Happy 2017 Everyone! The year America will become great again! And as exciting as that prospect is (no doubt featuring privatized social security and war up the wazoo), I am instead turning to the past and featuring a photograph of my mother Mary (on the left) and her cousin Marie on a long ago New Year's Eve. Marie and my mother were very close. In fact, Marie and her husband Ed - who like my father Nelson was also a dentist - were the ones who introduced my mother and father to each other. I have no idea what year this photo was taken, but I suspect it was probably taken at Marie and Ed's home in Evergreen Park, Illinois back in the 1950s. I was never crazy about Evergreen Park, or for that matter the two-flat Marie and Ed lived in - Marie's parents Al and Irene (my mother's aunt) lived in the flat upstairs - but I fondly remember the Hamm's beer sign they had behind the basement bar, called a Scene-O-Rama Rotating Scroll, showing the beautiful "land of sky blue waters." I loved starring at it, as well as watching the Hamm's Beer cartoon bear commercials on television. You can buy one of those beers signs (in excellent condition, I might add) on e-bay these days for a mere $1,200, or you can watch some of those classic cartoon bear commercials for free at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHsoW6CTjM. It's your choice, people. Happy New Year!
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