In Bill’s honor
Thank you to Dennis and Sarah Koller for remembering Bill today and laying a wreath in his honor at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in Arlington, Texas.
Never Forget, December 7, 1941
There are some dates you never forget. Bill McGee never forgot Sunday, December 7, 1941… I was sixteen and had dropped out of high school to help support my mother and three siblings. I was living with the Reverend Hawley and his family at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington, just east of Portland, Oregon.…
The Thanksgiving when no one showed up
Thanksgiving Day, 1985. For our first Thanksgiving in our new home in Incline Village, Nevada, Bill and I invited Bill’s ski cabin group, San Francisco friends who had been sharing a ski lease at Lake Tahoe for thirteen winters since 1972. Bill and I woke up on Thanksgiving morning to three feet of fresh snow…
Veterans Day – A Day Late
To all military veterans or their children or grandchildren! You don’t have to be a celebrity to write your military memoirs. Preserving your stories about your military service is a priceless gift for your family…but sometimes it takes a checklist to get started. Your free copy of award-winning military historian Bill McGee’s two-page “How To…
If these Mapes champagne glasses could talk
What a surprise from Fedex today… two champagne glasses from Reno’s Mapes estate sent to us by fellow Reno history buffs, Deb Wiger Geraghty and James Stavena. As Bill and I toasted each other with sparkling rose, and wondered whose lips – famous and infamous – had sipped from these glasses, Bill once again told…
Re-send w/slight correction – Happy Birthday to Bill McGee on his 94th
Pardon this re-send, but some blog recipients reported to me that the image did not have the red play arrow in the center, indicating the image was a video (even though the red play arrow showed when I previewed the post before sending). So click anywhere on the image to view “Reno Memories” – a…
Happy Birthday to Bill McGee on his 94th
Click to view “Reno Memories” – a special, 7-min featurette produced by Cloverland for Twentieth Century Fox to accompany Fox’s 2007 re-release on DVD of their 1939 film Charlie Chan in Reno. Available in the box set, The Charlie Chan Collection, Volume 4.
“You could say I owe my success in the broadcasting industry to Bill McGee.”
August 2019 – Sandra Younts, president of Capital Co-op Consultants in Washington, D.C., is recognized in the broadcasting industry as a success story in broadcast co-op and vendor sales specialist. Sandra’s career path first crossed with Bill McGee’s in the 1970s. Bill was busy at the helm of his company, Broadcast Marketing Company, in…
Hot off the press! “How I Learned to Sell and Make Deals”
“Bill, how would you like to make more money in a month selling Willys Jeeps than I bet you make in a year of cowboying?” July 2018 – Award-winning author William L. McGee opens his fifth memoir with the event in 1950 that changed the course of his life from cowboying in the West to…
Cover reveal – “How I Learned to Sell and Make Deals, 1950-1958”
Full cover spread Scheduled for release July 2019