This day in history (well, my story).

In 1964, this was the day my family moved from Holden, West Virginia to Richmond, VA. For a while it looked like it was going to be Louisville, KY but something changed. I am now sorry it was not Louisville which seems to me a far better place though I have never been there.

Immediate damage – I had to miss my last ever Little League baseball game. I think this was intentional because I volunteered to be catcher in the previous game (spare you that story) and my mother was pissed that the manager let me do it.

That night I missed my favorite DJ Dick Biondi of WLS in Chicago was doing a dance party/sock hop kind of thing in Logan which was 4 miles away. I listened to his show every night on my Hitachi transistor radio that could suck in flamethrower AM stations from almost half of the country under my pillow.

Long term consequences – Small coal country town kid hits the ‘big’ city full of right wing backward cracker bigots. I never liked Richmond and still don’t. Too bad most of my remaining family still lives there.

I always wondered what would have happened if we had never left WVa. I probably would not be in California and probably a lawyer or a judge or in politics there. I do know if we had moved to Kentucky I would not have been a jockey.

Sorry I have nothing to look at. Seems I lost my video and photo powers. Here’s my grade school.

Hope that gets your day off to a rip-roaring start.

Julia the Spy

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