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Charlie and whitey, the Rooste
Circa 1939 Charlie arrived home on a lovely late Summer Friday afternoon. There was a gentle breeze and it was not too hot. He decided it wo...
Charlie DeMar Stories - Part 1
(ca 1937) When you come right down to it, sometimes a most ordinary man can be at the same time, a most remarkable man. The following stori...
Communicating In The 1940s
She awoke, startled, to an unfamiliar sound. The clock on the nightstand read 3:20. There was that sound again. Something was hitting agains...
Do You Want To Know What Makes
“Do you want to know what makes me laugh?” Jeanne Peck asked, wielding a sheet of paper. “This makes me laugh” and she proceeded to ...
Health care delivery in the ea
Any child in the New York City neighborhood in which I grew up would have had to be very sick indeed to have been taken to a Doctor’s offi...
Jenny, The Mister & the Christ
Ca 1925 – or so This is one of those well-worn, beloved family stories (all families have them) that is, with great relish, oft-repeated ...
Lament for a Rose-Colored Tren
The year: 1945 or so. The place: The Bronx, New York. A strange phenomenon was taking place. Throngs of otherwise quiet, well-behaved, obe...
A Little Girl Celebrates Chris
It was 7 AM Christmas morning. A light snow had fallen during the candlelight service the evening before — just enough to look like Christ...
Movie “Give-Away” Nights
During the Depression Years of the 1930’s ordinary working-class folks (no matter the color of the collar) had very little left in the bud...
Patsy, Tony and Marilyn’s Li
Among Charlie’s many and varied friends were Patsy and Tony, who owned a Bar and Grille down in Golden’s Bridge. At one point, for some ...
The Legend of Mitzi & the Copp
Ca. 1936 This is a story about a Boston Terrier named Mitzi. Actually, it had been intended that her name be “Misty” due to her grey br...
Please Don’t Mess With My Bi
…. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. I Corinthians, 13:13 As far back as memory...