Guy Lombardo Sends His Best

After the ball dropped in Times Square, Boomba Roast Beef Grandma, Ralph & brother Jerry followed suit!

Happy New Year to all you Kids out there! Wishing you a real nice 2011!

Ralph Opens for the Koestner Sisters

 

Second-grader Ralph warms up the Junior Sodalists of Our Lady at their Tacky Party (a suitable forum perhaps for our young orator)!

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A Busy Christmas!

 

And by busy, I mean that suit! Jan, doing her best Judy Collins, and Ralph, cuddling Topo Gigio, sing carols under the Christmas ball-yetas!

Merry Christmas from the "Once a Kid" gang!

Ralph Shoots a Bear

 

1967:  Ralph and his parents visit Yellowstone Park. Ralph stumbles across a bear leaning against a tree. Years later, they would be reunited when Ralph attends a taping of the Conan O'Brien show.

The Cross-Country Barnstormers

 

1968: On the San Francisco leg of Ralph & Red's Cross-Country American Adventure, the boys stop in Chinatown for a novelty photograph.

1996: Meeting up again in New York, Red presents Ralph a framed & autographed copy of the historic pose.

The Author

Is this the "Garrison Keillor of the the Bronx"? Well, that's the buzz about town!

Hee Haw! Hee Haw!

 

Our author and intrepid traveler finds Dominick the Christmas Donkey in Greece, far from the hills of Brook-a-leen!