Download or read book A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland NY written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town of Guilderland, NY has a long, rich history dating even before its incorporation in 1803. This well documented. For the baby boomer generation however, the town holds a different history, not covered in any textbook. We did not consider it history at the time because we were living in it. Places we lived, loved, learned, worked and played, taken for granted, as though nothing would ever change. Those days from the 1950's to 1980's, were times of great change, not only in the culture of America, but also as reflected in the town. If photos are scarce, memories, stories and anecdotes remain. The photos and stories in this book, have been gathered from many sources. Photos may fade but memories remain intact - for the most part. Please enjoy the walk...
Download or read book A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland written by John F. Green and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases, tickets torn if half, memories of times and places...The town of Guilderland, NY has a long, rich history dating even before its incorporation in 1803. This well documented. For the baby boomer generation however, the town holds a different history, not covered in any textbook. We did not consider it history at the time because we were living in it. Places we lived, loved, learned, worked and played, taken for granted, as though nothing would ever change. Those days from the 1950's to 1980's, were times of great change, not only in the culture of America, but also as reflected in the town. The town of Guilderland, a mostly rural suburb coupled with the hamlet of Guilderland Center and the village of Altamont, nestled quietly between Albany and Schenectady. McKownville, Westmere, and the eastern part of the hamlet of Guilderland proper, closest to Albany saw the first rise in housing developments. The Fort Hunter area because of its proximity to Rotterdam and Schenectady was similar. Altamont was, and still is, a self-contained village. The town was just beginning to move into full suburban mode. Crowing roosters, farmer's fields, roadside stands, empty fields, streams and woods soon replaced by ice cream shops, diners, bowling alleys, bars, burger joints, housing developments and schools. To coin a phrase, it might have been be called - "Burbrural."Like much of history, it didn't last long. Pictorial evidence is scarce. What little there is resides in old photo albums or shoeboxes. And in this book. The day of digital images from cameras, phones or tablets was decades away. Who gave any thought to snapping a photo of Carvel, Frosty, The Penguin or Dutcher's ice cream? We ate, drank and caroused at Fonda's, Hopper's, Tommy Polito's, Dell's, The Late 'n' Lazy or the Village Drummer. Take photos? - no way. Friends or relatives might stay at the Country Squire Motel, Bailey's Cabins, The Tom Sawyer Motor Inn, the Governors Motor Inn or the M&M Motel. A quick bite to eat was often at the Bumble Bee, Will Roy, Mike's Diner or Walt's Subs. Finer, more expensive fare found at The Altamont Manor, The Bavarian Chalet, The Shadow Box, Howard Johnson or Harry's Beef Bottle and Beer. Lazy summer days were whiled away at McKown's Grove, Tawasentha Park or French's Hollow. We saved money to go to the Altamont Fair in August. We bought our groceries at Spinosa's, Gruelichs, Star Market or the A&P. We filled our tanks and got our oil checked at Joe's Service Station, O'Hanlon's or P.L. Turnpike Yattaw Esso. Other needs satisfied by Robert Hall, Western Auto, Robinson & Hennett Hardware, Ted & Marions Sporting Goods, Candy Kraft or Master Cleaners. **It was the place that we lived, learned, loved, worked and played. And not always in that order. Our parents, part of the "greatest generation," were as varied in their occupations as our grandparents - laborers, farmers, business people, clerks, teachers, house wives, or professionals. Some of us were poor. Some of us were wealthy. Most of us were some place in between.
Download or read book A BABY BOOMERS HISTORY OF GUILDERLAND PART II written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the requested sequel to the well-received original volume: ""A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland"" published in 2017. New stories and new photographs. In contrast to the first book, this one focuses more on personal memories than geography and landmarks. The first volume had 34 contributors of stories and graphics. The one has over 60! Places we lived, loved, learned, worked and played, taken for granted, as though nothing would ever change. Those days from the 1950's to 1980's, were times of great change, not only in the culture of America, but also as reflected in the town. Like much of history, it didn't last long. In addition, it has a lengthy chapter about The Guilderland Players at Guilderland Central High School.
Download or read book A BABY BOOMERS HISTORY OF GUILDERLAND PART III written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the last sequel to the well-received books, A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland, and A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland Part II published in 2017 and early 2018. Unlike the first two volumes, this isnÕt organized by sections of town because much of that was covered previously. People who contributed stories, anecdotes and photos (see appendix) are in individual sub-chapters. I have found or been given much new material covering the way it was, the way it is now, the way we were and where we are now.
Download or read book THE COMPLETE TOMMY POLITO S TAVERN written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a town the way it was and never will be again. It was a tavern, like thousands of others, across America that shaped many a memory and many a life. It is also the story of a man, long gone but never forgotten. CONTENTS -INTRODUCTION - PHOTO GALLERY -HISTORY - Fonda's, Giovanni's, Johnny Polito, obituaries, articles, tributes, poems, songs and more.PONDERING POLITO'S - Stories, anecdotes and memories garnered from people who were there! TOMMY POLITO'S TAVERN - A NOVELLA The complete version originally published in 2016 -APPENDIX - NOTE: Parts of this book originally published in ""Tommy Polito's Tavern"" and ""A Baby Boomers History of Guilderland, NY"" - Volumes One and Two.
Download or read book Baby Boomers written by University Press and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University Press returns with another short and captivating book - a brief history of the Baby Boomers. After World War II, birth rates in the western world increased dramatically and a remarkable baby boom was born. In 1946, the United States had a population of 146 million. In a span of less than 20 years - from 1946 to 1964 - Americans had 76 million babies. Those babies are the Baby Boomers and their generation has changed the world. American Baby Boomers had a unique experience in a nation that was simultaneously becoming a superpower and finding its own identity. Coming of age during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s, Baby Boomers witnessed the same historical events, grappled with many of the same cultural forces, and, today, experience similar challenges. This short book provides an abbreviated account of the dazzling and devastating events, forces, triumphs, and setbacks that have shaped the Baby Boomer generation - a version that you can read in about an hour.
Download or read book Memories of Baby Boomers written by Debbie Anne Dashner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I was preparing this work, I asked some young adults (early 20s of today) what they know about the baby boomers. One reply was, You had morals. Today, people dont. Another reply was, My grandmother is one, and she worries a lot. Then he qualified his statement with this idea, No, she really takes good care of us. Thus, he was implying that the baby boomers are very humanitarian. Naturally, each of these statements is a value judgment and is open to opinion, and everyone knows that every generation has good and bad people. However, I would qualify the statement that the first young man said with this idea: I do believe that the baby boom generation has been a generation of traditional values in a very special way that no others in modern times seem to have been. Another way to say that is to say that baby boomers followed their parents values in a way that no other generation of modern times has done.
Download or read book The Way We Were written by Michael Kastre and published by Saint Michael's Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Baby Boomers
Download or read book Baseball FUNdamentals written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he was a kid, Ray loved baseball and like most young boys, dreamed of making it to the major leagues. The only drawback was that he sucked at it. Billionaire Raymond Farnsworth and his new Franchise, The Las Vegas Lightning's turn the professional baseball world on its ear as they return to what they call ?Baseball FUNdamentals? ? They mix old-time nostalgia and values, crazy hijinx, pranks, public relations stunts, Las Vegas style entertainment, and make a fortune while doing it. In addition to the main story, this includes photos and a brief history of some of the famous players mentioned in it. Plus excerpts about youth baseball from the author's book: Everything I Needed to Know about Life, I Learned on a Baseball field (well, almost) Also included are film synopsis? of some of the baseball films noted in the story
Download or read book The Other Town Too Tough to Die written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOUGH MEANS MORE than an eighteen minute gunfight at the O. K. Corral. - Tombstone - move over. Endurance, hard work, perseverance, determination and survival define that word in Ash Fork. Good times have been followed by downright hard times but the people have carried on... A concise history from the 1800's to the present. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION EARLY HISTORY THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD THE RAILROADS THE ESCALANTE THE RANCHERS THE MOTHER ROAD - ROUTE 66 THE TOWN TODAY - TOUGH AS EVER NEW RESIDENTS & OFF-GRID LIVING
Download or read book SHORTS BRIEFS written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MALBIHN - Hired to seek out a fortune and a myth, a ruthless man finds more than he bargained for in the Arizona wilderness. THE TAVERN - They say you can never go back and maybe you shouldnÕt. Jonathan Moran finds a portal to the past and maybe a date with destiny. THE LITTLEST SNOWMAN ON RT 66 - A girl has a hard time adjusting to a family move until she accidentally applies a little magic and finds a true friend and... STOWAWAY SUZI - A widower raising his 12 year old son gets a big surprise when he returns to their ranch. ALIEN HEREDITY - An alien world goes into chaos for reasons beyond understanding or control. AND THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT - A cosmic error is rectified on an infinitesimal planet in a tiny solar system on the fringe of a small galaxy. Some call it Earth. SERGEANT BACHMAN - When traditional methods fail, a man searching for information about the father he never knew turns to other means and embarks on a fascinating but frightening journey.
Download or read book Stowaway Suzi written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply flawed man finds his greatest love in the remote hills of Northern Arizona. Together, they face mortal dangers and struggle to survive as they watch the world they know fall into red ruin. Much later, he must decide if he can accept another type of love as a culture in a different form evolves. Two centuries later his descendant finds an unlikely love amidst enemies who have come to destroy the fragile society that remains. An apocalyptic story laced with love, and deep friendships often crossing cultural and racial lines. Adventure, action and touch of mysticism, round out a sweeping epic.
Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by John Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Barthold is a deeply flawed man haunted by the mysterious Arahm Tuit. He travels from upstate New York to the hills of Ash Fork, Arizona where he hopes to start a new life but instead finds love, danger and watches the world come tumbling down in red ruin, little knowing he has an important part to play in the future of human kind. Although this is an apocalyptic story, you will find NO zombies, alien invaders, government conspiracies, universal plagues or any other such nonsense. It addresses what is a more imminent threat to humankind. Further, it is told from a very limited point of view as experienced by the principal character, Adam Barthold. Unlike some such story lines, the book focuses more on the characters, their flaws, fortitude and family-like relationships. It is both a love story and a story of deep friendships often crossing over racial, age and cultural boundaries. The action scenes are not stereotype Hollywood-hyped depictions either.
Download or read book Reflections of a Baby Boomer written by Janice Hiatt Steil and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventy-six million Americans born between 1946 and 1965 have reshaped America with their style, their tastes and, above all, by their sheer numbers. The Boomers are passing through American history, outnumbering the previous generation by a staggering 28 million. This book is a refreshing reminder of what we considered the simpler, quieter times of the fifties, surviving the turbulent sixties and further impressions of a baby boomer growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hopefully, it will take you on a trip down memory lane. Times have changed so much from the fifties, some for the good, some for the bad, but life does go on and we as "baby boomers" will survive.
Download or read book The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia written by Martin Gitlin and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history. Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture. The members of this generation experienced some of the most tumultuous times in American history; indeed, the Boomers helped create these pivotal eras. From the advent of rock and roll to disco and rap, from the sexual revolution to the arrival of AIDS, and from race riots to the election of a black president, Baby Boomers have seen it all. Through nearly 100 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia gives later generations insight into the contributions of the Baby Boomers, and it helps members of that generation better contextualize their own experiences. Included entries are written in a clear and engaging manner, covering politics and activism, entertainment, the economy, gender roles, arts, pop culture, sports, religion, drug and alcohol use, and many other subject areas.
Download or read book Boomers How We Changed the World written by Richard A. Jordan and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boomers How We Changed the World vol.1 1946-1980: A Generational Biography: Baby Boomers; Those Born From 1946-1964. Volume 1 - Snapshots & Timeline 1946-1980. A Brief History. Timeline of events portrayed like looking through a photo album of the past. There are many quick moments of time captured that create a desire for more information and understanding. How did the United States and its citizens get to where we are in 2010? Read for fun and use for high school or college course material. Those born from 1946-1964, this book is about YOU. Volume 1: The years from 1946 through 1980. You lived it. You suffered through it. You enjoyed it, but does anyone really understand what we went through? Do you know that while the “Easy Bake Oven” was the hottest toy for the Christmas season of 1963: In China the Great Leap Forward was responsible for over 31 million deaths due to starvation and famine which remained mostly unknown to the western world.The University of Alabama desegregated only after Governor George Wallace stepped aside when confronted by federally deployed National Guard troops.Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated June 12. Martin Luther King's “I Have A Dream,” speech, August 28. South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. November 2. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas November 22. Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, November 24, on live TV. This all took place the summer & fall of 1963! Did you even remember that all of this was going on while you were in front of the TV watching “Petticoat Junction” or “The Fugitive”? Controversial. Thought-provoking. Creates interest and discussion. Area Highlights Briefly covered, year by year, in a “snapshot” Generational Biography timeline: Oil History, Major News, Civil Rights Movement, Women's Movement, Gay Rights, Popular Culture, Business, Technology, Finance, Banking, Books, TV, Radio, Sports, Music, Natural Disasters, Man vs. Man, War, Cost of Living, Auto prices, Food prices, Wages, Unemployment, Movies, Broadway, Federal Debt, CPI, GDP, Diversity, Government spending, Social Security, Oil prices, Gold prices, Silver prices, House, Senate, President, Yen, Dollar, Yuan, Rial. BOOMERS. What was the World like that you inherited? And “How We Changed The World”. There are over 80 million Boomers in the U.S. If you look through the data it is obvious how the citizens of the United States of America (YOU) fought for honor, decency, high moral values and against all of the warnings we started to slide ever so slowly down that path to where we are today. What so many of us do not remember is how long and hard we fought. This book will mean something different to every person who reads it because we are all different with a common ground. Our intention is to take you back in time and allow you to feel exactly what it was like. This book is a powerful academic resource that can be used on many different levels. Above all it is down-to-earth and extremely interesting to just sit and read.
Download or read book Memories of a Baby Boomer from Mansfield written by John S Adamescu and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a book for baby boomers especially since it follows the authors life from 1949 (his birth) to 1961 when he was 12 years old. It starts withs a biography of his families beginning with one sides immigration from Romania in 1912 to the other sides start on a farm in Mansfield Ohio. It gives many different instances of his association and interactions with parents, friends, teachers, locations actions that will give the reader (especially the baby boomers) a look inside the life of a child born in the baby boomer age. His friend are mentioned and given life throughout the book. I am currently 74 years old am retired and married for 44 years to my wife Gayle, whom I adore. I have 4 children Steve, Chris, Phil and Lizzy. I enjoy working on my 100 year old house, my classic car, a fine cigar on summer afternoons, traveling to New York, Chicago, across the USA, and Europe. But I most enjoy getting together with my family and my first grandchild, Nico!
