1940s Archives - Bill Windsor

William Michael Windsor is 74-years-old

YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLDER WHEN… YOUR BIRTHDAY GIFTS ARE A DIAPER GENIE AND A BIB…

AND YOU HAD TO BUY THEM FOR YOURSELF!

It happened — October 2, 2022.

YES, TODAY IS Bill Windsor‘s BIRTHDAY.

Funny how things work. I awakened at 2:48 a.m. Eastern Time just a few minutes ago.

At 2:48 a.m. in Columbus, Georgia a few years back, Mary Johnson Windsor gave birth to William Michael Windsor. Proud papa, Walter Michael Windsor, was a most willing participant.

Just a week before, my Mom was nine months pregnant in Hollywood, California. Dad accepted a job as General Manager of WGBA Radio in Columbus, Georgia.

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Facebook just zapped the story I wrote claiming it violated Terms, so I guess I have to re-write. Grrrr. I sued Facebook in 2013 for deleting my account claiming it promoted “nudity, pornography, and solicitation of sex.” It was about corrupt judges!

I can’t keep my eyes open, so I will rewrite what Facebook eliminated. There is a brief story written years ago on BillWindsor dot com

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Back to Hollywood….

Nine-month-pregnant Mom and Dad, who knew nothing about mothers and babies and childbirth, hopped into their car and drove 2,178 miles from Hollywood to Columbus, Georgia.

I was almost born in Show-Me-Where-She-Danced, Arizona when Dad hit a cow crossing the road in the wee hours of the morning.

But they made it to Columbus, and Dad checked us into the local motel.

I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. This was very fitting since my Dad was born on a Gasless Sunday during World War I. Taxis and cars were not allowed that day, so Grandpa called an ambulance. All the ambulances were busy, so Grandma, Grandpa, and Walter-to-be were taken to the hospital in New York City in a hearse.

I got short-changed with a plain old ambulance. LOL.

We were living in a motel when Mom went into labor. Dad didn’t want his son to come home from the hospital to a motel room, so he raced out and rented a home at 2222 Buena Vista Road, Columbus, Georgia.

I was born at 2:48 a.m. on October 2, 1948. I’ve tried to keep that secret over the years, but there it is.

I feel 30 on the inside, except for Cognitive Decline, but I feel 100 on the outside since a Boise Cascade 18-wheeler hit me at 70-miles-per-hour in an accident in which I could have easily died. I can barely walk, and the corrupt judge hasn’t set a trial date. I figure Boise Cascade owes me a few million. I’ll trade in the Van Down by the River II and get a one-story house with a full-time female caregiver.

Now, I may not be 74 because my 11-year-old girl friend at Sam’s says I look 58 to her.

I’m celebrating today with THREE (3) football games — Cowboys, Cardinals, and Chiefs followed by a long-overdue evening in the Laundromat.

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Headed back to bed, and I fell and couldn’t get up. I didn’t have my cane and wasn’t wearing my noisemaker and strobe light. Finally managed to get upright after another scary fall.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!#$#@!^

Billy Windsor in 1949 – Months 4 to 15

Someone holding Billy Windsor in air
Walter Windsor pulling Billy in little red wagon
Smiling Billy Windsor on pillow - 1949
Billy Windsor smiling but blurry in 1949
Billy Windsor with punch toy in 1949
windsor bill 1949 Portrait of Billy 1949
Billy Windsor held by mother Mary January 1949
Billy Windsor in walker in 1949
Grandpa Johnson holding Billy Windsor with Grandma Johnson
Billy Windsor floating - 1949
Blurry Billy Windsor 1949
Billy Windsor with daddy Walter Windsor in yard in 1949
Billy Windsor strolling in 1949
Billy Windsor propped up as if sitting in 1949
Billy Windsor on his stomach on couch in 1949
Billy Windsor on dark blanket on grass in 1949
Billy Windsor on blanket in 1949
Billy Windsor looking up from stroller in 1949
Billy Windsor in stroller in 1949
Billy Windsor in crib in shade in 1949
Billy Windsor in crib in 1949
Billy Windsor in 1949 with father Walter Windsor at 8-months 18-days
Billy Windsor held up by father Walter Windsor in 1949
Billy Windsor being pushed in stroller by mother Mary Windsor in 1949
Baby Billy Windsor in 1949
Baby Billy Windsor on couch in 1949
Baby Billy Windsor on pillow and blanket in 1949

Billy Windsor in 1949 – Months 4 to 15.

It was a very good year.

Walter Windsor and Mary Windsor were The Best Parents Ever

Mary Windsor holds smiling Billy in 1948.
Walter Windsor holds baby Billy outside in Columbus in 1948.
Newborn Billy Windsor October 1948
Is this Billy Windsor shooting the finger in 1948
Infant Billy Windsor with giant bottle October 1948.
Infant Billy Windsor on blanket in yard in 1948
Infant Billy Windsor in diapers with blankets 1948
Bill Windsor 1948 birth Front page of New York paper October 1948
Profile of Billy Windsor in October 1948
Billy Windsor Baby Book 1948
Billy Windsor on chair 1948
Billy Windsor in arms of mother Mary Windsor in 1948.
Billy Windsor in hat sleeping in October 1948
Billy Windsor crying in 1948
William Michael Windsor smiling for the camera in 1948
Baby Billy Windsor on pallet on grass in 1948
Baby Billy Windsor in knitted hat in 1948.
windsor bill 1948 Billy in Marys arms 1948
Walter Windsor holds baby Billy Windsor outside in Columbus Georgia in 1948
Mary Johnson Windsor holds smiling Billy in 1948

My Mom was Mary Windsor, and she was the best mom ever! She was a stay-at-home mom.

And my Dad was Walter Windsor. He was the best father ever! Walter Windsor and Mary Windsor were The Best Parents Ever

I was the first-born child. My brother and two sisters followed.

I was a very lucky boy. My siblings and I could not have had a better childhood. My Dad wasn’t paid what he was worth as the manager of television stations while I was a child. I always thought we were “rich.” We weren’t, but we had a very comfortable life.

I, William Michael Windsor, was born in Columbus, Georgia. My Dad and Mom had just driven to Columbus from California with my Mom almost nine months pregnant. Dad became the General Manager of WGBA Radio in Columbus.

We were living in a motel when Mom went into labor. Dad didn’t want his son to come home from the hospital to a motel room, so he raced out and rented this home at 2222 Buena Vista Road, Columbus, Georgia.

Walter Windsor and Mary Windsor were The Best Parents Ever.