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The Slice: You’ll ruin your eyes, or not
My wife made that observation. She notices things like that because she is older than I am by several weeks.
It hasn’t always stood still: “Your blip about the airplanes (March 24) flashed a memory,” wrote Donna Potter Phillips. “Many area residents go in and out of Fairchild AFB and see that huge B-52 parked there on display. I love to share the story that that aircraft was my Dad’s airplane! He was AC, aircraft commander, of that very plane as verified by its serial number and the multiple entries in his flight log which we have. Love to take my grandsons out to see their great-grandfather’s big black bomber, now parked in memory and reality.”
Today’s home finds: Got a note from retired colleague Bert Caldwell.
“When we remodeled our kitchen in 2010, we found S-R pages from 1963 stuffed around the windows, the only two that had been replaced since the house was built in 1926. I don’t remember much about the news content, just the fashion sketches that were once THE way to announce the new styles – in glorious black and white.”
And here’s one from Slice reader Rick Koterba.
“A few years ago, while helping my brother start to remodel his basement, we tore down the existing walls and found some interesting things. With wrecking bar in hand we found quite a few old soda cans, and then hit the jackpot – another wrecking bar hidden in the walls. Needless to say, it sped up the work.”
Longest duration for the same hairstyle: Arthur Dendy has had his close-cropped military haircut since he joined his high school ROTC unit in Phoenix in 1943.
“Scottsdale was just a gas station then,” he said.
But getting back to his coiffure consistency. “I can’t take feeling hair on the back of my neck,” he said.
Though he admits he doesn’t have much hair left these days.
Arthur and his wife visited Expo ’74 and quickly decided Spokane was where they wanted to be. So they moved here.
Today’s Slice question: What did in your hearing?
A) Noise from aircraft engines. B) Years of listening to loud music. C) Aging. D) Getting cuffed upside the head. E) Industrial noise. F) What? G) Other.
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