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Oct 7 •
Motto (What’s Your Local History?)
What’s Your Local history? Seriously, we are interested? @Mark Osborne sent us Frank Sinatra’s song about Chicago, which is excellent and I never heard! My YouTube Motto “That’s Local History to me, what’s your local history?” was said that way to get other people involved purposely! My wife, Sherry, helped me in my 3 previous “unsuccessful” channels, but I learned I could talk in public, without notes (in my pocket), and in my real voice (not really amped up at all). I have never made a CENT in YouTube or Shool, but I enjoy hearing your thoughts, and have 176 subscribers still on my channel, which includes many shorts as well, literally driving over bridges! I was encouraged to make videos about “dying malls” but I never did it! My 1st Video on Local History with Mike was a history/actual personal tour of the Cherry Hill Mall. I was there with my wife helping me film that day in 2025. Ty Myers asked me himself if I was worried about incidental people being recognized. I said “no” because I did my best to make them unreasonable to the public. I am the “lead” character/real person.
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“American Pie” Americana Song (Greatest?)
Is Don Mclean’s song the Greatest Ever? What is your favorite part? Buddy Holly (That’ll be the Day that I Die), Jimmy Valens (La Bamba), and the Big Bopper were killed in a Small plane crash sadly. My favorite part is “And the 3 men I admired the most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. They took the last train for the Coast, the day the music died”. As I like religious references. @Mark Osborne is a music expert know much than I about the song itself. It does reference Nuclear War however, “the birds falling fast”, we were still facing the Soviets at those times.
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Do You Bet? (Atlantic City history = Americana? )
Did Casinos in Atlantic City set the stage for online gambling? My most popular video on the Delairbridge connecting Philadelphia to Atlantic City shows what an attraction the Jersey boardwalk and Casinos are by the shore! In New Jersey and perhaps the United States, you can bet on Sports, politics (finally), not just Atlantic City and Las Vegas Casinos. My Great grandfather was a bookie in the 1920, 30s, and 40s and he made enough money, as “the house” with numbers it was said to me to buy my grandparents a 5 and 10 store in Philadelphia. I am not condoning it, being I’m sure it was illegal. However, today these betting markets are all legal, not just State lotteries! Be careful. Your Thoughts on betting.
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Thanksgiving (No Candy or Gifts, Unique)!
What is your Thanksgiving tradition? Almost EVERYONE celebrates it REGARDLESS of faith or candy or gifts with our extended families! So much, It’s the busiest travel time I believe. Has Thanksgiving been overtaken by Halloween at this point with the added Trunk-or-Treats and TV themes? Is Christmas, the oldest, has gifts, Christmas Trees, and Santa Claus. Some of the Gospels speak of the Nativity scene, 3 Wise Men, and the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem? Your thoughts and thank You as well.
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FAA Grounds U.S. Flights (Not 9/11 but FAILURE)
Do you remember on 9/11 when flights were all grounded? 22 Aircraft locations, big city ones, across the U.S. were “unable” to communicate effectively. How fragile is the telecommunications of America’s Air Traffic control’s RADAR, Routers, and communications, radio frequencies messed up? It’s bizarre! How fragile is America? Americans demand safety obviously but was this simply old equipment and negligence? We live in the MOST powerful by far and largest ECONOMY in the world! Incompetence? Possibly. I tend to believe the simplest answer given the least number of assumptions is correct ( Occam’s Razor). Do you believe we should “hurry up” and fly tonight or do our due diligence first?
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