Hey, everyone.
One week to go! (And maybe it’s a little bit early to start thinking about things in terms of hours, but we’ve only got 168 to go. Actually, since the solstice happens next Sunday morning at 10:03AM ET, we’re even closer than that!)
In terms of time, let’s take a trip back about seven decades and see what was happening on this day across these many years. (And just for fun, I’ll throw some info in on a guy you may know – just for some local flavor. (-:)
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DATE IN HISTORY |
DAY’S EVENT | ME |
NOTES |
| December 14, 1957 | The Broadway show Rumple (a modern and clever adaptation of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale) closed at The Alvin Theater after 45 performances. | Not yet born. | In 1983, The Alvin Theater was renamed for Neil Simon. |
| December 14, 1967 | Fathom (with Raquel Welch) barely surpassed $1 million dollars in sales at the box office. | Living in Oil City, PA with my then-new baby sister, Kerry. | This was considered a failure for 2oth Century Fox Studios. |
| December 14, 1977 | Legendary rock and roll band KISS started a three-performance concert series at Madison Square Garden. | Busy navigating through those tough junior high years, doing final rehearsals for A Christmas Carol (as Bob Cratchit). | Kiss went on to sell over 100 million albums worldwide. |
| December 14, 1987 | A tornado outbreak in West Memphis (Crittenden County), TN claims a half-dozen lives and injures hundreds of others. | Officially wrapped work on Clara’s Heart (Featuring Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris). | Goldberg (born Caryn E. Johnson) went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Ghost (1990). |
| December 14, 1997 | Former Guess Who guitarist and songwriter Kurt Winter dies at age 51 (kidney failure). | Watching the New York Jets trounce the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-0. | During the game, several people were arrested for throwing snowballs at the Buccaneer players. |
| December 14, 2007 | New Jersey votes to abolish the death penalty. | Taking my younger daughter, Sam, to swimming lessons. | Movie blockbuster I Am Legend (Will Smith) is released in New York and Los Angeles. |
| December 14, 2017 | PBS suspends American talkshow host and author Tavis Smiley for general misconduct. | Waiting for my older daughter, Alex, to come home after completing her first semester of college. | Later that month, our family traveled to Montreal, Canada where temperatures were a balmy (-18) Fahrenheit. |
| December 14, 2027 |
STAY |
TUNED | GANG |
Guess we’ll see what happens in the next few years. No matter how cliche, time just goes and goes, huh?
See you tomorrow.
JFish
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