“Tomorrow, We Really Sing, Loud and Clear”

Feb 1st “Tomorrow, We Really Sing, Loud and Clear”

“I Took This Picture!”

1948 Family 001

My Daddy always looks like Clark Gable in Any Number can Play – movie.

My Dad always has a cigarette in the mouth, no matter what he is doing and or when you see Clark Gable in the movies smoking – you see his twin – my Dad – they are both from Ohio!

Clark Gable, birthdate Feb. 1st, My Dad’s Feb. 2nd. This picture was taken in front of German St. Vincent Orphan Home – 1948.

L – R Thomas – Denny Sr. – Denny Jr. – Marie McClarren (Mary Ellen with the camera)

“Happy Birthday Daddy!”

February 2nd is Daddy’s Birthday! This picture is of us during the early 1940s – before WWII was over and there were more people in uniform.

With Saint Louis Union Station in the downtown area – the Army Finance Center going strong – my Dad was in step with the best!

Clark Gable – 1901

One of Hollywood’s foremost leading men during the first half of the 20th century, Gable was known for films like Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, and The Misfits.

…and just one more… a real good movie that I love to watch … as it reminds me of my Dad.

This is a very old memory of the movie, “Any Number Can Play” – “Clark Gable” – born the same week as my DAD and in the same neighborhood – they always looked so much alike – especially with that cigarette, in the mouth and just seem… to always be smoking!

This profile of “Clark Gable” reminds me of my DAD more so, than any of the photos that I have – the 1940’s were the years when they could have passed for twins.

– but, as LIFE has it – we each go on to that path in LIFE – something maybe, for the good and sometimes even very much better times –

and… in most cases – the too much of this, and or the too much of that – turns even the best of terrific shaped bodies, into a plain old worn out … and not too good of a shape, leaving nothing much worthwhile, for that which we always thought … really was not putting our lives in that better position … for a really good and happy – long life.

Prepare to SING…“Happy Birthday to DADDY”