive. My sister and I continued seeing him in various other movies and we even cut out magazine pictures […]