Who remembers the “Wabac”[1] Machine? I do and it was just about to crank up when we returned to the States after living in Hawaii in the late ‘50s.

I’d like to use that machine now to teleport us back in time. Not to the early 60’s when the writers of Rocky and Bullwinkle initially took literary license to invent that marvelous machine but to a time a tad earlier. To the mid 50’s and to the time that the events surrounding my opportunity to pilfer treasure first began to unfold.

It’s a story, like many that were told in the adolescence of TV of good versus evil, told within 30 minutes inclusive of at least 2 commercials, and with a happy ending. Mine’s the same but with one...