1957 Mickey Mantle's In Town

May 1957 & Mickey's in town to take a few swings!
Within the first 30 seconds, the audio slows way down for about 10 seconds as Mickey makes his way around home plate in his car: His car? WATCH:

A Dollar's Worth

The caption within the photo tells the story! Click on the photo:
This 1959 "hand made time card," was found in a cabinet in Clara & Dan's garage in 2012. Some 53 years later!

Vintage Audio Downloads

Listen here, or download the clips. Vintage audio from the 70's & 80's.
The download link is below each player. There are a few more down the right column labeled Vintage Audio & linked here:

https://www.box.com/files/0/f/17629136/Loreto
 

One of the funniest radio interviews I ever had. The interview quickly begins to go down hill within 90 seconds: John LaCorte:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16859290-2b1

Mary's Uncle Franny sang this at our wedding. The Larry & Mary Song:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16859280-7ac

Mary dropped an apple in her car. My mother couldn' stop laughing.
Mary's Apple:


http://www.divshare.com/download/16859277-19b

My mother laughs at my father's antics during the 1970's gas crunch:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16859240-ef8

My Mother used to tell everyone Frank Sinatra was her cousin:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16859235-c43

My Mother Laughing:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16859214-48c

The greatest 2 second clip of all time. My mother:

http://www.divshare.com/download/16862126-177

1973. My Mother literally jumps over a chair during a thunderstorm & Harry plays the mandolin. Each is found at the bottom of these two posts.
1973 Audio:
http://tocci.blogspot.com/2008/09/crabbing-at-uncle-harrys.html
http://tocci.blogspot.com/2010/08/vintage-audio-video.html
Audio from Marie's 1969 wedding shower is found near the top in this post:
http://tocci.blogspot.com/2008/09/blizzard-of-69-wedding-videos.html

World War ll Claims a Cedrone, a Tocci & a Parent

I will break this down so it's easy to follow.

WWll claims a Cedrone & a Tocci & then a parent.

The Cedrone Death:
Pompeii Leone was Loreto Cedrone's-sister's son. Killed in action:

The Tocci Death:
John Lawrence Gentile was Loreto Gentile's son. He dies in a secret mission & most likely did not know he was part of it:
My father's mother's maiden name was Gentile. She had a brother Loreto. Loreto Gentile had several children. One son, John Lawrence was on board the SS. Harvey in 1943 when he too was killed in action.
The SS Harvey was in Bari, Italy with a cargo only a select few knew about. Disguised were 500 tons of mustard gas bombs.

The bombs were meant only as a precaution to be used if the Germans resorted to chemical warfare.

The Commander wanted to unload the bombs quickly but since only he & a few others knew they existed he didn't want to draw attention to the cargo, so they sat in the harbor for 5 days.

The German air force found & attacked all the ships in the harbor unaware of the SS Harvey's cargo. Once hit
, the ship exploded disappearing instantly in a huge mushroom-shaped fireball:

Bari Italy was under the jurisdiction of British law. Churchill destroyed all evidence of mustard gas deaths & instead listed them as,
" burns due to enemy action." Churchill's secrecy caused more deaths as victims especially Italian civilians died from lack of proper treatment.

Watch the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NonWxm4aYHc

Loreto Gentile:
In February 1944 following the death of his son, Loreto Gentile , distraught while installing a gutter on a home, slipped, falling & hitting a fence killing him instantly.



Youtube Channel


I've made every video available in playlists on youtube. It will link you to the channel as it does here:http://www.youtube.com/user/8mmhomemoviechannel