In the summer of 1977, I was ten years old and playing my second year of organized baseball. In my first year, I wasn’t very good. In fact, I don’t think I recorded one single hit during the entire season. Understandably, I was rather reluctant to play again the following year. But my friends all […]

A Fascination with Album Covers As a kid in the 70’s, one of my favorite things to do while listening to records was to fully examine every inch of the album covers. I especially loved the ones that folded open, providing double the entertainment. Sometimes you’d find lyrics or pictures. Occasionally you’d even see something printed on […]

The Fort In the late 70’s, my friends and I thought it would be really cool if we built ourselves a fort in the upper rafters of our garage. My family had moved into a newly constructed neighborhood in 1975, and houses were continuously being built for the next eight years. This left us with […]

I had just turned 10 years old during the winter of ‘76/’77, but I was already keeping up on the latest music with the devotion of a teenager. On the radio I was exposed to everything from light pop like ABBA, to more classic stuff like Led Zeppelin. But the disco era was also just […]