I've talked to a number of people over the years who attended a Pilots game or two at Sicks Stadium. And more than a few said the one thing even less major league than that team was the ballpark itself. www.ballparks.com
Occasionally I'm asked if I have any all-time favorite Slice items. Sure, I do. Plenty. Here's one from almost 20 years ago. A Spokane mother told about how she had fallen into a predictable pattern when communicating with a friend in another city. It seemed…
Welcome to what just might be the most stupefyingly shallow survey ever. But hey, you live here long enough and you start to form opinions about everything. So here, counting down to No. 1, are my picks for the Top 5 makes of cars driven…
"A pleasure to each other." I'm surprised they would say that in 1956. www.vintage123.com
One summer when I was junior high-age, part of that season's entertainment involved hearing my friend Dave Taylor recount the running battle of wits between his year-older brother, Steve, and their father. It all started when Steve began accessing his parents' well-stocked liquor cabinet. (This…
Before moving to Spokane in the late '80s, I spent decades scoffing at others' self-assessed Cold War risk rankings. Having spent a fair share of my childhood reading comic books and trading baseball cards just a few miles away from row after row of B-52s…
A lot of people who claim that their cat is a Maine Coon are either high or living in a candy-colored dream world. But here's one. www.fogcitycat.com
So it turns out Idaho and Iowa are actually different states. A North Idaho friend, Lauren Hopkins, was back East visiting friends. One of them asked: "So what's there to do in Des Moines?" She held up a silver necklace featuring a little piece in…
...if this is what life was like in other people's homes? www.cheesyflix.com www.sylvialewis.net www.sitcomsonline.com www.image-entertainment.com
"Just wondering," wrote Robin Bayley of Chattaroy. "What percentage of Slice readers get a little tired of all the marmot stories/conversations, etc.?" The answer is 27 percent of readers and 49 percent of marmots. www.jwilson.coe.uga.edu
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Though perhaps it's really more correct to say no one truly won that competition. I once met Wink Martindale, but that's unrelated to this. www.canadiandesignresource.ca
Wouldn't it be fun to take a look at a bunch of newspaper headlines as depicted in Silver Age comic books? I thought I had come upon an original idea for online inquiry here. But it turns out others had beat me to it. Well,…
With the Barclays Premier League season about to start, I'm sure you're wondering how I think it will shake out in English football's top division this season. So here are my picks. 1. Chelsea. 2. Man U. 3. Man City. 4 Tottenham. 5. Arsenal. 6.…
"First and last time was many, many years ago," wrote longtime Slice contributor Barbara Keene. She thought the kids were asleep upstairs in their cabin. Though as this story has been told over and over through the years, that now seems in doubt. "My husband…
www.providencedailydose.com
If you don't count a couple of angry letters to the editor written as a teenager in Vermont, I started my journalism career at an Arizona newspaper called the Daily Sun. Despite the name, it came out in the afternoon. At least it did then.…
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...it would be impossible to consider buying an RV without thinking about 1985's "Lost in America." www.cockeyedcaravan.blogspot.com
www.seattleairlineshow.com
If you do not recognize this, there's a good chance this isn't the blog for you. www.audioroundtable.com
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Looks like six-packs for everyone. Won't be long before confessions, revelations, recriminations and tears all around. "Oh, Bob. How could you!" "I'm sorry. The passion was fire-brewed." www.vintagecatalog.net
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