La Vida Mexico

  Besides Radio there was another major portion of my life in Milwaukee.    The Braves of Boston moved to Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Braves. When we moved to that duplex on Martha Washington Drive I found a great lifelong friend in a close neighbor, two doors away.  Her name was Lois Jean Proulx.  I don't think even the nuns at her all girls Catholic High School, Divine Savior, ever called her anything but Bunkie.  It was an appellation gifted by her brother who couldn't say pumpkin.  Ongoing aside, we are still friends today and she and her husband Bob have been here for a visit. Anyway, between my house and hers was another duplex.  In the baseball season it was occupied by a couple of Milwaukee Braves pitchers, Lew Burdette and Warren Spahn.  Bunkie'd already been baby sitting for their kids.  The Burdettes moved to a house but the Spahn's remained our neighbor.  To say we became Braves fanatics would be an understatement.  Ou...

  Part 1. My family moved to the downstairs half of a duplex in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, (Milwaukee suburb) when I was in high school.  The teamsters, of which my Dad was one, went on strike.  A job opportunity (read new winter coat) presented itself when my pal Bunkie and I discovered that the Top Forty Radio  Station just across the park from us needed some willing labor to catalog 45 records that were replacing the 78's they had always "spun."   We hired on to catalog records for about $25 a month.  Bunkie returned to the real world of school and nursing dreams.  I stayed at WRIT in Milwaukee for the rest of my high school career.  I worked from four to eight each night of the week, cataloging new releases, helping with contests and winners, learning to write copy and generally having a very good time.  Our night time newsman for a while was Tom Snyder who went on to become a late night talk show host.  DJs came and went, our progra...