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Alan Sivell's A Boomer Life

by Alan R Sivell

I’m one of 74,000,000 Baby Boomers. I am writing my life story (on my blog) and narrating it (here) because if I don’t, the only earthly notice of my middle-class, middle-American existence might be a feature story in a nursing home’s newsletter when I reach 110: “Last Surviving Woodstock Attendee: ‘It was a hot, muddy mess.’”

Episodes

Chapter 8: A Working Man

16m · Published 05 Jul 21:56

At first, Doom wasn’t going to pay me anything to mow the lawn. Then he settled on 35 cents. Thus began my life of work at the age of 9. The neighbors paid more: I earned 75 cents from the Herman’s family in the house to the north […]

Chapter 7: Mom Does it All

14m · Published 27 Jun 23:53

After Doom got back from the Pacific, my parents were married in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the majestic New York City landmark, on September 28, 1946. Doom was lucky that both my mother AND grandmother said yes. My grandmother thought he seemed like a nice enough young man but […]

Chapter 6: Stolen Cars and a Stabbing

23m · Published 21 Jun 02:44

I had said I wasn’t going to be Page’s bagman ever again. But about a year after the Hard Roll Heist, there was one other escapade that he managed to entangle me in. The two of us were hanging out talking and playing records on the third floor […]

Chapter 5: The Italian Influence

11m · Published 15 Jun 02:14

My mom’s parents came to America on a boat. Not the boat that stopped at Ellis Island, my grandmother was quick to point out. Those were the peasants, she said. Our people paid full fare on their boat and had their own cabins and job prospects when they […]

Chapter 4: Page Finds Trouble

12m · Published 07 Jun 17:01

The first time I heard about the “free” hard rolls, I was in the back yard with a bunch of friends. Doom had put up a monkey swing in the big elm. He tied a thick rope to a branch high up in the tree and at the […]

Chapter 3: Becoming Doom

9m · Published 31 May 18:18

Mickey Mantle should have been my dad. Then I could have been hanging around the New York Yankee clubhouse in 1961, the Yankees’ greatest season. At least, that’s what I thought when I was 10. My dad, about age 3. His mother used to enter him in “cute […]

Chapter 2: Page

15m · Published 24 May 17:24

I still miss my brother. It’s been so long now – more 50 years – that initially it’s hard to remember anything but the great adventures we shared. He pushed me to do things I was too afraid to do on my own initiative. Without him, I probably […]

My Neighbor Takes My Picture (Includes Chapter 1)

7m · Published 19 May 00:00

My neighbor (Stephen Folker of Giraffe Photography) was experimenting with his new camera and grabbed this shot. I’d make it the cover of my latest album … if I could sing. Or if I could play something other than a record player. But what about using it for […]

Ya Gotta Talk to People

0s · Published 26 May 16:12

At the Yankee Sox game at U.S. Cellular, guy in front of me (wearing a Mattingly shirt), tries to get a Der-ek Jeter chant going. When it fails, I lean forward to tell him I’m with him in spirit. We exchange pleasantries and I notice from […]

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He’s Not As Bad! (This is a test!)

0s · Published 23 Apr 19:06

Alan Runs For Best Feature Reporter

Alan Sivell's A Boomer Life has 30 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 8:01:08. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 4th, 2024 09:27.