sometimes it takes me a while to get around to writing about a subject i intended to address, largely either because i get sidetracked by my day job, suffer a brain freeze moment or the cable goes down…as it has been several times since this time last week! i hate what progress is doing to our once quite, semi-rural neighborhood!

a few birthdays, historic milestones and other fun stuff:

this year

the World Wide Web - 06 Aug 1991

Gidget turns 60 - Kathy Kohner, the original inspiration for popular surfer girl from the 1960’s, is 66 this year, while Sally Field, the actress who played Gidget, turned 60

this month

25 Aug

• 1940 - 1st parachute wedding
• and 26, 1944 - Paris liberated - the US 4th Infantry and the French 2nd Armored
  divisions marched down the Champs d’Elysees after the Germans
  surrendered the city
• 1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
• 1963 - Paul McCartney is fined œ31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding

do you have some favorite milestones to note?

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