Glen Campbell -- Maybe It's His Galveston Story
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THERE'S GOT TO BE MORE TO HIS "GALVESTON" THAN THAT GLEN CAMPBELL SINGS IT.
If you know singer Glen Campbell's real relationship with the Galveston Island, you can't help but wonder if there isn't more to the story than that a songwriter named J...
If you know singer Glen Campbell's real relationship with the Galveston Island, you can't help but wonder if there isn't more to the story than that a songwriter named J...
Moody Foundation's E. Douglas McLeod, Attorney
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Doug McLeod and an Eleven-Year Old Who Later Became His Wife
By Bill Cherry
To want to talk about being a teenage boy growing up in Galveston in the ‘50s, your story can’t be The Story without reminding anyone who’ll listen that Ann McLeod was...
By Bill Cherry
To want to talk about being a teenage boy growing up in Galveston in the ‘50s, your story can’t be The Story without reminding anyone who’ll listen that Ann McLeod was...
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH BILL CHERRY: A REMEMBRANCE
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A couple of weeks ago, the mother of three of my very favorite ladies passed away. She died the day before her 92-birthday. Her name was Dorothy McDonald.
Her middle daughter, Mary, and I went through school together. Her youngest daughter, Kath...
Her middle daughter, Mary, and I went through school together. Her youngest daughter, Kath...
TEENAGE DJ'S APPROACH TO SALES - CHPT. 2
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The Teenage Radio Announcer's Approach to Sales -- Chapter 2
In Wednesday's blog, I recounted how I sold a radio station owner into hiring me as an announcer and personality on his station when I was fourteen.
There was another chapter of th...
In Wednesday's blog, I recounted how I sold a radio station owner into hiring me as an announcer and personality on his station when I was fourteen.
There was another chapter of th...
Kid Radio Man & What He Knows About House Staging
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THE KID DJ APPLIES WHAT HE LEARNED IN
RADIO TO HOME SALES!
When I was 14 I wanted to be a radio announcer really badly. I'm short (5'5"). And in those days not only was I short, but I didn't weigh but about 110 pounds. But I had a deep voice -...
RADIO TO HOME SALES!
When I was 14 I wanted to be a radio announcer really badly. I'm short (5'5"). And in those days not only was I short, but I didn't weigh but about 110 pounds. But I had a deep voice -...
The Citizen vs Illegal Allien & Bank of America
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The Citizen vs. the Illegal Alien at the Bank of America.
We learned in school that corporations have many of the rights of people, the inference being that we are primarily alike in most ways except one is animate and the other isn't.
But wha...
We learned in school that corporations have many of the rights of people, the inference being that we are primarily alike in most ways except one is animate and the other isn't.
But wha...
Your House's Foundation is Crumbling!
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YOUR FOUNDATION IS CRUMBLING. YOUR HOUSE WILL SOON BE IN THE FLOWER BED...
When I was a kid, everyone made jokes about the sleazy business practices of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen. They'd stop by and offer to clean your house for free. ...
When I was a kid, everyone made jokes about the sleazy business practices of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen. They'd stop by and offer to clean your house for free. ...
JIMMY BEAUMONT AND THE FAMOUS SKYLINERS
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The other evening, just before midnight, I was listening to a local weekly Saturday night radio program that plays doo wop, race music and rhythm and blues. Music primarily recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. The guy who fronts the program on Dallas'...
First the Interurban Train, Then the Gulf Freeway
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THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY, THEN THE GULF FREEWAY -- CONNECTING HOUSTON & GALVESTON FOREVER
While Galveston and Houston have always been rivals, there has never been a time when wisdom didn't show it to both cities' best interest to work together....
While Galveston and Houston have always been rivals, there has never been a time when wisdom didn't show it to both cities' best interest to work together....
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH BILL CHERRY
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Cartier.
Louis-Françoise Cartier took over the shop of famed Paris jewelry designer, Adolph Picard, in 1847. One hundred, sixty years later, bijoutier de la boîte rouge has opened an exquisite boutique in Dallas' famed NorthPark Mall. In fact, i...
Louis-Françoise Cartier took over the shop of famed Paris jewelry designer, Adolph Picard, in 1847. One hundred, sixty years later, bijoutier de la boîte rouge has opened an exquisite boutique in Dallas' famed NorthPark Mall. In fact, i...
