DOOLEY Observed: 80 years next week

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."-- Thomas Jefferson

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." .... jbd

"When once a job you have begun, do no stop till it is done. Whether the task be great or small, do it well, or not at all." .... Anon

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Television is one daylong commercial interrupted periodically by inept attempts to fill the airspace in between them.

If you can't start a fire, perhaps your wood is wet ....

When you elect clowns, expect a circus ..............

Sunday, September 23, 2012

80 years next week

From: Ernest Moody
I want to wish you a happy 80th Joe. I am 6 months behind you. We've been friends for about 60 years now and hope for many more.

Wow, friends for 60 years. Went to school with Ernie when we were in the Navy and we became good friends, had some really good times with him. Then he went his way and I went mine. Thanks to the internet he got in touch with me, many years later, and we have been staying in touch since.

One week from today, September 30, I will be 80.

Some items of interest about 1932:

Hot dogs were a nickel!
Milk was 44 cents a gallon
A loaf of bread cost 6 cents
A gallon of gas costs 10 cents
A new car cost $500
The parking meter, Polaroid Glass camera, and Zippo Lighter were invented
The average family income was $1,500 a year
You could buy a mattress and box spring for $19.95
Ameilia Earhart just crossed the Atlantic on a solo flight!
The Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. baby was kidnapped!
Herbert Hoover was President, but Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in November by a landslide. He offered his “New Deal” that year!
The country was deep in the grips of the Great Depression with one quarter of the work force with no job
New York Yankees’ Lou Gehrig hit 4 straight home runs, tying the record and the team went on to win the 29th World Series against the Chicago Cubs
Rin Tin Tin died!
Buck Rogers was aired on CBS Radio
Gary Cooper’s A Farewell Arms was at the movies
Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon” was published
Born this year were Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Kennedy, Anthony Perkins, Johnny Cash, and former NYS Governor Mario Cuomo and Joseph Bradford Dooley
Radio City Music Hall in New York City opened!
First Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York
Atom was split for the first time