Judy was going through some keepsakes yesterday and she came into my den toting this magazine.
Now that's pretty cool.
A Collier's Magazine with a great looking blonde on the cover.
But that's not the best part.
Let me zoom in a little for you.
Yeah, check out the date on it, not to mention the price.
But that's still not the best part and I know what you're thinking.
That sub-headline about "The Struggle Against Franco Still Goes On" would be it, right?
Some of us remember a program called "NBC's Saturday Night" that first came on our screens in 1975 and featured the catchphrase "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead", which made fun of the news story that went on for weeks about the impending death of the Spanish strongman.
Incidentally that program later became known as Saturday Night Live.
But to get back to the subject at hand, no, that's not what made the discovery of this magazine so important to me.
The true gold, as they say, came in an advertisement on page 57.
Behold!
Baseball Steve has been calling me "Old Taylor" for decades.
And for years I took it as a mild insult.
But now, lo these many, many years later, I realize that he meant it as a compliment all along.
