THE PRIMROSE CHRONICLES

Send a text Episode 208’s title changed slightly from the FB posts that teased its content earlier,  but not its recollections of a favorite summer diversion of many a Boomer youth - FISHIN’ So imagine your bare feet dangling from the bank , your favorite hat shading your eyes & your fishing pole begging for a catch, & enjoy this tale.  It’s really not as boring as it might sound.  Enjoy!!...

Send a text This week’s episode completes the trilogy of tales honoring the teachers of one boomer’s youth.  This time it’s the  representative faculty of Broad Ripple High School.  Teachers of the Math, English, history & science persuasions receive the TPC treatment, as  the Chronicle’s racanteur revisits the classrooms and labs and even the library to bring the listener into a familiarity w...

Send a text This installment completes  loosely combined trilogy of tales told around the role of automobiles in the teen years of one Baby Boomer youth Its content is self-evident from the title. Auto Accidents will be reported and vehicles will be totaled.  Hopefully both will provide cautionary warnings for listeners.  Enjoy this telling, all the while realizing “better him than me”.. 😊 #indyn...

Send a text HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE PRIMROSE CHRONICLES This week’s episode celebrates the one year milestone of TPC by interviewing the young lady who encouraged the writing & recording of these tales.  That would be your host & narrator’s daughter, Jessica and if you listen in, you’ll discover the backstory to this popular nostalgia memoir.  In the process you’ll appreciate the heart be...

Send a text Sit back & enjoy this first interview in the new Primrose Chronicles season.  To commemorate a singular event of the Boomer era, , for Broad Ripple High School  sports history, at any rate, Jack Hogan, stating guard from that basketball quintet is my guest as he talks about that 1963 deep run into the Indiana High School tournament.  A great guest. Lots of wonderful memories. A fun...

Send a text Images that might conjure up bad, even painful memories from a rite of passage are described in this week’s episode of The Primrose Chronicles podcast series as part of the tale of misadventure entitled, IT ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN” It’s all about one Boomer Teen’s misadventures surrounding his first drivers license.  Enjoy!! theprimrosechronicles.buzzsprout.com #firstdrivingtest, #60’snos...

Send a text The Primrose Chronicles drops the flag, peels out and squeals tires in this second episode of Season Two.  The cars that graced the Young Family driveways had their own stories, some of which will find their way into the audio tales that comprise this installment & the next.  Cadillacs, Mercurys & Plymouths, Oh my!! Welcome back.  And be sure to check out pics accompanying this...

Send a text The first episode of season Two of TPC is a mix up of some of the winter activities the kids on Primrose, and particularly, the young Clan engaged in, enjoyed and endured when white stuff covered the yards, sidewalks & streets.  Some are particular to them, but most could be found in the memories of many a baby boomer when recalling their youth and childhood.  Take a listen & s...

Send a text With this installment the curtain comes down not only on a TPC Christmas Trilogy of episodes but also Season One of the Chronicles.  It’s focus is the music of the season sung by choirs, played on phonographs & heard on every radio station regardless of genre. It’s a rich concoction of tunes and melodies that draws from its own roots becoming beloved standards of today.  It will al...

Send a text This is the middle installment in a trio of episodes dedicated to the sights, events & activities surrounding the Holiday season as celebrated by families of the 50’s & 60’s in Middle America. They’re remembered by a Boomer youth as highlights from his memory trove. This chapter recalls several family activities of the season but centers around the trip downtown to see “the rea...

Send a text Episode 28 is the first of a Trio of offerings revisiting at least one representation of Baby Boomer Christmas, seen as always, thru the eyes of a youth growing up in middle America during the 50’s & 60’s. As a collection they recall the Trees, the Toys, the Tunes & the Traditions representative of those two decades.  As the title implies, the focus this week is about the cente...

Send a text Though belated by a week, this is theThanksgiving episode of TPC, remembering that Fall event as celebrated by the Young family of Primrose Ave in the middle  of the 20th century.  A fun nostalgic look at one of the simpler holidays in the annual calendar.  Take a listen in & see how one boomer youth’s recollections match up with yours, or just enjoy this tale of a long past era. ...

Send a text Episode 27 pays homage and reflect upon the Saturday morning westerns that entertained a juvenile audience for over a decade while teaching values beneficial to life as kids grew into adulthood.   Simple storylines and one-dimensional larger than life characters provided positive life lessons, all the while promoting  a variety of cereals, candies and toys young viewers couldn’t live w...

Send a text An even more encompassing fear for the United States populace than the health epidemic shared in the last episode was the decade long plus hysteria prompted by the nuclear arms race between America & Russia and the side show created by the media as they covered it and politicians as they fanned it to their advantage.  Primrose was not immune to this and this installment puts a very...

Send a text This installment of THE PRIMROSE CHRONICLES is the first of two episodes in the series dealing with three societal fears that threatened the emotional well being of an entire nation because of the uncertain future  each potentially afforded American families.  As somber as that sounds, the subjects are still viewed thru the limited understanding of the young narrator and host of the Ch...

Send a text For many kids October 31st was a date second only to Christmas in terms of anticipation and parting, maybe even exceeding the Yule Season in the intake of sweets and treats and all things leading to bad dental visits.  And it’s that celebration, Halloween that is the fondly remembered holiday in this episode of The Primrose Chronicles. From the class rooms to the neighborhood sidewalks...

Send a text In this episode vignettes from his Boy Scout experience, short as it perhaps was.  In the responses to the post on Facebook teasing this installment of The Primrose Chronicles, dozens of folks spoke of the special place Scouting for both boys & girls positively played in their hearts and thoughts even today.  It is hoped, now it is up and available, it will match the anticipation w...

Send a text The Christmas Classic, A Christmas Story, actually offers several sub-plots that are reminiscent of the incidents in the  childhood of many.  Such is the case for Ralphie’s yellow-eyed nemesis and a singular event in this episode of TPC.  SPOILER ALERT - Ralphie comes across in his story better than the narrator does in his, but it should prove to be an enjoyable tale, nonetheless.  It...

Send a text Riverside Amusement Park in Indianapolis closed for good in 1970 & was demolished in 1978.  It’s place among the city’s attractions gone but not forgotten is revisited in this installment of The Primrose Chronicles podcast lore.  So sit back and listen as host & narrator, Marty Young, recalls the sights, sounds & smells of the Circle City’s singular place for thrill rides f...

Send a text There’s a lot of history that took place in a pharmacy.  OK, not “a lot” but enough to hopefully draw the listener into this wistful tale about a staple of any mid-century neighborhood, the corner drug store.  Not just the Rx provider for families in the 50’s & 60’s. Its  aisles & shelves were a local connection with the greater world abroad.  Don’t believe that?  Then I challe...

Send a text It’s a rather cryptic title  to introduce a very impacting element of mid 20th century youth culture.  Listeners  will have to discover for themselves the connection between title and telling as Episode 19 of TPC examines the changing landscape of music, radio and personalities in Indianapolis. 1955-1965.  Seen through the eyes, ears and experiences of The Primrose Chronicles storytell...

Send a text Well before DoorDash, GrubHub and UberEats, there was Pizza Delivery.  episode 18 introduces the listener to one pioneer of that effort, the host and narrator of The Primrose Chronicles podcast.  His training, his delivery secrets and one example of the perils of the trade comprise this half hour installment.  Sound boring and an exaggerated review of its content.  Listen in for yourse...

Send a text The host and narrator of this Primrose Chronicles series will admit this was the installment he was most looking forward to writing, recording and sharing.  It is a story that centers on ONE day, Sept 3, 1964 when Indianapolis, IN became the hub and heart of the contemporary music scene, hosting not one but two concerts of the Beatles.  This is a first person account of one teens very...

Send a text This is a unadvertised bonus bonus episode made available initially to members of the Fans of Primrose Chronicles Facebook page.  It tells of the narrator and host’s years attending the Indiana State Fair in the early 60’s from the events described in Episode 16 during his Family Years until Episode 17 recounting the singular night The Beatles Were at the Fair.  It’s a thank you  to th...

Send a text Episode 16 is the first of two installments that centers on the Indiana State Fair seen thru the eyes of an elementary age boy, mid 20th century, attending the annual event in the awkward time of having to accompany his family but desiring to experience ALL it’s sights and sounds on his own with his buddies.  Whatever your state heritage, this chapter of TPC will resonate with any and...