Reflections on music, movies, TV, sports, American History, and other stuff.

Music is fun and entertaining to most of us whether it is from our own memories of pop tunes recorded during our lifetimes or before. I l...

I remember as a kid in the 1950's how teenage girls had a style of wearing a dog collar around their ankle.  Apparently, when a girl wor...

K. T. Palmer  (1899-1976), and a fellow named Tom Darlington were the founders of Carefree, Arizona in the mid 1950’s. Real estate wasn...

When I graduated from college in 1969, I wasn’t sure what profession I should pursue.  I had spent a four year hitch in the Air Force durin...

  It was announced this week:   Pete Rose’s lifetime banishment from baseball in 1989 for betting on games while manager of the Cincinnati ...

JUST WONDERING……. Is it just me or does anyone else think Obama has his priorities mixed up?  ISIS is a serious threat to the U. S.  Th...

When I graduated from college in 1969 I felt pretty good.  I was still in my 20’s and I had served four years in the Air Force to get my mi...

30 CENT GAS? YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING! Unless you are a certain age, you probably don’t remember when buying a tank of gasoline for your ...

We hear “Only in Scottsdale” comments a lot from those suffering from “Scottsdale Envy.” If you read between the lines you know that what t...

This 30 second commercial from BMW is one of the best I have seen.  It's cute, different, and easily gets the point across in two words...

If there is anyone reading this who remembers “Five and Dime stores” please raise your hand.  That’s what I thought; not too many.  Don’t f...

( Left:  Me with a fave book: "Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime" by John Dunning) photo: 2006 From November, 2005: “Tha...

THE GHOST ARMY OF WORLD WAR II   By Jim McAllister Note:  I wrote this story originally on April 27, 2005 for the  NORTH SCOTTSDALE   ...

Some Miscellaneous Rambling….. Reader “Joy” was kind enough to inform me of a site where you can enter your birth date to find out wha...

Either you get it or you don’t get it.  Yesterday (4-16) at a McDonald’s restaurant in Tempe, Arizona there was a demonstration of the latt...

I remember the year 1957 very well.  I was a junior in high school and had the “hots” for a lot of girls who wouldn’t give me the time of d...