Where am I? or what you missed in the 50’s part 3
Yesterday’s post left some readers in a dust cloud of confusion. The election of 1948 was in 1948 and yes it took my parents and the state of Iowa 4 years to receive the news … things were a little slower in the 40’s …. Now for today’s blog…

We’re talking AM. No, I don’t mean the part of the day where you eat Cherrios. AM is a radio band and it was IT. The only sound on the radio were rebroadcast Cub games by Ronald Reagan and the latest hits on 78 rpm disc of Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. Why they let them over the boarder into the US only the FBI knows.

The huge advance for mankind was the development of the FM radio band, no more Royal Canadians. Now we could listen to Bob Cosby and the Bobcats…. Let’s fast forward a few years to Bill Haley and the Comets and the world has never been the same. Then some guy put rear speakers in cars, tape decks with 8 track carts … then along came the Doors, the Who, the Hollies and the Beatles - quick get a can of Raid. Then several years ago hear came the I-pods with ear plugs which blow the mind of only the listener, not the entire community.

Oh the joys of modern life. Tomorrow I’ll do the cooking and we’re talking Micro-waves.