Articles by Art Fettig

James Brown, the old Blues singer, wrote and sang a song titled “Papa’s got a brand new bag”. I sort of associated that song with the different brands I have had in my career. For […]

Did you ever get to laughing so hard that you had to get down on the floor and get into a fetal position just to survive?  Both my musical friend Greg Brayton and I got […]

Hot has been the topic of conversation these recent days and my memory went back to 1951 when I was a G.I. at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. We were training to shoot enemy aircraft […]

Oh the stuff I find around our house when I am looking for something else. Did you ever do that.? The same is true with my computer. I spent a couple of hours the other […]

Of 1776, what was the spirit? Revolution? Freedom? Independence? No, I think the prevailing spirit Was selling Selling one another. Selling like selling Had never been done before. Or since. Salespeople saying, “But as for […]

What I bought: A precious little porcelain doll dressed in a pretty dress and seated in an aged wooden snow sled, a tiny classic car set, a little stuffed pillow saying “You’re A Very Special Neighbor” […]

Just the other day I asked myself, “What do you want to be when you grow up, Art?”  Here I am almost 90 and I still don’t have a good answer to that question. I […]

What with Memorial Day and D Day recently, my thoughts drifted back to a man named Glen Miller. He had a band in the late 1930;s and early 40’s that was #1 in the nation. […]