The Wayback Machine

In the Brookings Register recently, mention was made of a Steve Braley, age 65.   Also listed was his address.  Some of us may remember a Steve Braley who was a year ahead of us in school.  He had an older brother Mike, who was a talented athlete, and who graduated in 1959, along with "Skip" Webster and Bob Shelden.  Went for a bike ride today by the address listed in the paper, and a man was retrieving mail from his mailbox.  Politely asked him is he was Steve Braley ,and he replied that he was.  We had a good time reminiscing. 

My memories of him are from Little League baseball.  He played on the Yankees, maybe the best team in 8-10 year old division those years.  The first game our team (Phillies) played in our first year was against them.  They slaughtered us.  They may have scored 20 runs in the first inning against us.  May have to check some old Registers to find out the actual result.


He  moved to Huron about 1961. He recalled some of the basketball players we played against, such as Jim Drake , Perry Danforth, and Bob Martin.  After high school, he lived in Sioux Falls for about 25 years, and has been in Brookings for about 10-15 years.  My other memory of him in our elementary days is that he was in our First Communion class (1959?), pictured below. 

I believe Steve is in the third row, second from the left, between Rick Thompson and Mike McClemans. 

The "Wayback Machine" is a reference to the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show from the 1960's.  If your memory needs refreshing, perhaps this website may help:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Peabody