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Paul is Vice President of Content for Mid-West Family celebrating his 50th year in broadcasting and celebrated his 25th year in Southwest Michigan in 2021. He has been hosting the COSY Morning Show since 1996. He is married to wife Anne 20 years with 5 grown children/stepchildren and nine grandchildren. Paul is President of the We Care Community Resource Center, a past President of Kiwanis, has chaired the Van Buren County United Way Campaign, was awarded the South Haven Chamber Business Person of the year, Community Impact Award and Living Legend Award as well as Citizen of the Year Award by South Haven Rotary Club. He attends South Haven’s Peace Lutheran Church, love family time, music, theatre and time on the water!
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026 1938 – The first toothbrush with nylon bristles was introduced. Before this, toothbrushes used animal hair. This invention changed oral hygiene forever! 1924 President Calvin Coolidge delivered the
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 1874 The game of Tennis was patented by its inventor Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of Great Britain. 1945 The famous raising of the flag on Mt. Suribachi,
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 1942 Edward “Butch O’Hare” single-handedly attacked nine Japanese bombers, shooting down five, saving the USS Lexington from certain destruction. These actions made him the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace, and
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Feb. 18, 2026 1908 The first postage stamps were issued in rolls. They were designed for use in vending machines. 1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026 1878 Thomas Edison received a patent for the first phonograph. 1945 U.S. troops landed on Iwo Jima. With more than 7,000 U.S. troops killed, it was one
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 1873 The first gaslight streetlights were lit in Baltimore Maryland, the first city to be lit by gaslight at night. 1933 The Blaine Act was passed by
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday. Feb. 16, 2026 1868 The BPOE Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized. 1937 Nylon was patented, by Dr. Wallace Carothers of the du Pont Co. Its first commercial
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 1917 Mata Hari was captured in France during World War I. She was sentenced to death as a German spy. During her execution she refused a blindfold
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born. He was the 16th President of the United States, known for leading the country through the Civil War and abolishing slavery, was
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Feb. 11, 2026 1809 Robert Fulton patented the steamboat. 1953 Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan” premiered. 1938 BBC TV aired television’s first science fiction program. A 35-minute adaptation of a play
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 1935 – Discovery of Element 94 (Plutonium): American physicist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team begin work on discovering plutonium. 1971 – Apollo 14 Moon landing: Astronauts
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 1850 The push-key adding machine was patented, by Du Bois Parmelee. 1943 American businessman Nolan Bushnell was born. He founded the Atari video game company in 1972
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Feb. 4, 202 1789 George Washington was elected president with 100% of the electoral vote. He was the first and only president to do so. 1962 St. Jude Children’s Hospital
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026 1870 The 15th amendment was ratified, giving African Americans the right to vote. 1913 The 16th amendment was ratified, giving the U.S. Congress the power to collect
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Mar. 2, 2026 1750 Benjamin Franklin proposed the use of lightning rods to protect houses in a letter to his colleague Peter Collinson. 1933 The movie King Kong, about a giant ape
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 Groundhog Day! 1876 Baseball’s National League was founded. 1913 Grand Central Station opened in New York City. More than 100,000 people visited on its opening day. 1914
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026 1845 The poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror, instantly making him famous, although it did not bring him much financial success.
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” Weds., Jan. 28, 2026 1915 The U.S. Coast Guard was established, when Congress combined the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service. 1978 The TV series Fantasy Island debuted on ABC. “Boss, de plane, de
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026 1880 Thomas Edison was granted a patent for an electric incandescent light. 1948 The first of John Mullin’s invention, the magnetic tape recorder was sold in
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Jan. 26, 2026 1784 Ben Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter expressing his disapproval of the eagle as our nation’s symbol. He thought the bald eagle was of bad
