Good 38ยบ foggy morning.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! WOW, 2018.
Keeping it simple today as most everyone is busy. I watched the New Year's
festivities last night and today is the Rose Parade.
My Rose Parade memories....
After having marched in the Rose Parade with the LA Sheriff's
Boys Band back in 1961 playing the glockenspiel,
and marching the 5½ miles from Orange Grove to Colorado Blvd to Sierra
Madre Blvd behind the Sheriff's Mounted and walking through all that horse poo,
I then "worked" the parade as a Reserve Deputy for a number of years.
We had to be at the command post by 3am for instructions and then we took
our positions. Generally I was at the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado
(where the TV cameras were) and one year I escorted Sheriff Sherman Block to his
seat in the grandstand on Orange Grove. Another year a bunch of demonstrators
sat down in front of the Rose Queen's float and we had to "escort" them off the
route behind the stands for questioning. My nephew was watching the parade on TV
from Lake Tahoe and called my sister screaming, "Aunt Sue is on the TV!!!".
Another year I worked on Sierra Madre keeping an intersection clear for
emergency vehicles. A man who seemed to be 12' tall put his chair down in the
wrong place. I, in my nicest way, told him he can't sit there. He stood up, my
face was opposite his belt buckle (TALL MAN!) and he was acting irritated. I
kept talking to him and he seemed to relax and back up. I thought I was really
doing good! Then, I glanced over my shoulder and there was a Sgt and 4
deputies!! LOL. Yep, backup is the BEST! Anyway, good memories of the
parade!
Today is my neighbor
Frank's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK!!!
Love this...taking
Lucy for a ride on the quad taking' the trash can to the road!
I really
am Blessed to have such great neighbors!!!!!
Historically this
date...
1890 – The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is first
held.
1902 – The first American college
football bowl
game, the Rose
Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
1908 – For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York
City's Times
Square to signify the start of the New
Year at midnight.
1934 – Alcatraz
Island becomes a United
States federal prison.
1962 – United
States Navy SEALs established.
1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
And births this date
include....
1735 – Paul
Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
1752 – Betsy
Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
1895 – J. Edgar
Hoover, American FBI director (d.
1972)
1930 – Ty
Hardin, American film actor (d.2017)
"Love to eat them mousies.
Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off, nibble on they tiny
feet."
All I know. Nuff said. Happy New Year. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
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