Tag Archives: baby-boomers

The Dawn of Orion

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Joe Clark

I always start work early and today was no exception. My wife could not sleep and got up in the middle of the night to watch TV in the living room. Where, of course, she fell asleep. I awoke before … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Life in General | Tagged baby-boomers, Cape Kennedy, George Jetson, I Dream of Jeannie, jetcars, landing on the moon, launching the rocket, Lost in Space, Mars, Orion, Star Trek | Comments Off

Sky King!

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Joe Clark

As a bit of humor, yesterday I posed the question of Rin-Tin-Tin and Lassie knowing one another. By the time I finished writing at the end of the piece, I realized the true answer to the question would determine the … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, History, Life in General | Tagged airplanes, an old Cessna T-50, baby-boomers, Cessna 310B, Cessnas, Florida, Florida’s Beeline Expressway, flying, Gloria Winters, his niece Penny, influencing more young girls and boys into aviation, judgment, Kennedy Space Center, Kirby Grant, Lassie, learning to fly, NASA, Navy, pilots, professional pilots, Rin-Tin-Tin, Ripcord, Schuyler “Sky” King, Sky King!, STS–16-A, The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, the shadows of Mercury Gemini and Apollo, the Sky King Youth Ranches of America, the Songbird, the Space Shuttle Challenger, The Whirlybirds | 6 Comments

Where is My Jetcar?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Joe Clark

When the clocks ticked over from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, everyone in the entire world collectively held their breath to see if all of the computers would crash. There had been a great deal written and published … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged 2001 A Space Odyssey, airplanes, Apollo, baby-boomers, Bones, Captain Kirk, code writers, computers, December 31 1999, flying, flying cars, Gemini, Gene Roddenberry, George Jetson, Global Positioning Satellites, hardware, internal clocks, January 1 2000, Jetcar, John Young, Michael Collins, New Year’s Eve, old-fashioned, recognizing the year 2000, Saturday morning cartoons, Scottie, software, Spock, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, the end of the world, the last Gemini mission, the moon, the New Millennium, the Starship USS enterprise, this perspective, turn of the century, Where is My Jetcar? | Comments Off

Telephones

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Joe Clark

When we baby-boomers were still in grade school and watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, the Sunday morning papers carried an interesting comic strip, Dick Tracy. One of the most interesting “gadgets” the fictional cop used in fighting crime was his … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged Agent 86 Maxwell Smart, Alexander Graham Bell, baby-boomers, communications industry, Dick Tracy, digital cell phones, Dr. Martin Cooper, grandparents, miniature hand held computers, Motorola Corporation, NASA, parents, smart phones, space program, Star Trek, Sunday morning papers, telecommunicator, Telephones | 3 Comments

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