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Car Stories
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. The Mellow Yellow Plymouth Convertible. The Mercedes Convertible Saga. Etc Etc. Etc. Featured in This Blog:. April 4, 2014. 8220;Please won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? Thank you Janis Joplin. Actually, Geoff Nate has a long and challenging history with the automobile dating back to his misadventures with the family Buick, (see Blog 12). Or in the Cigar Company’s van (see Blog 10). BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Be our guests and share w...
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The "Goodnight Johnny"
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. The “Goodnight Johnny”. Featured in this Blog. May 16, 2014. Just squeeze the little “Gizmo”. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Do you remember the days when family stability hinged on such mundane little tasks as turning off a TV set? Would you believe that Geoff Nate’s wife, Elayne, deserves credit for her important contribution to the preservation of peace and harmony in the American family of the late nineteen seventies and eighties?
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The Black Box
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. 8220;The Black Box” (How Hollywood’s Movies Wired America). Featured in this Blog:. July 3, 2014. 8220; BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. We should have titled Blog 15 Confessions of a Chronic Entrepreneur . Nobody wanted anything we were selling back in the early 1970s. Cable television was in its infancy, but Pay TV. We just couldn’t resist the challenge. 8220;The Black Box (How Hollywood’s Movies Wired America)”… [open].
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The State Fair
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Featured in this Blog:. August 29, 2014. The late 1940s and early 1950s, following the end of World War II, were blossoming years for the American college boy. This Blog, Number 16, chronicles several of Geoff Nate’s adventures as he grapples with the challenges of early manhood and the prospect of being called to serve his country in yet another war. (Music courtesy of Scott Joplin). BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. A Cable Merger Too Far.
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Grandpa's First "Trip"
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Grandpa’s First “Trip”. Etc Etc. Etc. Grandpa's First Trip. Featured in this Blog:. December 30, 2014. Thank you Peter, Paul and Mary. Though Geoff Nate never really puffed that magic dragon. He was done in at a ripe old age by an innocent chocolate cookie. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Grandpa’s First Trip. Trip,” was a “high”. To remember. [Open]. 8220;Grass: History of Marijuana”. ETC ETC. ETC. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Bob Karp
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Etc Etc. Etc. Featured in this Blog:. March 13, 2015. Karp meets trout… New Zealand… 2002. It turned out to be a package deal. Dr. Robert Karp, son of a studio mogul, was anything but Hollywood. When he married my wife’s best friend, our bond was immediate. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Few people have visited. ETC ETC. ETC. Dr Robert Karp’s Very Impressive Bio and Obit…. University of Chicago Press Release- May 26, 2006 [Open]. Access t...
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Geoff Nate's Tales of the South Pacific
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Chapter 1: Melanesia 1984. Chapter 2: Indonesia 1987. Chapter 3: Miracle in the Caribbean. Geoff Nate's Tales of the South Pacific. Featured in this Blog:. July 8, 2015. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Chapter 1: “Melanesia 1984″…. It was just the two of us, face-to-face, the beast and this blogger, with no place to hide. There’s a backstory here and fortunately this diver survived to tell the tale. [Open]. Readers are invited to comment o...
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Harry
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. 8220;The Early Years”. 8220;The Wives Pull the Plug”. 8220;Retirement’s for Old People.”. 8220;Harry’s Waterloo”. Etc Etc. Etc. 8220;Harry and Belle’s First Swim”. 8220;Those Were the Days”. Featured in this Blog:. August 14, 2015. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Chapter 1: “The Early Years”…. Meet Harry Nagin and share his remarkable rags to retirement story. [Open]. Chapter 2: “The Wives Pull the Plug”…. ETC ETC. ETC. Readers are invited...
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Rent-A-Wreck
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Chapter 1: “Wreck-O-Nomics”. Chapter 2: “Wall Street Calls”. Featured in this Blog. March 15, 2016. The year was 1977. We were between gigs and looking for excitement, which usually harbingered another risky business adventure. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. Chapter 1: “Wreck-O-Nomics”…. We take a crack at selling the American family on the idea of renting a used car. Chapter 2: “Wall Street Calls”…. Rent-A-Wreck goes public. [Open].
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Bygone Radio Days
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Etc Etc. Etc. Featured in this Blog:. Winters were long and cold in Minneapolis back in the 1930s; I’m sure they still are. The walk home from school around the lake was certainly a challenge for a 10-year-old boy. Fortunately the family’s big radio console was waiting for me in the living room where my favorite action heroes were there to challenge my imagination with the turn of a knob. BITS AND PIECES OF AN ORDINARY LIFE. ETC ETC. ETC.
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Radio Days
Featured in this Blog:. Bits and Pieces of an Ordinary Life. Seldom Seen Historical Photos. Featured in This Blog:. November 22, 2013. 8220;Bites and Pieces of an Ordinary Life”. 8220;Radio Days”…. Continues to test the resilience of two never-say-quit young would-be entrepreneurs; this time in the challenging media world of FM Radio and magazine publishing. Each feature can be accessed by selecting the (OPEN) option following the previews below. The acronym for K. 8220;Begged and Borrowed”.
