After a milk run to the local courthouse I stopped by Chuck’s Barber Shop to visit and get my hair cut, which led to me having a revelation about pipes from the Classic Era, which began with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and began to end when MacAuthur drove towards the Yalu River in late 1950 in North Korea and utter catastrophe.
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Chuck is the oldest barber in town and the subject yesterday morning was moments that all Americans were only Americans and me and Chuck and an 88 year old man could all remember the Twin Towers, and we told our stories of just where we were when we heard it.
And me and the old man could remember exactly where we were on November 22, 1963 when Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
But when I asked the old man if he remembered Pearl Harbor he said no, he was only four, but he had two older brothers in the war. What he remembered was Christmas 1950 when his mother cried all day afraid he’d have to go to Korea, and he bowed his head and was quiet.
Chuck and I were quiet too, until Ray Price came over the satellite radio and all three of us started playing air guitars and imaginary fiddles and singing along and holding up fingers and counting to three to “Heartaches” with Ray and his Cherokee Cowboys.
And this morning as I was checking eBay to see if my $20 Marxman Jumbo was on it’s way to me I had a revelation when I heard
That’s the Way it Was in 51.
There is no way in hell Kaywoodie would have went to varnished Supergrain three hole stingers and Bob and Helen Marx would have sold $5 Jumbos like the one I’m waiting on before the entire nation of the United States of America knew, we were not always invincible.
A classic era USA made pipe was shipped after victory in 1919 and before stalemate in 1951.
There might be a few exceptions.
Merle Haggard had a Chuck’s Barber Shop grade classic era nostril nosed twanger one name hit in 1978 with “51”.
Catastrophe on the Yalu: America’s intelligence failure in Korea
The United States has been in conflict with North Korea since it invaded South Korea in 1950. For decades, it has been a top American intelligence priority to gather information and analysis on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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Chuck is the oldest barber in town and the subject yesterday morning was moments that all Americans were only Americans and me and Chuck and an 88 year old man could all remember the Twin Towers, and we told our stories of just where we were when we heard it.
And me and the old man could remember exactly where we were on November 22, 1963 when Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
But when I asked the old man if he remembered Pearl Harbor he said no, he was only four, but he had two older brothers in the war. What he remembered was Christmas 1950 when his mother cried all day afraid he’d have to go to Korea, and he bowed his head and was quiet.
Chuck and I were quiet too, until Ray Price came over the satellite radio and all three of us started playing air guitars and imaginary fiddles and singing along and holding up fingers and counting to three to “Heartaches” with Ray and his Cherokee Cowboys.
And this morning as I was checking eBay to see if my $20 Marxman Jumbo was on it’s way to me I had a revelation when I heard
That’s the Way it Was in 51.
There is no way in hell Kaywoodie would have went to varnished Supergrain three hole stingers and Bob and Helen Marx would have sold $5 Jumbos like the one I’m waiting on before the entire nation of the United States of America knew, we were not always invincible.
A classic era USA made pipe was shipped after victory in 1919 and before stalemate in 1951.
There might be a few exceptions.
Merle Haggard had a Chuck’s Barber Shop grade classic era nostril nosed twanger one name hit in 1978 with “51”.
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