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Bored Out of My Gourd

Children never remember the logistics and difficulties of moving. They remember living in one place, and then another. I was no different. We were in Spirit Lake, then we were in Glenrose Prairie, an unincorporated area southeast of Spokane. For the parents it is quite different. "One move is worth two fires," according to Benjamin Franklin.

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Adams Spokane Glenrose childhood

Bored Out of My Gourd

Children never remember the logistics and difficulties of moving. They remember living in one place, and then another. I was no different. We were in Spirit Lake, then we were in Glenrose Prairie, an unincorporated area southeast of Spokane. For the parents it is quite different. "One move is worth two fires," according to Benjamin Franklin.

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Adams Spokane Glenrose childhood
  • Bonubos.

The Sex Life of Bonobos and Children

During our first year in Glenrose Prairie, a family moved next door, in the house to the west. The father was a greaser, with a ducktail and fins, and a pack of camels rolled up in his short shirtsleeve. His son Dickie was a carbon copy, sans the cigarettes. Dickie was my age, and had two teenage sisters, Sherry and Pernie.

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sex childhood Bruce Redding Curt Hanson Dickie Rowland
  • Bonubos.

The Sex Life of Bonobos and Children

During our first year in Glenrose Prairie, a family moved next door, in the house to the west. The father was a greaser, with a ducktail and fins, and a pack of camels rolled up in his short shirtsleeve. His son Dickie was a carbon copy, sans the cigarettes. Dickie was my age, and had two teenage sisters, Sherry and Pernie.

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childhood Glenrose sex Playboy

sex childhood Bruce Redding Curt Hanson Dickie Rowland
  • Jerry Mahoney.

Music, Art and Ventriloquism

Bruce Redding had access to a transistor radio, and we carried it everywhere, listening to KJRB, a local radio station. Dee-jays of the period played an eclectic mix of genre, including show tunes and movie themes, rock & roll, rhythm and blues, gunfighter ballads and country and western, folk music, nightclub crooners and occasional jazz. We liked Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, The Shirelles, The Crystals, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Bobby Blue Bland, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Marty Robbins, Acker Bilk, Mary Wells, Henry Mancini and on and on.  

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  • Jerry Mahoney.

Music, Art and Ventriloquism

Bruce Redding had access to a transistor radio, and we carried it everywhere, listening to KJRB, a local radio station. Dee-jays of the period played an eclectic mix of genre, including show tunes and movie themes, rock & roll, rhythm and blues, gunfighter ballads and country and western, folk music, nightclub crooners and occasional jazz. We liked Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, The Shirelles, The Crystals, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Bobby Blue Bland, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Marty Robbins, Acker Bilk, Mary Wells, Henry Mancini and on and on.  

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  • Vault of Horror comic, c.1950s

The Pieces I Left On The Floor

In every narrative there are some bits left out, sometimes to enhance dramatic effect, at other times because they just didn't seem to fit anywhere. Before I close out my early years I want to speak to those random bits and pieces. They happened in no certain order. Of course there were new experiences, like getting sick on green apples, picking scabs and other events common to all children. Smoking cigarettes at an early age and daydreaming were also activities that I engaged in.

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bits pieces childhood
  • Vault of Horror comic, c.1950s

The Pieces I Left On The Floor

In every narrative there are some bits left out, sometimes to enhance dramatic effect, at other times because they just didn't seem to fit anywhere. Before I close out my early years I want to speak to those random bits and pieces. They happened in no certain order. Of course there were new experiences, like getting sick on green apples, picking scabs and other events common to all children. Smoking cigarettes at an early age and daydreaming were also activities that I engaged in.

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fragments raw data MAD

bits pieces childhood
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