Larry's Sorta Fun Stories

After last week’s episode, I got a message from Robert and he really remembered the show that he used to watch on WHAS-TV in Louisville, KY station, the Randy and Cactus show. He even remembered the theme song for the show,  (INSERT THEME SONG) So, as I have asked, if there is something that reminds you of a memory let me know at Larry’s Sorta Fun Stories dot com …  After hearing from Robert, I th...

There they were …   Captain Jinks (Stan Lonergan) and Salty Sam (George Bahsillyun).  They hosted the afternoon children’s program The Captain Jinks TV Show on NBC affiliate WEEK-TV in Peoria, Illinois. The show was live and unscripted and ran from the 1956 – 1972. The show had various segments like the joke barrel and cartoons, but the fun part was hearing the Ol’ Captain adlibbing making Salty S...

I wasn’t drunk, but I was staring at the bottles so neatly stacked on the shelfs in front of me on the other side of the bar.  As I was staring at the bottles, my right hand was draped around a glass of Budweiser.  Ken was by my side.  It was a quiet place where you could be alone.  The Trust Me Tavern in Mossville, Illinois was located between my hometown of Chillicothe and Peoria on Route Twenty...

LOST PHONE Thursday morning and it’s 8:30 and I am ready to head out the door to my Writer’s Group at the Event Center at Trilogy of Orlando.   I’m going to take the car today because it looks like rain, and it is supposed to rain off-and-on all day. I have the car key flub, my clipboard with today’s writing and … all I need now is my phone.  But I can’t find my phone.   I knew I had my phone earl...

Copy to follow Rollins College Crummer School of Business Memo to Dr Johnson This week's story is a story from a memo written to Dr. Mark W Johnson who's a Professor of Marketing and Ethics at the Crummer School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park Florida.   Go back to 2001, my wife at the time thought I needed further college education well I had never graduated from any colle...

The class I should not have taken in high school. All my life I have been in business, and I never took any classes that was related to business. Still a product of that of the education system of today, but that is a different story.  In my freshman year in dear old Chillicothe Township High School, my father thought it would be a good idea for me to learn something about building things.  My fat...

Western Union Clock “Well, the massive Western Union Clock on the bunker wall says that time’s up for this week but remember you can check me out at Jay Lawrence Radio Host on Facebook, drop me a line or make a request. So, join us again next time. I’ll still be here in the bunker getting some more shows together FROM STATESIDE here on the UK 1940s Radio Station. Until Next Time, I’m Jay Lawrence...

Day Two: Birmingham to Tulsa We are on a pilgrimage to move my youngest son from Eustis, Florida to Golden Colorado.  We spent all day on Saturday packing the twenty-foot U-Haul truck and we hit the road on Sunday.  My son and I would be driving the truck and his wife, and her father would be following us in another car. The U-Haul truck was also pulling one of my son’s cars and we were dragging a...

This actually happened.  Saturday night June 12th was the most anticipated event that happens here at Trilogy when the Cascades of Groveland Entertainment and Arts Group Presents the SUMMER SIZZLER in Cooperation with Trilogy Musicians Initiative Concert at the Trilogy Event Center. I had heard that this was supposed to be an excited and ticketed event, I purchased two tickets.  Assuming as naive...

Creative Writing: IT WAS THURSDAY. Thursday morning was the day I went to a writing class at the community center.  After class I walked a couple of blocks to the café on Main Street where everyone went for lunch.  Yes, I had my usual table with my back to the wall.  Heather was my server, and she knew what I was going to order. The chop salad was waiting for me. But this was not going to be just...

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Dress up and Go Dancing ... that was the tag line for the commercials.  It was 1963 and I was just out of high school.  Always the entrepreneur, I thought it would be a good idea to create a Teen-A-Go-Go for the youth in my home town.  Enjoy   Besides putting my record player out the window and blasting the neighbors I also got into trouble with some other neighbors a little later.    I had gradua...

   Of course, it was a cold Friday night; it was November in Chillicothe. The town where we knew almost everybody in town.  I and a couple of friends were walking … heading north on Sixth Street. The street was silent. The town was silent. This was a night we were supposed to be dancing at the Sugar Shack. The music was supposed to be blaring … I was to be rejoicing and celebrating our youthful ag...

A poem I wrote for my wife in 2017 We're heading east with sadness …  the vacation was over  My wife was by my side but the mountains where in my rearview mirror, but the mountains were in my rearview mirror.  My mind thinks of the times we had together What were they like pondering a hiking trail or seeing deer in the meadow at Sunset?  but the mountains were in my rearview mirror  the mount...

We were able to get so great talent for KBHL 95.3 in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Scott Campbell came to little ol' Lincoln, Nebraska from a radio station in San Diego, California.  Hear how the station transitioned from The Sound of the New Life to NEW LIFE 95 KBHL. Scot Campbell became KBHL’s Program Director, he spent a lot of time communicating with the listeners.  He heard them say they listened...

The call letter had real meaning.  KBHL stood for Kept By His Love. This is part 2 of a three part series.   Finally on March 6th, 1975, at 6 p.m. in the middle of an ice storm KBHL goes on the air and Mike Wagner does the Sign-On, “This is KBHL FM stereo in Lincoln Nebraska, we now wish you God's blessings and begin broadcasting with inspirational music for your enjoyment.”  March 6th at 6 p...

in 1973 it was my vision to create the first Contemporary Christian Music Radio Station in the United States.  This is the back story of how it got started. This is the story of KBHL 95.3 in Lincoln, Nebraska.  It’s just like it was yesterday Friday April 20th, 1973. My wife was driving that big white and red topped Buick and we were just east of Council Bluffs, Iowa on Interstate 80. We were head...

It was her hair.  She was slowly moving around the skating rink, but I kept seeing her long hair as she was trying to teach her young child to skate.  Oh yes, I noticed her long legs.  She had a pair of white slacks and those legs really stood out.   You might have heard me mention this episode in another story.  I was managing a roller-skating rink on a Sunday afternoon in October of 1981, and I...

I don’t really call myself a cyclist or I haven’t gone all out to purchase all the fancy clothes to wear on my bike.  I guess I just like the feel of the wind on my face and remember as a kid how I used to ride my twenty-six-inch red Schwinn bike with the basket on the front around my hometown of Chillicothe, Illinois. The thrill of riding my bike then was, I wasn’t confined to just my yard to pla...