The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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Hat’s Off to the Producers of “The Golden Age”

Sometimes I miss them so much I can’t stand it. I love them so much. Mom and Dad. I dream of them, and hope that when I die the dream goes on.

Mom placing me in the crib beneath the pictures painted by Dad. Dad reading B’rer Rabbit to me as I drift off. Pre-Little League days, Dad and me playing catch across the street, between the parked cars, me wearing his glove for a hard rubber ball. Mom taking me by the hand to Woolworth’s where I help her shop and get a toy, like the horse race game. Mom and me skipping down the street to the library.

There were no worries then. They and their generation took all the junk away, and created the path to “The Golden Age,” the 1950’s.

Mickey Mantle, Mighty Mouse, Captain Midnight, My Little Margie, Jackie Gleason,

It was a Saturday morning in 1953, and the sun rose over the neat rows of brick apartment houses in Bayonne, New Jersey. The White’s modest home, with its blue Chevy parked in front and a