Innholdsfortegnelse for October - November 2017 i Reminisce

I am beyond saddened. SHERIDAN FENWICK “My family never missed his TV show.” LINDA ROBERTS “My sister danced on his show.” DAVID SHOOP “I loved so many of his songs.” BECKY STROUD WEST “I’ve been a fan for 50 years. I finally saw him in 2012.” PATRICIA SCHWECKE Join the conversation: FACEBOOK.COM/  REMINISCEMAGAZINE…

For more than 40 years, I have been doing genealogy research. I spent the early years physically digging through old family Bibles and plowing through countless library books. Fortunately, my great-uncle had done quite a bit of research that he kindly passed down to me. Of course, when the computer came along, searching for information about family members became a whole lot easier. And when Ancestry Publishing started in 1983, people got even more interested in genealogy. Now, info on more than 3 million people is in its DNA database. I’m 80 and I thought I had completed my research—that is, until two years ago, when I had my DNA tested and discovered that I had at least 129 distant cousins. I contacted many of my matches right away. One,…

1819 Francis Perot uses the first steam engine in his Philadelphia brewery. 1873 Adolphus Busch, partner in Anheuser-Busch Brewing, begins pasteurizing his beer. 1935 American Can Co. and G. Krueger Brewing Co. introduce canned beer. 1959 Coors Brewing Co. introduces aluminum cans. 1962 Pittsburg Brewery Co. introduces pull tabs on cans of its Iron City beer. 1967 Meister Brau in Chicago, IL, introduces light beer made from a recipe devised by biochemist-turned-brewer Joseph L. Owades. 1977 Jack McAuliffe starts New Albion Brewing Co.in Sonoma, CA, the first modern craft brewery. 1982 Bert Grant opens Grant’s Brewery Pub in Yakima, WA. It’s the first since Prohibition to sell food along with beer brewed on the premises.…

Schlitz Brewing Co. once owned a 46-acre parcel west of the Milwaukee River in the city of the same name. At its peak, the Schiltz Park facility employed almost 3,000 people, and annually brewed more than 6 million barrels of beer. Except for the Prohibition drought, when its brewhouses and bottling plants shifted production to chocolate, Schlitz Park was one of the world’s largest breweries. Then in 1981, the company was sold to Stroh Brewing and the Milwaukee complex shuttered. Two years later, The Brewery Works Inc. purchased the facility and rehabilitated it for commercial use. Today, Schlitz Park tenants employ 4,300, and the facility’s rebirth has earned national recognition.…

Johnny Cash sang that he wore black “for the poor and beaten down.” Longtime bandmate W.S. “Fluke” Holland said there was another reason: “It wouldn’t show dirt as quickly.” Plane travel dominated my corporate experience during the 1990s. Before one of my trips, I was sitting in a quiet waiting area at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport before a flight to El Paso, Texas, when I was startled by a commotion among the passengers. There was a lot of screaming and pushing as they flocked around an older couple sitting in a corner, where the man, dressed in black, was writing. “Who’s that signing autographs?” I asked a man sitting near me. “It’s Johnny Cash with June Carter,” he replied. “And they’re on our flight.” Which is how I found…

“We loved the neat morals the show embraced. At the time, I was dating the man who would become my husband, and we often said if we had a son we’d call him Beaver. We did marry, and our 50-something son has been nicknamed “The Beaver” all these years.”GAIL BEAUCHAMP • RED LODGE, MT THE BEAV AND ME My favorite family sitcom when I was growing up was Leave It to Beaver. I’d quickly change out of my school clothes and into my playclothes when I got home so I could watch Leave It to Beaver before heading outside. As an adult I see the show as an ideal of the mid-20th-century suburban family. As a child, I enjoyed watching the antics of The Beaver because he reminded me of…

MY ENTIRE FAMILY AND THE POLICEMAN WERE RUNNING IN TO SEE IF I WAS OK. Back in 1965, when I was 13, I came home from a baby-sitting job to an empty house. My parents and brother were at church, and my sister was at work. I went into the bathroom and peeled off my clothes to take a shower. Just then, I heard my sister come home. I decided this was the perfect opportunity to scare her, so I hid behind the shower curtain to lunge out when she passed by. But instead of coming in, she dropped everything and ran out the door. Sheesh! What’s wrong with her? I wondered. I shrugged it off and took my shower. Unfortunately, I was in for a nasty shock of my…

Do you want fries with that? A whopping 4.3 million babies were born in 1957—the biggest year of the U.S. baby boom. No wonder busy moms included fast food on the menu. Test your fast-food IQ below. 1 Burger King introduced the fast-food industry’s first gimmick burger in 1957. Name it. 2 Housewives in 1957 could serve a “home-cooked” dinner without turning on the stove, thanks to the new Bucket Meal. Which restaurant sold it? 3 Brazier-cooked burgers and hot dogs joined Dilly Bars and banana splits at this chain in 1957. 4 McDonald’s boasted 40 locations (and $4.4 million in sales) in 1957. About how many of its restaurants operate today? 5 Fast Food magazine declared Billy Ingram to be the “granddaddy of the hamburger” in 1957. Name…

Elvis Presley leaped into 1957 a star after a year of successes that included the release of his first album, a national tour, his first movie and two spots on The Ed Sullivan Show. He bought the 1939 mansion known as Graceland after living for a year in a smaller house. It would come to embrace his spirit, as it still does today. Nothing else is quite like Graceland, though Prince’s Paisley Park comes close.…

NOW I COULD KID HER THAT WE WERE STEPBROTHER AND SISTER. While at work, I got a call that my grandmother had passed away suddenly. That evening, my family met at my aunt’s house. The men were seated at the dining table, with me at the far end facing the door into the living room. I looked up to see three women standing in the doorway. One was my mother, but I had never seen the other two, a middle-aged lady and a teenage girl. The woman turned out to be my dad’s cousin, and thus my grandmother’s niece. The teenage girl was this cousin’s niece. Her aunt had brought her to pay her respects to my grandmother’s family. Without my knowledge, the girl started asking my mother questions about…

1826 The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance forms in Boston. In three years, its membership reaches more than 100,000. 1846 Maine becomes first state to pass a prohibition law. 1919 After 36 states ratify the resolution, the secretary of state proclaims the 18th Amendment part of the Constitution, effective Jan. 16, 1920. 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the presidency over incumbent Herbert Hoover on a platform that includes repealing the ban. 1933 Congress proposes the 21st Amendment to repeal Prohibition. Utah provides the final vote to institute the change.…

Miller High Life’s Girl in the Moon went from standing on a wooden crate in ads when the beer launched in 1903 to riding a crescent moon in 1907. Colorfully dressed and clutching a bottle in one hand and a whip under her arm, the youthful sprite toasts with the amber nectar. She disappeared from labels briefly, but since 1998 she’s kept up appearances on bottles and cans. SCHLITZ PALM GARDEN Located in downtown Milwaukee, the 450-seat beer garden, above and opposite, was designed by architect Charles Kirchoff Jr. and built in 1895. An opulent jewel adjacent to the Schlitz Hotel, the Palm Garden closed in 1919 during Prohibition and was converted in 1921 to a movie theater. Its doors shut in 1960; four years later, the mid-Victorian treasure was…

In today’s marketplace, small independent craft brewers represent the underdogs of the brewing world, but their numbers keep multiplying. According to the Brewers Association, a nonprofit in Boulder, CO, craft breweries in 2016 represented a 12.3 percent market share of U.S. beer by volume. At an estimated $23.5 billion, craft beer retail sales represented a 21.9 percent market share. In 2016, there were 5,301 craft breweries employing nearly 129,000 people. The number of new brewery openings has escalated at a breakneck pace, increasing by 328 percent over the past seven years.…

Daisies have always been my favorite flower. I am charmed by their simplicity and sweetness. I love them so much that I chose them for my bridal bouquet. My mother made my wedding dress and edged the sleeves, the bottom and the train with daisy lace. My bridesmaids carried pink daisy bouquets. Randall and I were married in August 1967, and now, 50 years later, daisies from my parents’ garden adorn a spot in our landscape. Oh, and Daisy was the name of our first beagle after we were married. MARY ANN THALMANN PLATO, MN My first pair of bell-bottoms in the early ’70s was covered with big bright red, white and blue flowers from top to bottom. You could spot me a half-mile away. I sometimes wonder how our…

TRENDSETTING HUES My Mother, Ethel Blome, married my father, Charles Roedersheimer, on Nov. 21, 1940, a time of year when yellow flowers were the only fresh ones available. Her attendants were her sister Deloris in blue and my dad’s sister Martha in pink. I think they wore different colors because there were just the two bridesmaids in the wedding party. I have always thought their dresses to be unique. LOIS DOBRADENKA SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI SHARED ANNIVERSARIES The first of October is a special date for descendents of Dewey and Ruth Bunner, who were married on that day in 1916. Since then, five couples in their extended family have married on Oct. 1, including the three pictured here. Harriet Bunner, Dewey and Ruth’s daughter, married Herbert Dady in 1937 (top right);…

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MUSIC LESSONS Did you take accordion or piano? Study flute, guitar or saxophone? Maybe your mother thought you were the next Pavarotti. Whether you learned at school, at home or in private lessons, we want your notable memories. Label your story “Music Lessons.” BEST HOMETOWN Growing up in your hometown was the best. Bicycling down Main Street, picnicking at the neighborhood park, watching fire trucks in local parades and skating at the roller rink are some of your favorite memories. Tell us what made the place special. Label your story “Best Hometown.” ADVICE FROM MOM/DAD Were you lucky enough to have a dad as wise as Ward Cleaver? Did Mom give better advice than your friends—that is, when you listened? Whose sage advice still rings true today? Label your story…

1754 George Washington enters a beer recipe into his notebook. 1829 David G. Yuengling opens a brewery in Pottsville, PA, that remains America’s oldest still in operation. 1844 Jacob Best starts a brewery in Milwaukee, WI, later known as Pabst Brewing Co. 1849 August Krug forms a brewery in Milwaukee that becomes Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. 1850 Bernhard Stroh establishes Lion’s Head Brewery in Detroit, MI, later renamed The Stroh Brewery Co. 1852 George Schneider launches a brewery in St. Louis, MO, that later becomes industry giant Anheuser-Busch InBev. 1854 Frederick Miller purchases the Plank-Road Brewery near Milwaukee, later renamed Miller Brewing Co. 1858 Gottlieb Heileman and John Gund launch City Brewery, later called G. Heileman Brewing Co., in La Crosse, WI. 1873 Adolph Coors and Denver confectioner Jacob Schueler…

Asurging temperance movement assured the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919, prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol, and with it began what many called “the noble experiment.” Entrepreneurial by nature, brewers quickly shifted gears and began manufacturing other products. Major brands—Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst and Anheuser-Busch—made nonalcoholic malt beverages including near beer, malted milk, root beer and ginger ale. Coors Brewing founder Adolph Coors purchased a nearby ceramics plant, renamed it Coors Porcelain Co., and began making tea sets, sugar bowls, spark plugs and more. (Today, CoorsTek is a global manufacturer of high-tech engineered ceramics.) Before Prohibition, most beer was kegged. Afterward, brewers sold bottled soft drinks and marketed canned malt syrup to home brewers. By the mid-1920s, annual home-brewing supply sales reached $136 million. In addition, the…

American brewers were happy to oblige their customers, those European transplants who still recalled the familial beer gardens of their homeland. Outdoor sitting areas and banquet halls flourished from coast to coast, many offering free meals, music and assorted entertainment for the entire family. Pabst Park, 8 acres in Milwaukee, sported a 15,000-foot-long roller coaster. Rival Schlitz Park boasted a concert pavilion and bowling alley. Coors renamed its Golden Lager “The Banquet Beer” in 1937 when local miners became fans of drinking the beer with every meal or banquet.…

My dad was in the Army, and in 1968-’70, when I was in junior high school, we lived in military housing at Futenma on Okinawa. I remember walking to the nearby theater on post to see the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. Another time, I saw the Herman’s Hermits film Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter. After both, my head was so filled with music that I lightheartedly walked home singing the lyrics. As with many teens, then and now, music had a big impact on me. Listening to the Armed Forces Radio Service, I heard music that was popular in the States. The Beatles, the Monkees, the Bee Gees, the Doors, Cream, Steppenwolf, and Blood, Sweat & Tears were just a few of the bands that were big at the…

“I’d rather not have to think that the only reason I had success was because I went to San Quentin. I do my songs. I don’t talk about it.” There were no jobs to be had where I grew up in Boone County, West Virginia, in the 1960s, so I moved to Chicago, Illinois, to look for work. There I met a friend from Tennessee, who talked me into going with her to a country music club to see an up-and-coming singer named Merle Haggard. After the show, we went backstage to meet him and have our picture taken with him. From that day on, I was hooked on his music. I bought his records and played them for my future husband, Harry Blomstrand, who was a Chicago police officer.…