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kikibalt wrote:

raylawpc wrote:

kikibalt wrote:Tom, you been alive as long as I been married....

1954 was a great year for us both!

Yes it was, you were born, I married Connie....

Holy cow Frank, did you marry a 10-year-old!?!? From the pictures you've posted, no way Connie looks old enough to have been married in 1954!

Now, you, on the other hand . . .

All kidding aside, what a blessing Connie has been for you and your family these past 54 years. Its clear from your e-mails that you and Connie are truly soul-mates.

kikibalt wrote:
George Hurrell gives Jean Harlow the glamorous treatment in 1933. "These are the most vivid records we possess of the Golden Age of Hollywood," co-curator Robert Dance says.

Jean Harlow was a great looking gal . . . but what was with those eyebrows??

[quote="raylawpc"]Holy cow Frank, did you marry a 10-year-old!?!? From the pictures you've posted, no way Connie looks old enough to have been married in 1954!

She wasn't old enough... , but I'm not going to tell you how old she was,...

Now, you, on the other hand . . .

I was...

All kidding aside, what a blessing Connie has been for you and your family these past 54 years. Its clear from your e-mails that you and Connie are truly soul-mates.

Yes, Connie and I have been truly soul-mates....

raylawpc wrote:

kikibalt wrote:
George Hurrell gives Jean Harlow the glamorous treatment in 1933. "These are the most vivid records we possess of the Golden Age of Hollywood," co-curator Robert Dance says.

Jean Harlow was a great looking gal . . . but what was with those eyebrows??

That was the style of the 1920's-30's

raylawpc wrote:Holy cow Frank, did you marry a 10-year-old!?!? From the pictures you've posted, no way Connie looks old enough to have been married in 1954!

Now, you, on the other hand . . .

All kidding aside, what a blessing Connie has been for you and your family these past 54 years. Its clear from your e-mails that you and Connie are truly soul-mates.

Tom,

Here is Connie pregnant with our first child, our daughter Linda, in 1956, Linda is now 52 years old....

Archie Moore and ?

kikibalt wrote:
Archie Moore and ?

Frank
The gentleman with Arch is Burks Huffman. The late owner and founder of Huffman's Bar B Q. on Imperial Avenue in South East San Diego. A landmark in the community

Thanks diego, I had the name but I lost it....

kikibalt wrote:

raylawpc wrote:

kikibalt wrote:
George Hurrell gives Jean Harlow the glamorous treatment in 1933. "These are the most vivid records we possess of the Golden Age of Hollywood," co-curator Robert Dance says.

Jean Harlow was a great looking gal . . . but what was with those eyebrows??

That was the style of the 1920's-30's

Oh, I know . . . but how anyone thought drawn-on eyebrows were attractive is beyond me.

Since everyone has told the world their birthdays,I was born April 6th,1947. Easter Sunday. I feel a weight on my shoulders

We should change this forum name to "Classic American Geezers Talking About Boxing and the Good Old Days."

I told a pretty young lawyer once that I was an old guy. The nice girl replied, "Oh, you're not old, you're just middle aged." "I'm middle aged only if people start living to 100," was my reply.

dagosd2000 wrote:Since everyone has told the world their birthdays,I was born April 6th,1947. Easter Sunday. I feel a weight on my shoulders

diego, like the rest of the guys, you're a young whipper-snapper.....

raylawpc wrote:We should change this forum name to "Classic American Geezers Talking About Boxing and the Good Old Days."

I told a pretty young lawyer once that I was an old guy. The nice girl replied, "Oh, you're not old, you're just middle aged." "I'm middle aged only if people start living to 100," was my reply.

Smile when you say "Geezers"....

Oh, I forgot about you Frank. Maybe, "Classic Americans Geezers (and one really old coot) Talking About Boxing and the Good Old Days."

raylawpc wrote:Oh, I forgot about you Frank. Maybe, "Classic Americans Geezers (and one really old coot) Talking About Boxing and the Good Old Days."

Ok, Tom, but you're closing in on me......

(l. to r). Johnny Addington, Bobby Bell and J.J. Marchesini)
August 12, 1958

kikibalt wrote:

Frank
That article is priceless. We can read so many things into Johnson. We can try to figure him out. Contrast him with other great black fighters. Analyze him politically and socially. Assess his knowlege . But even today,when everything is out there to be weighed,Jack Johnson doesn't get many mentions nor credit. As far as Black history goes in Boxing,Louis and Ali are the monuments. I don't think historians sell Johnson short on his accomplishments,but I've always felt because he married White women ,he will never be on the same playing field with Louis and Ali.

That's what i've always felt Racism is all about. A particular race (the men) protecting their womanhood from another race(of men). Louis had White women,we now know. Ali said he had a White woman once. It was OK for White men to have affairs or rape their slave women. But if a White man was to marry a Black woman,he was ostracized. During our history the result of a Black man marrying a White woman could result in a lynching.

I teach U.S History. Tomorrow I start again . The Founding Fathers all had slaves. The Constitution never addressed slavery because it would have infringed on the drafters of that documents financial and economic conditions. Money before equal rights.

I like watching Turner Classic Movies. It is often a "night light" for me. If the movie is old and in Black and White,I'll leave the TV on. But when they show,"Birth Of A Nation" and Robert Osbourne starts saying although Blacks are misrepresented,it was a great American Classic,I turn off the TV and go to bed.

Jack Johnson couldn't even keep his story straight in the same article. First he says that, in a clinch, he told Jeffries, "Don't love me so hard, Mr. Jeffries." To which Jeffries replied, "Oh, I'll love you all right."

Then, not seven paragraphs later, he claims he heard Jeffries utter "the only words I heard him say during the whole fight. . .'It's a hard old head, ain't it.'"

Q: How could you tell Jack Johnson was lying?

A: His lips were moving.