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Smokey Sings and Speaks

By HA On December 6, 2020 · Add Comment
Please read the attached article that was published in the latest issue of The Week Magazine. Smokey Robinson is telling it like it is. We’re still a racist nation and the current administration hasn’t helped. Are you old enough to remember the 50’s & the 60’s? Elvis and Buddy Holly started in the 50’s. There [...]
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PTL Days

By HA On October 12, 2020 · Add Comment
On Oct 6, 31 years ago, the court house in Charlotte had media from all over the country covering the Jim Bakker trial for fraud and conspiracy. I was about a year away from ending a 20 year career at WBT, and in 1985, I started a limousine service for my second act. When PTL [...]
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Mt. Rushmore of Charlotte Broadcasting

By HA On September 27, 2020 · Add Comment
This quartet of old men has jokingly been called the “Mt. Rushmore of Charlotte Broadcasting” — Ty Boyd, Robert D. Raiford, Doug Mayes, and HA Thompson. We went to lunch on occasion, and the last time Doug was absent, so the other 3 musketeers connected at Charlotte- Jocks and Jills. We fist bumped before fist bumping [...]
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Darlington Raceway EST. 1950

By HA On September 4, 2020 · Add Comment
This year Darlington Raceway is 70 years old…1950. The Korean War started in 1950 when Harry Truman was President. Darlington is one of the original tracks that birthed NASCAR into a Southern sport of immense proportions. The race is run this Sunday at 6pm. I’ve lived in the Carolinas more than 50 years and got [...]
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I Love Beach Music

By HA On June 24, 2020 · Add Comment
All of us have suffered in different ways during this 3 month pandemic shutdown. One of the lesser tragedies is the loss of BEACH MUSIC and the places we go to listen and dance. Music has been my life for many years, and I’ve been in the Carolinas to witness the growth of this popular [...]
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Memorial Weekend 2020

By HA On May 30, 2020 · Add Comment
Wow! Summer is here. Myrtle Beach went from nobody to EVERYBODY. The parking lots, hotels, and restaurants went from empty to packed in two days. Ocean Annie’s Beach Bar is the home of music, pitchers of drinks, corn hole games, sunshine & sand. North Myrtle Beach is not far behind. Sunday mornings offer religious services [...]
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Vegas Baby!

By HA On May 30, 2020 · Add Comment
The virus has clobbered everybody, including the gambling casinos in Las Vegas where the unemployment rate in April was 28%. Most of the time, Vegas is untouchable with 3 million visitors a month. A billion dollars in revenue is gambled every 3 months. They can’t spell the word ‘recession.’ Over 30+ years in the Limo-Bus [...]
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Beach Music SOS

By HA On May 19, 2020 · Add Comment
I haven’t touched my SOS card since January. It was supposed to get a lot of use last month for “Spring Safari,” but the virus shut the music down, and kept about 14,000 who come to party home. That really put a hurtin’ on my music soul. I miss slidin’ on down to Main St. [...]
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Stimulation City

By HA On April 22, 2020 · Add Comment
Stimulation is missing,So we create the “Blues.” I took a walk to lift my spirits,And it worked…except for my eyesight –That kept reminding me of things gone wrong.  Barefoot Landing is “Stimulation City.”Shops and food, music and entertainment,And it’s gone.  What I saw was… Primitive art on the wall at House of Blues, A squirrel looking for a [...]
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FORE!

By HA On March 3, 2020 · Add Comment
This is a golf ball that I have played with for 45 holes. I have a high handicap, and I’m not a good golfer anymore, but it’s a big accomplishment not to lose a golf ball in 45 holes, considering the woods and all the hazards beckoning around every bend. I have hit it into [...]
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