“Clean Up Your Own Backyard“ is a 1969 song recorded by Elvis Presley and released as a single FIFTY YEARS AGO! The song was featured in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It). Written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange and published by Gladys Music, Inc., it was released as a 7″ single in 1969 but not featured on any studio album. It was later included on the budget RCA Camden album “Almost In Love”. The […]

Benjamin Franklin Junior High School in Broadmoor Village, CA is part of the Jefferson Elementary School District which is a K-8 school district headquartered in Daly City, San Mateo County, California, and serving Daly City, Colma, Broadmoor, and part of Pacifica. I attended Ben Franklin from Sept. 1967 to June 1969 going through 7th & 8th Grades, graduating in 1969 FIFTY YEARS AGO! This is the view of Ben Franklin from Garden Village Elementary School. Above was my Block that […]

This is a storefront on the North-East corner of Mission St. & Geneva Ave. in San Francisco. It is currently a Check Cashing business but back in the 1960’s & 1970’s it was a record store called “The Record Changer”. The actual address is 5129 Mission Street. San Francisco, CA. 94112. My sister Ginny would take me there occasionally to back order old records that you couldn’t find in stores that only maintained current stock. The guy was hardly ever […]