THURSDAY MARCH 21ST 2013

Happy 1st full day of Spring 2013 or "There's NO BUSINESS LIKE SNOW BUSINESS".  We have another few new cm.'s of snow and it's still coming down.  Well, it's not as bad as 1988 when it was cold and had a low of -22. In 1991 there was no snow but the Ice Out car was still on Kempenfelt Bay and gas at the pump  was at 47 cents.  There was some snow on the ground and gas was 50.2 cents per litre in 1994, and of course it was very spring-like last year at this time. GOING WAY BACK TO 1896 there was a big storm in Ontario with even the trains getting stranded in the snow. (A little before my time)

Here is an advertisement showing CP TRIPS to the Chicago World's Fair in 1896.






MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR

In 1666 Intendent Jean Talon counted 3,000 people in Canada's first Census. Of course, it wasn't Canada then.
200 years later in 1866 P.E.I. voted against Confederation, despite the fact that the Charlottetown Conference was held there in 1864 and in fact they didn't join till 1873 when it became our 7th Province (despite the fact it is Canada's 23rd Largest Island and it has about the same population as Barrie.
In 1891, An Inter-family marriage ended the infamous feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys in the U.S.  (after 150 family members had been Killed by that point). They were the Democrats and the Republicans back in the day.
In 1952, Alan Freed hosted the first ever Rock and Roll Concert called "the Moondog Coronation Ball" in Cleveland for a crowd of 10,000. 25,000 fans turned up and a lot of the older generation were not amused because all the artists were Black.  However they had another in 1986 in part because they wanted to attract the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which they did.

Speaking of Rock and Roll, Clarence Leo Fender died on this date in 1991.  He was the creator of the first solid-body ELECTRIC Guitar in 1948 which he called "The Broadcaster" which was changed in 1950 to the "Telecaster". In 1955 he created the "Stratocaster" which became the biggest selling guitar of all-time.  It had that special arm on it you could push and it would change the pitch of the guitar strings (WOW).  It was a good kind of "Fender Bender" (a good example to listen to might be "Walk Don't Run" by the Ventures.     



"Walk Don't Run" was on the charts twice, the first time in 1960 and then an updated version in 1964.

PEEPS WITH BIRTHDAYS TODAY...


Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent is 77, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685.  Here is a Pic of a T shirt for fans.  He fathered 20 Children in his lifetime. Timothy Dalton who was the last James Bond to Smoke (The Living Daylights in 1987) is 69 Today. You never hear too much about his TAKE on James Bond but I liked him a Lot!One can also see him occasionally on Masterpiece Theatre on PBS. Mathew Broderick is 51, Eddy Money was born 65 years ago and Rosie O'Donnell is 51. If it is your Birthday I hope it's a terrific day.


and finally....to get this Blog out faster, I have set my Laser Printer on STUN.

Mornin' everybody...mornin'