Time Line

Birthdays

July: 18th – Bill Holland; 19th – Dolores Domning Meo; 19th – Don Jobson; 21th – Janet Reno; 29th – Lenny "Scoop" Kacher; 31st – Anne Jensen Harper

August: 5th – Marc Adams, 15th – Bill Gautier; 18th – Stewart Harnell; 23rd – Bill Schroeder; 26th – Council Kelly; 31st – Nancy Lomax Leslie

September: 8th – John DeMas; 15th – Cary Findlay; 17th – Bob Adams; 22st – Sally Moore Groth; 23st – Bill Cotton

Anniversaries

July: July 1, 1961 – Bill and Dot Boggess Shaffer; July 10, 1960 – Laura Kavalir and Bob Wright (Happy 49th!); July 12,1958 – Beth McDonald and Gib Johnson; July 15, 1963 – David and Donna Willis; July 15, 1963 – Ted and Florence Webb; July 25, 1993 – Kathy Bell and Chuck Thagard

August: August 4, 1962 – Bill and Karen Sutton; August 6, 2007 – Bill and Dorothy Schroeder (Happy 2st!); August 14, 1962 – Don and Pat Jobson; August 23, 1958 – Rhona Berube and Ambrose Chabot

September: September 10, 1960 - Glenn and Diane McNew (Happy 49th!)

If your birthday and/or wedding day aren’t here, it’s because we don’t have them!

Other significant 2009 anniversaries:

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

"One of America’s most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers"

"The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music turned 70 on April 30, 2009, a significant anniversary that most people would probably find difficult to believe. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich remains a strikingly youthful presence, with her sparkling blue eyes, ever-present smile and good cheer."

Our classmate, the composer and violinist was born in Miami, studied at FSU and then with Ivan Galamian in New York. She played in the American Symphony Orchestra under Stokowski and later studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at the Juilliard School of Music, taking a DMA in composition in 1975, the first woman to do so. In 1983 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Symphony No. 1. From a more astringently contemporary style, her music has developed into a more generally tonal idiom, using more conventional materials, blending suggestions of neo-classicism with the neo-romantic, in a language that has proved popular with American audiences.

Read the rest of the article about Ellen from the South Florida Classical Review by clicking this link.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s 70th Birthday Tribute

You know you grew up in old Miami....

If you can remember these....

When the Courthouse was the tallest building
When US1 was only two lanes
Pier 5 where you could buy fresh fish right off the boat
When the people on South Beach were older than the buildings
Ralph Renick
Howard Johnson's fried clams and ice cream
The Jackie Gleason show with the June Taylor dancers
Riddle Airlines
Medley Speedway
Tanner's grocery stores
Planes spraying for fruit flies
Bayfront Bandshell
The Miami News (afternoon paper)
When the Rusty Pelican burned down
The Tropicaire Drive-In and swap meet
The Ferris wheel atop Burdines downtown
When Jordan Marsh was new
Riviera Theater, Sunset Theater
National Airlines, Air Florida and Eastern Airlines
Pan Am's airport at Dinner Key
When the Rickenbacker was a drawbridge (only 25 cents)
The Skipper Chuck Show and the Sunday Funnies
Lindsley Lumber
Zayres
JByrons
Hot Shoppes Paileys Big Wheel
Crandon Park Zoo
Johnny and Mack by the railroad track
Sheehan Buick on 8th Street ... when it was called 8th Street
Gretners Restaurant, The Flame, Dixie Bell Inn, The Depot
Black Angus Restaurant at 104 street
Holsum Bakery's wonderful smell of bread baking on US1
When Dadeland was an open-air mall
When there was only a Gulf station on US 1 cross from Shorty's
When Tamiami airport was on the Tamiami Trail
A&W Drive in restaurants
Lums and their frozen schooners and wieners in beer
The Village Inn
The Playboy Clubs
Big Daddy's Lounges
Auto Inspections
Roberts Western Wear and OK Feed Store
The English Pub and Jamaican Inn on Key Biscayne
Claude Pepper's picnics at Tropical Park
Tropical Park when it was a racetrack
South Miami Hospital when it was only one building.
When they built Baptist hospital
When everyone thought the turnpike extension was built too far out
When Coconut Grove was a hippie hangout
Sam and Carl's Deli in S Miami
Rock concerts at Miami Jai Alai stadium
Sunniland Pony Rides
Land Crabs on Old Cutler
The diving board and dock at Matheson Hammock pond
Barefoot Mailman
Bill Haas and the Serpentarium
Concerts at the Miami Marine Stadium
Sunday country dancing at Alabama Jack's Tyler's Restaurant
Live & Let Live drug store
Engel's Drug Store in Grove
When South Beach was just below 5th Street
Food Fair
Pantry Pride
Piggly Wiggly
Fla. License with Letters depicting size of car
The Miami Springs Villas
Miami Seahawks pro football team
Red Cross Drugs in downtown Miami
King Arthur's Court in Miami Springs
Men's Grill at Burdines
Richard's Bargain Basement
The Round Table restaurant on US1 near UM
Royal Castle hamburgers ("sliders") @ 15 cents, birch beer 5 cents
Jimmy's Hurricane drive-in on Bird
Black Caesar's Forge in South Dade
"Yes, We Have No Bananas"
Bus riding all over the county with paper transfers getting punched
The black beach on Virginia Key
Greynolds Park hill...the highest point in Dade County
Only two highways north: US 1 and 27
Warning signs about roasting marshmallows with oleander sticks
Cuban crisis; missile silos in ground all over south Dade
All rental cars had E license tags
Tags had number for county size: Dade 1, Liberty 67
Chalk Airlines and Goodyear Blimp base on Watson Island
Seasonal arrival of buzzard colonies atop Courthouse
Burdines installing the state's first escalator
The caves at Venetian Pool
Absolutely nothing west of the airport until Doral
Orange Bowl: HS football Thursday nights, UM Friday nights
The par-54 night-lighted golf course on South Dixie Highway
The paper man downtown who had no legs and rolled around on a piece of board and skate wheels.
The shoeshine boys downtown near Richards Dept Store
The huge Christmas display at the Holsum Bakery on US1
And that perennial favorite, Shorty’s Bar BQ

25 THINGS ABOUT TO BECOME EXTINCT IN AMERICA

Check out this list of 25 things that are on the way out.
At the Wildman Hangout, you can read all about it by clicking on the above link. This was suggested by Marc Adams.

History Exam

This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life.

Get paper & pencil & number from 1 to 20.
Write the letter of each answer & score at the end.

NO Cheating - don't look at the answers until you take the test!!!!

1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob.
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch.
c. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
c. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
(Not necessarily something we Floridians would know.)
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II?
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a . Strips of dried peanut butter.
b. Chocolate licorice bars.
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing.
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
c. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts.
b. Ask Mom.
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-Mo.

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940s and 1950s?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. 'I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey'
a.. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pony?
(Obviously more of a 60's question.)
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek.
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
c. Hiding under y our desk and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high.
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window.
c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure.

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord, & pass the _________?
a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song "Cab Driver" a hit?
a. The Mills Brothers
b.. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin

Answers at the end of the newsletter.

Got Some Time to Kill?
Hum along with these TV themes from the golden days.

My TV Themes

Florida Black Bear Rescuer
Betsy Radebaugh Knight rescues bears

Big Bend Wildlife Sanctuary started 2009's Wildlife Rehabilitation season off with a bang - two infant Florida Black Bear cubs. Their eyes weren't open yet, so we had to wait until they opened before we could tell exactly how old they were. The cubs arrived from near the Aucilla River where Forestry was doing a control burn. No one had seen any sign of bear until one of the Rangers looked down and saw these two helpless ones in the way of the fire, called in Florida Wildlife Commission, who, in turn, ferried them over to Big Bend Wildlife Sanctuary. Our veterinarian says they are healthy boys. The larger weighed 2 lbs. 5 oz. and the smaller one 2 lbs. even. We are watching them grow into hopefully big, healthy handsome boys. These are the 42nd and 43rd bears we have rehabilitated since 1985.

They will remain here at BBWS until some time in the late fall when they are large enough to return to their natural habitat.

So Betsy continues to provide her services as the only person in Florida who can rescue injured bears. She does this all on her own. She depends on donations for the funds to run the Big Bend Wildlife Sanctuary.
In addition to raising the bears, she gives educational demonstrations some of which include her birds of prey, eagles, owls, etc. She will be providing a demonstration and talk at the Forgotten Black Bear Festival this October 17th in Carrabelle, Florida. This free educational event promotes the peaceful co-existence with FLorida's largest land mammal, the Black Bear. This link will give you more information on the Black Bear Festival. There are also other pictures of the cubs. Forgotten Coast Black Bear Festival

Another link of interest provides a video of Betsy being interviewed for television. She gives many interesting stories including how she got started in the wildlife rehabilitation service. The program runs for appproximately 24 minutes. Click here for Forgotten Coast TV

In an earlier newletter we reported on some of Betsy's birds of prey which were also rescued. She travels frequently to deliver talks and provide educational experiences with her birds.

Photo Gallery

Stewart Harnell: the Ball Player.
Stewart Harnell catches a fly ball with style and grace.

HISTORY QUIZ ANSWERS
1. (b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. (b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing. Who had a steam iron?

3. (c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top.

4 . (a) Blackjack Gum.

5. (b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. (a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. (c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8. (a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. (a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.

10. (c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. (c) Polio. Beginning in August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. (b) Taxi. ("Better be ready by half-past eight")

13. (c) Macaroni.

14. (c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. (a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was also a puppet.

16. (a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. (b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18 (c) Ammunition.

19. (a) The widely famous 40's and 50's group: The Mills Brothers.

20. (a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.

SCORING
17- 20 correct: You are obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses.
12 -16 correct: Not quite (old as) dirt yet, but you're getting there.
0 -11 correct: You are not qualified to share the wisdom of your experiences.