Happy New Year!

Here's wishing all of you a most Happy New Year! Thanks for making this blog a regular stop! A special thank-you goes out to all of the regular commenters and contributors that make things much more interesting and fun.

Below is the obligatory full-page ad celebrating the New Year that ran in the Journal on Dec. 31, 1963 – sixty years ago. 

The Journal also do a look-back over the events of 1963 in this two page spread.

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As usual, I'd like to say Happy Birthday to my older brother Ken, Lorain's First Baby of 1958. Here's the obligatory cute photo of him, circa 1959. I wonder if he still has the huge mouse toy (seen back on this post too)? Since Ken lives in Texas (where everything is bigger), I'll be the meeses mice down there are about as big as that toy.

By George, I think it's about time the Morning Journal dispatched a reporter down to Texas to do a follow-up story on Ken.