There was a rumor running rapid across the playground back in 1964... [View all]

[WCGreen]

We were all convinced, on inside information provided by Sticky Tom whose dad was a muckity muck downtown, that if Goldwater was to win, he would make us all go to school on SATURDAYS!!!!

Now this was on the asphalt jungle at the corner of Madison Ave. and Marlow Ave. back of St. Clemens Church and school.

Now it was only a few months away from the awful Assignation of our president, President Kennedy and since our president, President Kennedy picked LBJ as his running mate, we mae him sort of a shirt tail Catholic.

We were so upset that going into the election, all of us were taking communion and during that special time when Jesus was dissolving on our mouths, we prayed for LBJ.

Now we were certain the JFK was in Heaven, probably right there with God and Jesus and the Dove, never quite understood how the dove tied into all of this, but Kennedy, he was out mouthpiece in Heaven, no doubt because we were all a little bit Irish in that neck of the woods.

So I ask you, what was going on around your playgrounds when it came to elections.

I remember this like it was yesterday. I even ran into Sticky Tom at a AA meeting some decades later.