Archive for April, 2011

MCDONALD’S FOUNDED ON THIS DATE IN 1955

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Businessman Ray Kroc (above) (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) took over the small-scale McDonald’s Corporation franchise in 1954. The present McDonald’s corporation dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant in Des Plains, Illinois
( shown below), the ninth McDonald’s restaurant overall.

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The Des Plaines, Illinois McDonald’s, mid 1960’s

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WILD BILL HICKOK DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1951

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(Left to right: Guy Madison and Andy Devine) 

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok was originally a western action radio series
that ran for 271 episodes from April of 1951 through December of 1954 on the
Mutual Broadcasting System. The main cast members were, Guy Madison as
U.S.Marshal James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok, and Andy Devine as Deputy Marshal
‘Jingles’ P. Jones (pictured above) The show was about a U.S. Marshall and his
300 pound sidekick who brought bad guys to justice in the old west. The first
episode was titled Behind Southern Lines. Unlike most series that made the
transition from radio to TV, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok kept the
same cast as the radio show.

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Kellogg’s cereal was the sponsor of the show

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HOME ONCE OWNED BY JANET LEIGH IS FOR SALE

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Actress Janet Leigh (above) is  most noted for her film role as Marion Crane
in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller “Psycho”. She died in 2004 at the age of
77 and now her former home in Beverly Hills (below) is on the real estate
market with a $4.5 million price tag.

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Front of the Leigh home

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Swimming pool in the rear
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JACKIE BEFORE JOHN

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Jackie Kennedy (above), prior to meeting John F. Kennedy in 1961 and
eventually becoming the country’s First Lady, was Jacqueline Bouvier,
a roving press photographer for the Washington Times-Harold.


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John and Jackie Kennedy
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THE FIRST LADY OF COUNTRY MUSIC IS 79 TODAY

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Country music singer and songwriter Loretta Lynn has written over 160 songs 
songs and released 70 albums. She has had ten Number 1 albums and sixteen
Number 1 singles on the country charts. Lynn has won dozens of awards from
many different institutions, including four Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, eight BMI awards, and ten Academy of Country Music awards. In 1972,
Lynn was the first woman named "Entertainer of the Year" by the Country Music Association, and is one of six women to have received CMA’s highest award. She
was named "Artist of the Decade" for the 1970s by the Academy of Country
Music. Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and the
Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1999. Lynn is ranked 65th on VH1’s
100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Loretta Lynn continues to be one of the
most successful vocalists of all time. 

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