SUN RECORDS SIGNS ELVIS PRESLEY TO A RECORDING CONTRACT- JULY 12, 1954
Sixty- three years ago today Sam Phillips [aka The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n Roll} signed a 19 year old Elvis Presley to a recording contract for Phillips record company- […]
Category Archives: American History
1972 WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP- BOBBY FISCHER VS BORIS SPASSKY BEGINS IN REYKJAVIK, ICELAND -JULY 11, 1972
45 years ago today in Reykjavik, Iceland the World Chess Championship between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky began. This was much much more than a chess […]
THE FIRST WAL-MART OPENS IN ROGERS, ARKANSAS- THIS DAY IN 1962
On this day in 1962 for good or ill- the first Wal-Mart opened in Rogers, Arkansas. The founder of Wal-Mart was Sam Walton. Walton died in 1992 at the […]
MY LIFE THROUGH MY T-SHIRT COLLECTION- AMERICA’S MOST WANTED
In the fall after 9-11 of course Usama Bin Laden the mastermind behind the attacks was the World’s Most Wanted Man- who would have thought it would have taken so […]
ELVIS PRESLEY’S LAST CONCERT IN INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA- THIS DAY 40 YEARS AGO
It wasn’t scheduled this way but it would turn out that June 26th, 1977 would be the final concert appearance of The King- Elvis Presley. He would be dead […]
MY LIFE THROUGH MY T-SHIRT COLLECTION- THE PRESIDENT AND THE KING
Back in the early 1990’s before I had met Mrs. Postcard- for 3 years I went on long long vacations in the summer. The longest was a month in 1992. […]
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