The 1970’s, 1980’s, and early 1990’s are eternal in an Alternate Universe.
My life in an Alternate Universe, not unlike what I’ve described in these earlier posts The Things That Matter The Most To Have In Order To Have A Happy And Successful Life and Another Post Pertaining To Early Life And Continuous Livelihood; is where my parents and I live together with my paternal grandmother under one roof in a house, and on property like the ones pictured below:
My mother’s family is never in our lives, while we are very close to my father’s family.
Shannon and Ray, Alison and her husband David, and Colin and his wife Sheila each own Motorhomes.
We have more Full-Size Station Wagons (like those on the GM B and Ford Panther Platforms), more Suburbans, more Full-Size 2-Door Utility Vehicles, more Full-Size Vans, more Volkswagens/Audis, and we also have Mercedes-Benzs such as the W201, W124, S124, W126, W140, and the R129.
We also have a Tractor like the one pictured below to tend to all of the property that we live on:
My mother works as a School Bus Driver. My mother’s very top boss, the Director of Transportation; is in our lives quire often. The Director and I remain friends.
My parents and I are each Amateur/Ham Radio Operators, and my parents and I also follow the Commercial Broadcast Radio and Television Industry very closely.
Many, many other people employed in, and associated with the Commercial Broadcast Radio and Television Industry are in our lives.
CBS continues to be owned by the Paley family and is never purchased by Laurence Tisch, Westinghouse; and finally-it’s one time Video division that it had to spin off as a result of the SynFyn rule enacted by the FCC in the 1970’s; Viacom.
ABC continues to be owned by the family of Leonard Goldenson and is never purchased by Capital Cities Communications or the Walt Disney Company.
NBC continues to be jointly owned by the Sarnoff family and Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and it, nor RCA are ever purchased by General Electric (GE); or Comcast.
CBS’s News department continues to be the same as the era of Walter Cronkite, Edward Murrow, Eric Severeid, Douglas Edwards, Dan Rather, Lesley Stahl; and Bob Schieffer.
Roone Arledge continues to serve as the President of both ABC’s Sports and News Departments.
ABC continues to own and operate WXYZ-TV, in addition to WXYZ-AM/WRIF-FM to this day, it would never have to sell the WXYZ stations in order to obtain WPVI-TV and finalize the merger with Capital Cities Communications; and it would continue to own the WXYZ stations in addition to the WABC stations, KABC stations, WLS stations; and the KGO stations, KQV-AM and WDVE-FM (nee KQV-FM), WMAL-FM and WRQX-FM (nee WMAL-FM) all to this very day.
Storer Broadcasting/Communications continues to exist in business, and it continues to own WJBK-TV, WJW-TV/WJKW-TV, WAGA-TV; and WITI-TV. The Storer stations also forevermore continue to be CBS affiliates.
Shari Lewis, Marc Brown, his wife Laurene “Laurie”, and his 3 sisters Kim, Bonnie, and Colleen; and Rick Steves are in our lives.
Whenever Shari Lewis would bring her daughter Mallory over, when, Shannon and Ray, in turn; bring Shari and her sister-in-law and well-regarded Novelist Judith Krantz over. We learn first hand that Mallory is a completely different person when compared to her mother, and to put it at best; that Mallory is also a contemptible person when compared to her mother.
Bob Vila is an acquaintance of ours, and after renting out the prior home in Warren, Michigan; before we put it up for sale on the local Real Estate market, and sell it outright, Bob Vila, his right-hand man Bob Ryley, and a conscripted local Construction firm renovate, add on, and also convert our prior house to a Two-Story home as the subject of half a season of Bob Vila’s own Television Show that he started in 1990 upon leaving PBS’s “This Old House” a year earlier in 1989, “Bob Vila’s Home Again”. The renovation and addition project of our prior home, prior to selling it outright; is not unlike Bob Vila’s projects in the Los Angeles suburb of Malibu, California; and on the shore of Lake Cochituate in the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, which were conversions of Ranch-style Homes into Two-Story Homes that also included additions on the Main Level.
The purpose of this renovation and addition is to make our prior house far more desirable on the local Real Estate market than it being it’s former state as a cookie-cutter small Ranch-style Home on a garden-variety small parcel of land, within a garden-variety subdivision, it was in need of a renovation, anyway; as it was left much in the same way as when it was also constructed in the early 1960’s, and to highlight on National Television the history of the Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, beginning with its foundation as a settlement known as Beebe’s Corners in 1830 as a Carriage Stop between the Detroit city proper and the Detroit suburb of Utica, Michigan; when Beebe’s Corners became Warren Township in 1837, when the Detroit suburb of Centerline broke away from Warren and became a City in its own right in 1936, and the Automotive and Military Vehicle Industries being responsible for transforming the Cities of Warren and Centerline into the sprawling urban areas they are will into the present day, with the construction of the Chrysler Tank Assembly Plant in 1940, and the construction of the General Motors Technical Center in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.
CBS Sports President Neal Pilson, and CBS NASCAR Announcer Ken Squier are also in our lives. CBS Sports, for eternity; has the Television rights to NASCAR.
Whenever we Travel to Vermont by the way of a Recreational Vehicle (RV), whether driving it or towing it, to visit the family that lives in Vermont; we visit Ken Squier at his family’s Radio Station WDEV-AM in Waterbury, Vermont; at his Amateur Automobile Racetrack “Thunder Road” in Barre, Vermont; and at Ken’s house in Stowe, Vermont.
My parents and I also find ourselves wandering around Ken Squier’s Radio Station WDEV-AM in Waterbury, Vermont.
NASCAR Team Owners Bill and Mickey Stavola, Richard Childress, Bud Moore, brothers Glen and Leonard Wood, Jack Roush, Rick Hendrick, Tim Morgan, Larry McClure, Bob Rahilly, Butch Mock, Dick Bahre, Chuck Rider, Hoss Ellington, and Rod Osterlund, Crew Chiefs Ray Evernham, Andy Petree, Larry McReynolds, and Jake Elder, Richard Childress Racing Employee and Tireman Danny “Chocolate” Meyers, Drivers such as Richard and Kyle Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Neil Bonnett, Cale Yarborough, David and Buddy Baker, Bobby and Davey Allison, Jeff and Ward Burton, Rusty Wallace, Bill Elliott, Sterling Marlin, Ricky Craven, Ned and Dale Jarrett, J.D McDuffie, Jimmy Means, Geoff and Brett Bodine, Ernie Irvan, Lake Speed, Rick Mast, Randy LaJoie, Billy Standridge, Rick Wilson, Billy Hagan, Harry Gant, Dave Marcis, Tommy Ellis, Tony Stewart, Charlie Glotzbach, Bobby Issac, and Ricky Rudd are all in our lives.
NASCAR eternally holds onto the ways it had during the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s, when it was a Car enthusiasts club rather than being a cohort to Basketball, Football, Hockey, Baseball, and Soccer/Association Football.
Instead of ever making it into NASCAR, Elliott Sadler, Kevin Harvick, Richard Childress’s grandsons Austin and Tyler Dillon, and Randy LaJoie’s son Corey LaJoie either find themselves being Professional Basketball Players in the NBA, Professional American Football Players in the NFL, or Professional Baseball Players in the MLB.
Additionally, Kevin Harvick might also find himself as a Professional Hockey Player in the NHL.
Instead of ever making it into NASCAR, Indy Car, or Formula 1, Casey Mears, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Jenson Button, Nick Heidfeld, James Hinchcliffe, Robert Wickens, Josef Newgarden, and Conor Daly each find themselves being Professional Basketball Players in the NBA.
Instead of ever making it into NASCAR, Brian Vickers finds himself being a Professional Basketball Player in the NBA, or a Professional Baseball player in the MLB.
Instead of ever making it into NASCAR, Regan Smith finds himself being a Professional Basketball Player in the NBA, a Professional American Football Player in the NFL, or a Professional Hockey Player in the NHL.
In addition to my parents and I concordantly not wanting to have anything to do with my mother’s family, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With The Television Personalities On The Cable Channel HGTV Known As The “Property Brothers”, More Of The Things The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With The “Property Brothers”, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern Formula 1 Driver Nick Heidfeld, And Modern NASCAR Drivers Kevin Harvick And Matt Kenseth, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Elliott Sadler, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne, And Modern Formula 1 Driver Jenson Button, The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Denny Hamlin; and The Things That Two Or More Of The Relatives That I Have Never, Ever Meant; And Never, Ever Want To Have Anything To Do With Have In Common With Modern NASCAR Driver Casey Mears all hold true in an Alternate Universe.
In addition to traveling to Maryland, and touring the Studios of Maryland Public Television (MPT), PBS Television Program ‘To The Contrary’ Hosted By Bonnie Erbe is one acquaintance of ours, and one-time producer of the PBS Television Program “Wall Street Week” hosted by Louis Rukeyser, and the founder and Host of the PBS Television Program “MotorWeek”, John Davis is another acquaintance of ours.
Matthew Parij 
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