Category Archives: Welcome to My World

Naked Ghosts, Stewardesses & Sandburg Village at Night

Posted on December 30, 2010 by jacullman

In the fall of 1969 my older sister Lorraine moved into her first apartment on the twenty-fifth floor of a brand new, gleaming, glass walled high-rise. It was part of the Sandburg Village housing development named after the writer who … Continue reading →

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My Mother’s Strange Rendezvous with Richard Nixon

Posted on December 30, 2010 by jacullman

In November 1968 my parents, sister and I made our annual Thanksgiving trip to Manhattan to visit my senile-but-favorite grandmother, Bobby. She was withering away in a very small-but-immaculate apartment in an elegant building on Park Avenue. It was the … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Public Relations

Posted on December 28, 2010 by jacullman

  Although I was barely out of college, having never worked in a “real” office before, it didn’t take more than a day on the job for me to realize that the firm of Goldwynn, Shipp and Sullivan* had been out of the PR business for … Continue reading →

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