A personal, historical and nostalgic look back at what a Nashville kid's life was like growing up during the 1940s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. This is the second collection of the author's factual stories and vintage photographs, which first appeared in The Nashville Retrospect newspaper. From the post-war period through the wonderful "Baby Boomer" years, it describes, in detail, the songs, events and places that made those decades some of the best of times. You will "roll a yard" and go cruising, dance to an American Bandstand-like television show, dig inside those boxes of Frosted Flakes for elusive free toys, take a ride with the milkman, and scurry outside to get a Popsicle from the ice cream man. In here is the lost art of flying a kite in the 1950s and getting dropped off by your folks at the local movie house. Ever hear of stuffing a phone booth or streaking? That is in here too. Not only that, but learn what happens when a kid scribbles on a television trying to help Winky Dink escape. All this and more awaits. Now get ready for that trip back to a special time and place. A place called "Yesterdays".
About the Author: Tom Henderson 111 is the classic Baby Boomer. Born in 1946 in Nashville, Tennessee his reflections of growing up in a time long gone first surfaced in the "Nashville Retrospect" newspaper where he has been the featured, monthly, nostalgic columnist since it's inception in 2009. His first book, "When I Was A Kid-Growing up in Nashville from the 40s to the 70s" made the local best seller list and continues to achieve rave reviews, not only locally but regionally as well. His personal stories of grade school shenanigans, coming of age adolescent parties and music, and descriptions of riding bicycles, leaving rubber on neighborhood streets, walks to your local drugstore, trips to those drive-in movies and others, bring back what he calls the best of times to all of those that read his books. He was an on-air contributor to the NPT series "Nashville, The 20th Century in Photographs, Volume II" and has moderated and been a frequent panelist for the "Green Hills Historic Homecoming" events for several years. Throughout his monthly columns in the Nashville Retrospect and in his previous "When I Was A Kid", and the newly released "Yesterdays" a common theme winds throughout; A lamenting of the disappearance of the neighborhood fields, playgrounds, and schools, and the fading away of the wholesome times that surrounded his youth. Married to the same girl since 1967, he and his wife have 3 sons and 5 grand children. He also has 2 older sisters. He received a basketball scholarship to a small school in Florida after which he enlisted in the US Army. He became a Vietnam veteran with the Medical Corps from 1968-9. He subsequently attended Peabody College(now part of Vanderbilt) for a summer before moving to Memphis and graduating from Memphis State University in 1973. He and his family currently reside back in his home town of Nashville, Tennessee.