The Natick (MA) Mall is undergoing an ambitious expansion. This was the view of the project a couple of weeks ago, from the building where I work. It looks like they’re putting in a roller coaster, but it’s going to be a Neiman-Marcus. I’ll see if I can take a better picture from the roof, on a clear day.
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At the end of the 8th grade, a school friend of my son Eric recommended the 24-part Animé series Last Exile. Eric urged me and his mother to watch it with him, and we got hooked right away.
It became our “Last Exile Summer,” with Eric getting two of his cousins wrapped up in the show, as well. My wife and I particularly enjoyed the often humorous little teasers at the end of each episode. Here is one of them.
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Between 1962 and 1968 my family lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. Fortunately, those years coincided with the ascendency and supremecy of radio station WABC in New York. ABC disk jockeys Cousin Brucie and Dan Ingram inspired me to become a radio announcer. I had a short, but memorable, 2-year stint in the business.
Here begins a video series from 1990 on the history of New York Rock and Roll radio. Part one starts with the effect of TV in the 50’s on the radio business, and goes to the end of Alan Freed’s career, without specifically mentioning the payola scandal that ended it.
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