And good morning at $707 at WRJ and local news and timeless hits. And now we're going to
head back for the 1950s in our DeLorean.
What a way to travel back in time. I remember the time machine movie here that Cherry was
in with this spinning thing, a DeLorean. That's the way to travel. You know what the original
time device was and back to the future. No refrigerator. But then Robert Temeckis was
afraid the kids would try to hide in the refrigerator and lock themselves in there soon.
Yeah, lock yourself in a fridge. He's pushed the door open, don't you? Yeah, opens up.
I know. Anyway, our information there.
We're at Camel G and Forty and Jim Basire here. We're talking about back in time. We're
in our way back machine this morning back to the 1950s. What was seen watching on television
in the 1950s. We did part one to this. Now part two. Let's get us started.
Well, thank you, Don. Carolyn, I always love to share our memories of growing up and
recene during the 50s and 60s. And yes, we'll be talking about TVs back in the early 50s.
We had one TV as we mentioned last month. Last month we remembered our favorite kid shows
like the Mickey Mouse Club and Howdy Doody and a few more. But today, knowing that our
family watched together around our one TV set, usually in the living room, we usually
watched what our parents wanted to watch. And now we'll share those pleasant memories.
Just a second before we share those memories.
Okay, that kind of set us up now. Okay, continue. Alright, so we're all sitting around
the living room watching our only TV set and watching some great family shows. Yes, Jim,
you know, we said last month, too, that we, when we started into these TV memories, those
screens were small. But boy, do they have big cabinet furniture watching those small screens.
We had a thing called snow quite often. And Jim, wasn't your father the expert in your
house on the rabbit ears? He would try. And then we kids, you know, we didn't have big sectional
sofas. We were on the floor and we were edging as close to the TV screen as we could be until
our mother said we were going to go blind. We were going to wreck our eyes. Did your mother
say that? Oh, yes, if we said too close, or we watched in a dark, right? But how we loved
sitting together actually, even now possibly we had left the dining room table or the kitchen
table. We now had gravitated to TV tables. What a change. So anyway, we still loved the shows,
even though a lot of them were our parents choices. And Jim, now what was your family's favorite?
Well, of course, that would have to be Lauren Swellke. That was on every Saturday evening from
1951 to 1971. Remember, he would always say, a one and a two. And he would have a lot of
different musicians on there. Myron Floren, of course, was the accordionist. He had Bobby and
Sissy or Bobby and Barbara, two different dancers. You know Bobby, which TV show he was the way
to show you. He was a monster. And I think he married Myron Floren's daughter, if I'm not
mistaken, right? Joanne Castle. They were sponsored by Dodge and Gerrit Hall. Gerrit Hall.
They needed it. They needed it for all the dancing. Yeah, big giant signed Gerrit Hall in
bag of the room. Right. Now, they had the Lennon sisters on quite often. And I fell in love with
Janet Lennon. She was the youngest back then. And how old is she now, Carol? Well, I did have to
look them up because you said you had been in love with Janet. Oh, yes. You got to say it like
Lawrence Wilkwood's hate. We got Myron Floren and Mr. Cordy. And it's going to play for us in
just a few minutes. And we got the Lennon sisters are coming in here, taking it out on toe tapping
tunes that you're going to want. And then Myron's going to come back with more accordion music for you.
And those lovely Lennon sisters, yes. Well, Janet now is 78. Oh my gosh. I saw them in Branson.
But how many years ago? Uh, four years ago. Oh, because I tried to look them all up and
would say no tickets available. Yeah, we went there. And maybe five years ago, we went for a wedding
and we were in Branson and we went to go see Andy Williams. Oh, yeah. But he was sick at the time
and he died a week later. But then Margaret and the Lennon sisters filling in for him.
And the Lennon sisters, did they look nice? They look great. They sound great. They look great.
I wasn't in love with them like Jim was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd be in wheelchairs now. I'm guessing,
right? Oh, well, you know, the singing that was on Lawrence Welk, it was an era where we loved
singers on TV. So I'm thinking of a couple of them Dinosaur, that southern voice,
blonde hair, the dresses that had these huge skirts with her teeny tiny waist.
Um, but of course, what was she famous for? She was a car salesman. Chevrolet. Chevrolet. See,
the USA in a Chevrolet. Yeah, she's got a lot of love. All right, here's my Lawrence Welk story,
real quick. There was a song in the 60s called One Toke Over the Line by Brewer in Shipley. Yeah.
And One Toke Over the Line refers to smoking pot. You're one Toke over the line.
Lawrence Welk had no idea what the song meant. So, um, Dale and Gale, two of the singers on the show,
sang the song. And Lawrence Welk comes after the song, what a great modern spiritual by
Daling Gale. He had no idea what song they were singing, what it was about. And that's,
that's a legendary fluff by Lawrence Welk. What it told was or what the song was about.
If they had known, they probably wouldn't have let them sing it on the show. Of course.
Yeah. Well, we also learned in our research about Back to Lawrence Welk that Norma Zimmer,
the Champagne leader for years and years, there really had been one for about four years before
that. Alice Lawn. And, um, they had a terrible dispute because apparently Lawrence thought she
was trying to show too much leg. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God. Yeah. Get the paddles and start my
heart again. And then, um, Perry Cuomo, another singer. Oh, he was such a crooner. And, uh,
yes, that sweater, Mr. Relaxation, Mr. Relaxation. Yeah. I got interview him once. You did? Yes,
I did. I interviewed him and very nice guy. And we ran a radio show. As my practice was on our
FM station here. And I got the interview and he was sponsored by something called the club,
which is thing you put on your steering wheel. Oh, yeah. And I said, I see you got a sponsor
of the club because I don't even know what that is. But he was very nice man. Did he seem relaxed
in person? They did a bit about him on SCTV, the comedy show. And they had him on a, um,
they brought him out on stage to perform on a bit. It was a look alike. And they said he's so relaxed.
He can't even stand up. He's so reliable. Yeah. Mr. Relaxation. Yeah. He was a barber, you know. Yes.
He was an Italian barber who made him big. Absolutely. That's right. Maybe it'll happen to us, Jim. Yeah.
You know what? Maybe we can be catapulted, my book, the New York tie. You want to cut, you want to cut
hair? Oh, um, we also love comedies in that era, Jim. And I know what was your favorite,
Don's too. Oh, yes. The honeymooners. Oh, don't get me started. Yeah. I've been sitting here
prior to the broadcast. Yeah. And these two men are quoting every episode. I want the audience to know.
That was our favorite, I guess, Don and mine here. Uh, Ralph Cramden. Cramden, of course,
was the bus driver. His sidekick was, of course, uh, Ed Norton is a sewer worker. And they were both
members of the, well, I'm trying to think was it the raccoons? They had uniforms. They had
the coonskin hat and the friendly raccoons. Did you try to join him?
No, I was too young, man. Their lives, of course, were Alice and, uh, a tricksy. Um, I think he was
famous for his saying, if he would get upset, one of these days, Alice, one of these days,
bang right in the bank, right in the kitchen, bang zoom. Yeah, bang zoom. You're going to the moon, Alice.
Hey, and when Alice really told him, he said, you're flirting with death.
I can see I'm going to have to cut you guys off with some other materials. Yeah, you better stop now.
Well, let's take a quick break here. Okay. We're talking about TV shows from the 50s that we used
to watch in Racine with Jim and Carol or coming up at just a moment. All right. Got Jim and Carol
here, Jim, the serial Carol, June 14. We're talking about what we used to watch on TV and
Racine in the 1950s. This is part two. Let's do it. Where we leave off? Well, we left off. I was
trying to stop you guys from remembering the honeymoon. Well, then I'll mention it again.
I'm going to get you started. Just get started. Yeah, yeah, doing. We love sitcoms like that one.
So we have to talk about. I love Lucy. That's my wife's favorite. She's got Lucy Don. She's got
Lucy Post. We have a giant Lucy blanket at home. Do you? It's a giant blanket to use as I got
for her on the 60th anniversary of I love Lucy 65th. And it's it's all the episodes on it. Yeah.
Oh, blue polka dot skirt. You're white. No, okay. We actually have the color episodes too.
Go ahead. I'm sorry. It's amazing. It was just six seasons in general. 1951 to 57.
And we all know the characters Lucy Ricky Ricardo and Little Ricky. It was filmed in front of a
live audience. How many times do we hear that phrase? Yes, it was a big thing I read.
The first time was ever used multiple cameras. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, very that was a very
do you want to explain the cameras to us done in detail? No, I don't know. I just know it was a
free camera. I know. By the way, Lucille Ball, Desi Lou productions, you know, Desi Lou. Yeah.
She's instrumental in putting one of the biggest TV shows in history on television. Carol Brunette.
Star Trek. Star Trek. Star Trek. Yeah. She fought to get that show on TV. Star Trek. Really?
That was that's a Desi Lou. Oh, it was a Desi Lou. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, we know about her crazy
antics and usually who's trying to hide them from her, her husband. So anyway. Lucy, you can't
begin the show. But Ricky, Lucy, you can't begin the show to Fred Apple. Yeah. And she did it anyway.
And you're who are those neighbors that you are? Fred and Ethel Merz. Yes. I used to love how they
used to be literally each other all the time. They also didn't like each other in real life.
That's right. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Well, I treated myself to just on YouTube watching an episode
picking an episode. And now you guys have to help me. This was when Lucy had a chance to do a commercial.
Oh, the Vitavitor's Vigilant. What did you have? Vitavitor. Vitavitor. Vitavitor.
Right in my I never know it in front of me with all kinds of lines in The Siliables. Vitavitor
Meat of Vigilant. Vitavitor. Vitavigible. And she was probably about 90 percent alcohol.
It was because she had to do retakes. Do you remember this? And tasty too. Yeah.
Finally, she was not pouring it into a spoon. She was pouring it right on the counter.
Why did the Vitavitor made a Vitavitor? I was amazed. I'm still laughing. We're still laughing.
And then another favorite gym? Well, Danny Thomas was up there as well. He portrayed Danny Williams.
His TV wife was Marjorie Lorde. My favorite character. She was the second one though. Yeah,
that's right. There was another wife at the beginning. And the wife dies on the series and the
Marjorie Lorde. He died on the series? Well, no, she died in real life. And that was not too much
of a comedy. They rode her out of the series, right? Okay. Remember my favorite character, Uncle
Tanouse? Yeah, he was good. But in 1960, on the show, they traveled through Mayberry and met
Sheriff Andy Taylor. That was so popular that became a show that was actually spun off. So that's
how we got the Andy Griffith show today. Now, he also produced another classic comedy he started.
Oh, the Dick Van Dyke show. Oh, no, Danny Thomas production. Why?
And so look at all the shows that Danny Thomas started. Yeah, he actually was on one episode of
the Dick Van Dyke show. And it was the one with the Walnuts. Oh, I remember that.
He played the guy from Planet Twilo. I don't think you guys have done anything else except watch
rewinds. I know it. I know it. Of course, he, uh, he's the one who started the St. Jude's hospital,
which we see the commercials today. Yeah. And on a serious note, I mean, we all want to say
what a great thing St. Jude seems to be in Marlott Thomas. He had a classic sitcom too.
That girl. Yeah. Black hair. Big eyes. Remember that? Yeah. Well, the comedies continued. So Jim,
we've called them the stand-up comedians came on. And I think they invented the monologue.
Then they would have crazy skits and antics and guest stars. But they had the monologue.
That's right. And they also were on live TV. So if you made a mistake, you kept going.
But you tried to hide it the best you could. But you couldn't stop and do a retake.
It was like radio. And once and a while in the later years, you got fired. Like the
smothers brothers, right? That's right. Yeah. They were, they were taunting CBS.
They were a step. They were pushing hold it right there. Yep. We're going to continue with
just a moment with Jim and Carol are here. Uh, Carol T and forte, Jim is here. And we're talking
about TV shows from the 1950s that we used to watch here and receive growing up.
Jackie Glacin.
All right. That sets the scene. We're talking about TV shows. We're seeing just a watch in the 1950s
with Carol T and forte and Jim is here. Did you ever do a big production number on this at the
Golden Rendell? No. No. No. No. This is new territory. Oh, this is Fred. We get it first.
This is a first. This isn't exclusive. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that. You're on the cutting edge.
Yeah. I'm on the cutting edge. All right. Let's continue where we're left off.
Well, we were into our comedies. And we had talked about I love Lucy,
Honeymooners, Danny Thomas. And now Jim and I were calling the stand-up comedians,
you know, starting out with monologues, skits and critics and guest stars.
Now, the first major TV star, according to a quote from some heavy-duty research I did,
was Milton Burrell. Uncle Milton. Uncle Milton. Yes.
Started in 1948, actually. Tuesday nights. And I found this so fascinating, again,
according to my research. Some stores in the United States of America closed on Tuesday nights
because no one is out. They were all watching Milton Burrell. Do you know I'm only two degrees
away from Milton Burrell? What do you mean by that? Well, you know, if you're degrees like if you
do. No, no, no. It's like you could be up to six to everybody's up to six degrees away from
other people on this planet. Yeah. Where you know somebody that knows that. Right. Right. Okay.
So I interviewed Mickey Rooney once in person. And he was on there. Yes. Well, Mickey Rooney was in
it's a mad mad mad world with Milton Burrell. So one degree would make you two degrees away from
Milton Burrell. Oh, that put you right there in the inner circle. I'm there. Two degrees away from
Milton Burrell. It's like you talking to me. It's the same as talking to Milton Burrell. It's
one of the same. Everybody was on it's a mad mad mad. I know that's why I'm two degrees away from
the world. Another thing that I found to just show how absolutely his big audience for Milton Burrell
Detroit had their water levels drastically changed until they knew what it was. The flush.
The flush. The commercial. Honestly, you didn't know what had happened to their water levels.
And he was sponsored by Texaco and then by Buick and Live from New York. And then nearby
Wachigan guy, Jack Benny, he was so famous for his deadpan look and his dry humor, his timing.
And he portrayed himself as a miser. And he got him rich. That's right. He was always 39 years old.
Remember that? Yeah. And I think your favorite, your family's favorite was another one, no Jim.
Oh, yes, Red Skeleton, of course. Actually, he was on the air from 51 to 71. And that was
like a variety show. He had guests like John Wayne and Jack Benny, of course, Phyllis Diller and
a lot more. But he was famous for his comedy sketches. He portrayed Freddy to Freelowder,
which was a nice, what do you say, bomb, I guess, Cully Flower McPugge, which was a boxer.
George Applebee, which was like a henpecked husband. And my favorite, Clem Codidilhopper.
Also the eagle, remember that? Oh, yes. That was, that was, that was Seagulls, Gertrude and
something. Yeah, two Seagulls. Who would you guys get your facts straight?
His skits were just a priceless. That's right. Jim, you told me that he was sponsored by Johnson
Lack. He was. And he came to a race scene. He actually did a skit here. I think it was maybe 14
minutes. And he portrayed Clem Codidilhopper. And he was going through the factory as if he was a
hired person. Of course, he was screwing up everything he did. But everybody who worked at Johnson's
was able to see him at the Rendell, not the Rendell. I'm sorry, the Rialto theater. And my dad got
two tickets because my dad worked there. My wife didn't, my mother didn't want to go. So my
dad and I went, but unfortunately, when he was supposed to appear on stage, somebody else appeared
and said, red would not be available today. So we were so disappointed, but they did have a nice
program in his absence anyway. You know, his wife was shot once shot. She got shot. I forget
what he is, what the story was. And he was going to perform that. He still performed that night.
Even though his wife was in a hospital shot, she survived. She was fine. But I mean, just to go
on stage and perform after you find that news. I think they lost the sun. He lost the sun too
with a race taken. Oh my right. Well, that brings us to George Burns and Gracie Allen. And
their comedy team. Gracie. Yeah. Gracie, tell us about your grandmother.
Gracie. Say good night, Gracie. Yeah, no, that was a great ending. Yes. The cigar. He had to
have a cigar to think. Yeah. He was the straight man. Yes, for Gracie. Yeah. And here again, they
used neighbors to help with the fun. So that was Blanche, a name of its times. Blanche and
Harry Morgan, those old names and neighbors. If I'm not mistaken, she isn't a crept, buried.
And he's next to her. But it's also, I think she's right above it. I could be wrong. Marilyn
Monroe. She's real cute. Yeah. I believe she's real close to where Marilyn Monroe is.
Is it a California hospital? No, it's a, it's a crept. Yeah. I know what you mean.
A comparison or something. Yeah. So that's where she is. And he always went there and he always
gave it a kiss every day and put flowers there. And that was buried next door in there. Okay.
I got that morbid story. There were the talent and variety shows. Oh, we moved into those and
like Sunday nights. Ed Sullivan was on for years. Yes. I think that was the best
variety show ever. A lot of people got discovered there, of course. Ed Sullivan, now he was
around on his TV show from 48 to 71, very long lasting show. The whole family would watch
together on Sunday evenings. And did you know that when Elvis made his appearance, 82.6%
of the TV audience was watching Elvis. Of course, as you know, Don, he was shown only from his
hips up. That's right. They wouldn't allow that bottom half to be shown. And who was introduced
to America on the Ed Sullivan show? Oh, well, we're going to tell you right now. Give a listen.
Now, yesterday and today, our theater has been jammed with newspaper and hundreds of
the dark moral of the nation. And these veterans agree with me that the city is never
as witness. The excitement stirred by these junctions from Liverpool. We call themselves the
Beatles. Now, tonight, you're going to twice be entertained by them. Right now, and again,
on the second half of our show, ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles.
Couldn't keep them quiet. Even had to come out and when they have to the Beatles performed.
Yeah. And said, you promised. Yeah.
And the poor comedian who came out, nobody wanted to hear.
No, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. All these other acts that I got, I'm sorry.
What year did he introduce them?
In 1964. Yeah. That's right. And they were so popular on his show. Like Don said, they were on
three Sundays in a row. Now, another famous group was the Rolling Stones. As funny story about
that, I'm sure Don knows. Let's spend the night together. They were going to sing, let's spend
the night together. Well, Ed would have any part of that. He said, no, we're going to change the
words to let's spend some time together. And they said, well, sure, yeah, we'll do it.
Of course, on live TV, they reverted back to let's spend the night together. And Ed was not too
happy about that. To have it with the doors too. Yes. Yes. Right. It was something in light my
fire. I forget what it was. It was a light my fire. Yeah. And he was told not to sing those
lyrics. And he did it anyway. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Of course, Hermit's Hermits were on their
Beach Boys Supremes and so many more. That was a very good show. And there were some talent shows.
The Ted Mac amateur hour ran from 48 to 52. Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts. 46 to 58.
The sponsors were Lipton T for Arthur Godfrey. And what else here? Gerritol. Our favorite
Gerritol for Ted Mac. Some of the famous people which were discovered on there. We know him.
Pat Boone, Gladys Knight, Teresa Brewer, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, and Patsy Klein, and so many more.
And Arthur Godfrey too, I think was. Well, that was his show. They were discovered on his show.
Oh, oh, I'm sitting here not listening to you. Oh, boy, oh, boy. Listen to you now. Oh, no,
what are you doing? We have some more sitcoms. We have a lot of those. Do you want to talk about it?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh-huh. Which was a radio show turned into TV. Uh-huh. And that was the ideal
family shows. Father knows best. That was an on for about eight years, starting in 54.
Now, the Anderson's lived in Springfield. And we can't quite pinpoint where the Simpsons lived
in Springfield too on TV. And there's like 50,000 Springfields in America. That's right. But
their actual address in Springfield was 607 Maple Avenue. In case you wanted to write to them.
You know, and we loved their house. A little kid that I found was that the facade of that house
was the same as Mr. Wilson's in Dennis the Menace. Oh, okay. I mean, it was passed on.
Now, dad Jim, he was the general insurance agent and played by Robert Young and the mother
was Margaret by Jane Wyatt. Kids were Peggy Jeff and Kathy. This was Wednesday nights at seven.
Kidding. Kidding. Right. Kidding. Oh. Uh-huh. Now, I thought I'd better watch an episode. Now,
you guys have photographic memories. So you know all the episodes of anything. But I watched
a YouTube and I admit I was kind of thinking all this was it going to be like saintly. And
lo and behold, it wasn't. No. It was Jim Anderson was trying to teach his wife how to drive.
And the garage door was in great jeopardy. And he was very, very upset. By the way,
Ellen donna Hugh, who played this. She was, uh, she went on the star on the Andy Griffiths show.
Uh-huh. As the drugist Andy's girlfriend. Yes. And she went on stars Felix Unger's girlfriend
on the on couple TV series. Yeah. So she's, and she's still around. Ellen donna Hugh. She was on
Star Trek two months. So what you really? Yep. All right. There you go. Hold on just a second.
We're talking to Jim and Carol talking about TV shows. We used to watch in the 50s here in
Racine. More coming up at just a moment, seven, forty-eight local news and timeless. It's a WRJN.
Okay. We're talking to Jim and Carol. Uh, Jim and Racine. Carol G and forte. I keep flipping on
around and give one top billing over the other. I keep flipping back and forth. Yeah. Jim and Carol
talking about TV shows. She used to watch in the 1950s here in Racine. And we left off at
Ozzy and Harriet. No. No. We will follow the nose best. But that's coming. Well, then we have,
we have, we have Donna Reed. Oh, Donna Reed show. Okay. Now we have a semi-script here.
Donna Reed. Okay. All right. I know. I know. I know. So Donna Reed. Now, um, you know,
another ideal family. And this was the first sitcom to feature a mother. And she was, uh,
usually faced with, uh, helping in the family, but the community, making choices about her life
and how can she spread herself among her duties? She was always in a dress. Perfect, perfect hair.
Some high heels, pearls. And in another beautiful house, just like Fradda knows that her husband
was a doctor. Yeah. Dr. Alex Stone, the Peter. Yeah. And Jeff Mary and Trisha. So I have to admit,
I wanted to, like I said, you guys have the, the photographic memories. So I wanted to see
another episode of Donna Reed. So the other day I looked and it said Mary comes home. So anyway,
I, like I said, I was thinking, well, you know, this is such an ideal family. It's, it's going to be
dated. Well, Mary sends a note home that she's coming home for the weekend from college. Probably
her first time home. They are so excited. She gets there. They've been waiting for several days.
And Mary's friends start coming by and calling. And now she's only had the weekend and the parents
and the, her siblings have been left out. And by the time they were finally seeing the light,
Mary said that she was sorry, that she loved her family and she had neglected them.
I was practically crying. Practically crying now. Yeah. So I know as a mother and a grandmother
and everything, it was very much the real thing. Still applying to daily life. Well, Donna Reed and
their husband produced the show. They were co-producers of the Donna Reed show. She met her own show.
And she was, I mean, she was a good actress before then. She actually won the Academy Award
playing a prostitute from here to eternity. I think she was nominated for an Oscar. And she was
at, of course, the biggest favorite movie of all time. It's a wonderful life. She played the love
interest of James Stewart. And didn't you have an episode of mine about Mary to talk about that
when you get to see Harriet? Also, she was, she took over on the TV show Dallas. When she,
oh, I think I remember that. Yeah. When the, I forget who played the original mother. She,
in real life, she had some cancer surgery. Yeah. And she was on for one season as the mother
on Dallas. She replaced Barbara Belgetties. Yeah. It didn't work because we were so used to
Barbara Belgetties. Yeah. Jim, Ozzy and Harriet was another great. Oh my gosh. Yeah. That was a
very, very good family show that ran from 52 to 66 sponsored by Kodak, of course. And that
started to Nelson family. Ozzy and his wife, Harriet and their sons Dave and Ricky Nelson.
That was considered the longest running TV sitcom ever. And of course, that was another ideal
family show, right? And that show at the end of every episode Ricky sang a song. Yes.
And they became hit songs Ricky Nelson and his band. And then the people over at the Donna
Reed show said, wait a second here, we could do the same thing, but they didn't have a performer
like Ricky Nelson. So what they did was they told went to Shelley Fabri and they said, well,
you're going to sing. She goes, no, I'm not. And they threatened her that you're going to be
on the show if you don't sing. So there was one episode where they had her sing and it became a
number one top hit song, Johnny Angel by Shelley Fabri and that was just signing another Donna Reed show.
Another very popular show was, of course, leave it to Beaver. Now that ran from 57 to 63.
It starred Theodore Beaver Cleaver, Wally Cleaver. And of course, Ward and June Cleaver.
Some of Wally's friends were lumpy. And my favorite Eddie. And Eddie always picked on the Beaver.
Eddie Haskell. He was legendary. Yes. He became a police officer later.
And he was always polite to Mrs. Cleaver. She misses Cleaver. The dress is lovely.
Hey, yes, get out of here. Yeah. Another one. She's Mrs. Cleaver. Wallace and I are going to go
to the movies today. And we'd like to take the little ones with us. There was a leaves the room.
You're not coming with a sport. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Of course, Ward saw right through Eddie
all the time. You know, they both saw through Eddie. Yeah, right. Yeah. But we have a lot more to do
here. But I think we're going to make that a part three right here. Well, I get to meet.
That's right. The guy who played Wally Cleaver on the show Tony Dow worked on my first station.
He was across the street in a bar. He was doing a soap opera in New York City at the time.
And he's was at the bar. And I got to meet him and talk to him for a little bit. And he was
Wally Cleaver. He was such a nice guy. And Beaver Cleaver, I corresponded with Jerry Mathers once.
And he's the only person still alive that was on the show. They're all gone. Yeah. That's right.
They had. It's very sobering. They had the New Leaf to Beaver show, which was a big hit.
So they're still the beaver. Yeah. And so that lasted a while. And Jerry Mathers, he did, he got
discovered in an Alfred Hitchcock movie called The Trouble with Harry. That was his first role.
He was about three or four years old, four or five years or whatever it was. And he was in an
Alfred Hitchcock movie. And they saw him in the movie. And they said, here's our beaver.
Oh, no, that's how he got started. The rest of the cast really didn't do much. I mean,
Ward Cleaver, he was on an episode of Superman once you bow mod. He was on the adventures of Superman.
Yeah. And Barbara Billingsley had some minor roles, but they really didn't do anything before or
after. I mean, I think Tony Down was on Adam 12 once. But for the most part, no, they didn't do
anything. Jerry Mathers went into the military after David to Beaver. And they just stuck with
that character. And that's why we only know him as living in reruns. Yeah. Ever Cleaver. Yeah.
So what do we have next time? What are you going to do? Well, you know, we are going to we'll take a
break from this and do something else in December being close to Christmas. We're going to take
everybody down six street and go Christmas shopping. Oh, wow. From going by us anything. Yeah.
From 1964, we're going to walk starting on Main Street going all the way down six street and
coming back, ending up by Fanny Farmer. Well, I was going to say, are you going to give me your
credit card, but we didn't have credit cards. We had layaway layaway. Yeah. How did you buy stuff?
There was expensive. We had to come with cash or a check. I can't believe it gets. Yeah. Wow.
And Zons had those pneumatic tubes where, you know, you're building your payment went up through
the up the walls across the ceiling up somewhere there on the fourth floor. Well, I love having
you too and Jim is here in Carol G and forte. Carol's going to be next week talking about her
book and you're going to be in the week after talking about the open house. Open house at the
recene business center. We're going to do that too, huh? But let's end with what we started with.
Jackie Glacin.
The Honey Motor.
