James (Jim) Mathews

Bill, interesting photo of old Seattle that you posted a few days ago. Judging from what is playing at the Theater-Gone With the Wind, and the age of the cars it was probably 1939.  May have even been the premiere of that movie. The crowd to get in looks like it goes around the block!  None of us were born yet but good times😊

Bob Nicholson

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Bill Engelhardt

Bob's correct -- a mid-1950s re-release of Gone With The Wind, Jim. I saw it for the first time on the big screen at the Paramount in 1968. 

Michael Gray

If you're at all inclined I would highly recommend watching Alive Inside on Amazon, it speaks to the reality we all face in our aging and the value of music in our life.

Bill Engelhardt

Good catch, Mike. 

It's also available on YouTube.....

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Guys....thanks for the recommendation of Alive Inside.  I will look it up.

Karen Buck (White)

I have been facing some of these symptoms and my family has been very helpful and understanding.  I am sorry that so many others are having memory problems in our aging years and yet part of me is glad to know that I am NOT the only one facing this reality.  Thanks for sharing the shows that describe the issure and some help!  

Joe May

Great suggestion Mike, we watched Alive Inside last night, What an uplifting effort on the part music played (plays) in our lives. I'm making my playlist and even doing just that, brought back some fantastic old memories, Highly recommend taking the time to watch. And Bill, keep posting those old top 40 lists so we can keep those memories alive and make great playlists.

Bill Engelhardt

Okay, Joe, here ya go -- Flashback '68

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Geezz, I hardly remember any of these.  Then fast forward to 1969 Woodstock.  Wow, quite a differance!

Al Peffley

Thanks, Michael, for the documentary video suggestion.

Personally, I find many of the tunes of the 1980's most uplifting. It is when my life changed for the better. The quality of the music productions and instrument playing talents seemed to improve by the end of the Vietnam War through the end of the 70's. Every member of the iconic American band known as "Chicago" could not only play several instruments but also sing as well as their adopted lead singer, Peter Cetera, especially after Terry Kath died. They were even better in person than their albums that recorded their hits. I attended one of their performance events (before Peter and his brother Kenny left) at the Tacoma Dome, in the '80's...

Early band photo of the Chicago Transit Authority, AKA "Chicago"

https://www.grunge.com/263954/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-chicago/

Steve Morris

Saw Chicago Transit Authority at Carver Gym at Western WU in 1969 for $2.50. They had one album out. Was happy to be there!

Gary Korsgaard

Saw Chicago here in Seattle on July 15, 1971. It was my first date with my now ex wife,

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Well, I saw Chicago at the Puyallup Fair.  They were fabulous!

Cheryl Miller

I saw CTA at the Eagles in the early 70's  Loved them

Al Peffley

Blood, Sweat, & Tears had the same producer at one time as Chicago. Chicago had to drop the Transit Authority from their band name because the real CTA threatened to sue them if they did not change their name to just "Chicago". Chicago kept evolving because Doc Severinsen (yes, the NBC Orchestra leader on Johnny Carson's Show, from Arlington, Oregon) encouraged them to keep on producing great music. Carl Hilding (AKA "Doc") Severinsen's father was the riverside town's local dentist.

I played the trumpet and french horn in grade school and junior high bands before I entered HHS. Doc was an inspiration to me with his great octive range and tone variance talents. Doc had the professional skills on the trumpet we all strived for, but most of us never achieved. I have often thought of buying a french horn, but never followed up on the urge when I had the money because my lip is so out of shape from years of not playing a brass instrument. I preferred band over orchestra playing on the french horn. I have one daughter and two grand children who all are serious trombone musicians, and one grand daughter who plays the tuba and another who tried playing the cornet. I guess brass playing is in our family line. i'm still a sucker for listening to great guitar "licks" on free-form instrumental jam session albums like "Super Session". TMI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Severinsen

Bill Engelhardt

Feb. 1960

KING radio disc jockey Bill Muncey set a new world speed record for hydroplanes over the measured-mile course with a clocking of 192.001 miles per hour. The mark was established Feb. 16 on Lake Washington. The boat: Miss Thriftway.

Al Peffley

I met "Wild Bill" at Mason Lake while he was visiting our neighbor and testing his APBA 225 Class Limited Hydroplane in the late 1950's. His son worked in Auburn at the motorcycle dealer when it was located over near the airport on Auburn Way. I  never met Bill's second wife, Fran.

The restored Thriftway and the Atlas Van Lines' "Blue Blaster" are located in Kent at the Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum next to the old Boeing Kent Space Center facilities (off of the West Valley Highway.) If you have never been there, It's a fun visit.

My good friend, Phil Lampman (who just passed away) and his daughter, Shelby, helped restore, at the Museum's restoration shop, both cabover unlimiteds that Muncey drove.

Bill Muncey inspired many young men to begin hydroplane racing with APBA and local NW boat racing clubs like the Seattle Outboard Association (SOA), Columbia Outboard Racing Association (CORA), and the Whidbey Island Roostertails (WIR) wildcat club. Chip Hanauer started in SOA driving K and A Class entry-level outboard racing hydroplanes. Bill was his mentor when he entered APBA Limited Hydroplane racing in the 145 Class and won the 145 Class National Title. I met Chip once just after he retired around 1999 at the Museum in Kent during a Ron Jones' Hydroplane Enlosed Cell Design Safety and Communications Symposium. PRO Outboard were transitioning to enclosed capsule boat designs  like the enclosed Fomula 1 petrol-fueled hydros in the APBA/UIM 500cc to 1,000cc methanol-fueled classes. I stayed in the APBA 250cc PRO Hydroplane Class until I retired in 2015. I started in SOA.

https://thunderboats.ning.com/

https://hydroplanehistory.com/personalities/bill_muncey_remembered.html

https://thunderboats.ning.com/page/biography-of-chip-hanauer

Bill Engelhardt

Seafair 1954

Marty Ellison

This photo poped up on my memories page, Mike, John, Bruce Mennella  and I were in the same class entering flight training at Naval Air station Pensacola.  This was taken about October, 1968.  Shortly after that time we attended Mike's Wedding at the NAS Chapel after graduation.

Al Peffley

Additional JFK Assasination report papers are online now. but there is no significant summary in the first release that explains who planned and initiated the shooter[s'] attack. Even the autopsy record is very brief and obviously sanitized in the Warren Report Appendix. No analysis, just photos of notes and hand-typed coordination pages. More information is in the second documents drop.An Act in 1992 concerning the classification and handling of all of the JFK assassination documents was passed by Congress and signed by G.H.W. Bush (in 1976 Bush became the Director of Central Intelligence.)  Go to the User Forums to get a link that discusses the real interesting documents that were released after the Warren Commission Report files. The emerging truth will be shocking to some people...others, not so much.

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk

Our society needs more warrior patriots like Mike. RIP! Pray for our deployed military, our CINC, and SECDEF Pete Hegseth.

[Revised on 19 March 2025]

Bill Engelhardt

Marvelous photo, Marty. And Mike's grin....exactly as I remember him.

Bill

Bill Engelhardt

Gregg Wilson

I have discovered the perfect computer password.

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"Your computer passwod is incorrect. Yes. I know."

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Now that is one of the funniest I have heard!