Have Fun At Work Day!

Speaking of cuddly things, meet Pete -

He’s a schnauzer mix and very well behaved and is anxious to meet you at the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley.  He’s looking for his permanent home. 

3551 Bataan Memorial Las Cruces, NM 88012
(575) 382-0018

 

1785: The first state university in America, the University of Georgia, was chartered in Athens.

1968 : This family trio performed their first American concert at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, earning them $50,000. Pretty decent paycheck back then but they’d earn a ton more in the years to come – the BeeGees.

If you think they look pretty young in the picture above, catch this one -

The

ushered in the new era for Motown. And it all started with a whoopin’  Four weeks after Diana Ross and the Supremes had their twelfth and final number one single which closed out the sixties, a new decade and a new group opened the new decade with their first of many charttoppers. They were sons of a Gary, Indiana steelworker who always dreamed of a career in music. In his spare time the father played in a band called the Falcons. He came home one night to find his second oldest son fooling around with his guitar. After giving him a whipping, he wanted to know how well his son could play. Rather well, as it turned out and that led to the formation of a group. Their first professional gig was a a Gary nightclub for which they were paid $8. But one thing led to another and soon they came to the attention of Barry Gordy, Jr. During this week in 1970 they landed their first number one song: the Jackson Five (I Want You Back) (Tito was the one that got that whoopin’)