{"id":272,"date":"2017-05-05T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic-photoblog.bobleafe.com\/?page_id=272"},"modified":"2021-07-01T17:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T21:53:02","slug":"1962-analog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"1962 – The Paperboy Goes To D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

As a paperboy for North Jersey’s The Record newspaper back in the early 60s, I sold a lot of subscriptions, which won me some prizes and trips, including ones to see the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia and the New York Rangers in NYC at the old Madison Square Garden, which used to be on 8th Ave between 49th and 50th streets.<\/span><\/h4>\n

But in 1962, I won the biggie (along with about 40 other carriers): a bus trip to Washington, DC, to see all the sights over a two-day period:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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My mother brought me to The Record to catch the bus and – OF COURSE – had to take some pictures, but I didn’t mind. It was a happy occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

She took this picture near the Record delivery truck bays. I’m 4th from the right in the light jacket\/white socks and cool loafers, smiling and giving her a number 1 salute (at least I hope that’s what I was doing):<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the letter noted, we stayed at The Virginia Lodge – just across the Potomac in Alexandria, VA – and visited all the major monuments, plus the Treasury and the White House. We didn’t get in the WH – maybe JFK wasn’t home that day – but there’s a picture of me below, standing in front of the White House fence, wearing my Record Honor Carrier sweater.<\/span><\/h4>\n

One very odd thing that I recall about the motel: I had brought a portable radio and everyone in the room was happy that it could pick up our beloved WABC-AM in New York……………..but it did so only when the bathroom door was open! If anyone needed to take a shower, a shave, or a sh………………ampoo, the tunes ceased until he came out. Weird.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I also recall being at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for the Changing of the Guard. We also went to the nearby Iwo Jima Memorial, which I don’t recall, but I found the below picture amongst my other pix from that trip, so I guess I was there.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Obviously, I didn’t take the next picture, but I did take the three after that (recently).<\/span><\/h4>\n

Me at the White House wearing my Honor Carrier sweater:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The Honor Carrier sweater survived!<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Another Honor Carrier goodie that I saved………..looks almost brand-new:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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My mother saved my carrier bag. I recently filled it with newspapers, but the front-page pictures were in color – something that didn’t exist in 1962 – so I made it a black & white.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The Record did a story about the trip the day after we left:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a great first trip without my parents, which means that most of the subsequent ones WITH them were not so great, but I guess that’s what happens when you get a little taste of freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

After 1962, I imagine that I got involved with teenage stuff, high school, college and work and didn\u2019t really<\/em> begin to start documenting anything until I finally found some photographic footing in the 70s.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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A few years after making this post, I found this rolled-up and cracked image from that trip amongst my parents’ possessions in 2021. I don’t recall being at the Capitol, so I don’t recall having our picture taken. And I’m wearing the old Honor Carrier sweater:<\/span><\/p>\n

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