Happy Birthday WSM (a little late)
I’ve sorta become a collector of photos of the WSM Tower. I’ve written before about how much and why I love pictures of that tower. I’m crazy about it.
A few weeks back, Mr. Smiff and some of Them were guests on WSM Radio the day they were celebrating the 82nd birthday of the historic radio station. Because Mr. Smiff is getting elderly or because he needs to borrow some of my medicine, he did not mention to me until he was literally on his way to do this interview, that the interview was on the grounds of the WSM tower, a stones throw from my childhood home. Had he not won Entertainer of the Year the night before, I mighta got a little testy with him. I’ve never been on the actual grounds of where the tower sits.
Anyway, my new pal Emy Jo Bellenfant-Bilbrey (Mrs. Keith) said I could show you some pictures she took from that event that day. I’ll show the pictures while I sulk at the same 
time. Even #2 got to go. He was way more impressed with riding in Jamie’s red convertible than anything else.
I LOVE this picture of George Hamilton IV. One of these days, I want a picture of me 
like this.
Oh…Emy Jo is a Williamson County native and has a super cool antique store. She’s having an Open House this weekend. Go read about it here.
My older boys go to Lipscomb Elementary, across the street, and one of their favorite playground games used to be pretending that the tower was about to fall on the playground. I love the tower, too, and I laugh to think about how the Brentwood Planning Commission would respond if someone tried to get it approved today!
That’s where I went to school.
We would stand outside at recess and if it was one of those days where there were some clouds here and there (I don’t know my clouds) they would move and it would look like the tower was falling.
OK, I thought I was the only one who wanted to go there!
I used to make up stuff about it, too. It was always a welcome landmark when we were driving back from my grandparents house in Birmingham.