"No Mouse for me"

Not with those big ears and a tail that can thread the eye of a needle. I never was a fan of the Mickey Mouse club, and besides, we never had a TV.

We watched the programs on the radio. Like jack Benny, Fred Allen, Red Skelton, Edger and Charley, Fibber McGee and Molly, Guiltier Sleeve, the Shadow, the Squeaking Door. Yes, I said we watched them! They sounded so real, one could visualize them.

All were viewed on a Sunday afternoon with the family seated around the radio. It was one of them ‘big boys’ that would bring in stations from around the world. It was called a Coronado, that Dad got, either at Gambles or the Fire Stone store. There was a wire coil on the top of it, for better reception. The radio had many bands to listen to, like short
wave. For better reception yet, Dad strung a wire high up between two trees out side and connected it to the radio.

Radios like this were new at that time, and everyone came around to see it. My grand father was some what deaf, so Dad bought some ear phones for him to use. He would listen to stations from Germany and other countries.

There were a number of radios just coming out on the market and I learned that most of them were made by the same company and they put different names on them. To name a few, there was RCA Victor, Weston house, GE, Crosley, Motorola, Emerson and Zenith.

I heard about a guy in Spearfish, that was working with radios and I hitchhiked to Spearfish to see him. I wanted to lean about radio, but he said I was too young. But if I did get into radio, Two way radios was the way to go, they were starting to put them into police and highway patrol cars. And he told me that soon, every one would be walking around with a radio.

Page Two, There, I found Detective Dick Tracy, talking with someone on his two way wrist watch radio.

Page three, Alley Oop was up high on Dinosaur Denny’s nick, Lighting his cigar from a electric neon light.

Page four, Wimpy was eating a dozen or so hamburgers from a tray and Pop eye was saying, “Well blow me down”, while baby Sweet Pee was crawling around on the floor. I wonder, did baby Sweet Pee ever learn to walk ?

We all tend to out grow those things and never know how they end. But the Mouse lives on and there is no telling just how old he is going to get. “Long Live Mickey”

When I was young, maybe five or six, we had a movie projector and a film of a cat called Filex, chasing a mouse. Wonder if Filex ever caught that mouse ?

I guess cats don’t chase mice anymore, The last mouse I saw, a cat was playing with it. Dogs chase cats and cats run, Dogs just set there and look at a mouse.

Politics has changed everything, even my eggs that I had for breakfast this morning, they had spots on them. Or was that Lunch ? I wonder what those spots were? Now they are fooling around with our time.

With a choice of Liberty or Death. I'll take the Money. Oh oh! here come them guys in white coats again, I have to run.

By; Ben R.