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Calabash........but if you're olde enuf to remember it, you're also olde enuf to misremember it
You're right,it was Mrs. Calabash,but does anybody know who Mrs. Calabash was and how Jimmy Duranty came to use that famous line of his in his closing?
Remember when TV screens were round? Our first color TV made you feel like you were watching it through binoculars at the neighbors' or something.
That is something that I didn't think of - color TVs!
We never had one until a couple of years after I was married, although they had been around for quite a few years. I think we bought one in 1975. What a treat!! Now, only plasma will do.
Round is good!
A popular theory for the Mrs. Calabash line - "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." - refers to his dear, late wife. They lived in a CA town called Calabasas. Apparently, he never did reveal exactly what the meaning of his beloved line was.Jimmy Durante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I can't believe you remember the plastic sheet to put on the tv while watching Captain Kangaroo! I couldn't remember which show had you do that, but it was fun!
How about ON tv, the first cable box?
Putting playing cards attached with clothes pins on the spokes of your bike tires?
Lloyd Thaxton and the talking hand?
Ninth Street West with Sam Riddle?
Hollywood A GO GO with Sam Riddle
Where the Action is with Paul Revere and the Raiders?
Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Time with Knuckle Head Smith?
Felix the Cat?
The Beatles cartoons on Saturday morning, to name just a few.
When it was so cool to have a 76 ball on your antenna.
When you would read the cereal box while eating.
And on a down note, watching Oswald killed on live t.v. by Jack Ruby and Robert Kennedy after his wonderful speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. Old enough to remember losing Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morriston to name a few.
That is something that I didn't think of - color TVs!
We never had one until a couple of years after I was married, although they had been around for quite a few years. I think we bought one in 1975. What a treat!! Now, only plasma will do.
Round is good!
A popular theory for the Mrs. Calabash line - "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." - refers to his dear, late wife. They lived in a CA town called Calabasas. Apparently, he never did reveal exactly what the meaning of his beloved line was.Jimmy Durante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Goodnight Mrs. Calabash wherever you are" Mrs. Calabash was really Mrs.Lucille "Lucy" Coleman,It seems that back in 1940, Jimmy Durante and his group was touring a little seaside community in Calabash, North Carolina bordering South Carolina.Him and his troupe are said to have stopped in her restaurant for supper one night and Jimmy Durante beckoned her over to his table for some short chitchat,"I'm going to make you famous" vowed Durante,thinking she recognized his well-known face.(In fact,At that moment she didn't even know who he was!) Lucy's daughter, Clarice Holden,Says she will never forget what happened next. As Mr. Durante and his group were walking out the door after their meal,Clarice recalls,he turned to my mom and said,"Goodnight Mrs. Calabash."
It wasn't long afterward that the popular entertainer began signing off his radio show with a similar message.
By the time of Durante's death in 1980,it had become one of his trademarks.
Residents of Calabash,North Carolina Believed it was Duranty's way of saying to Mrs. Coleman, "Hi, Lucy--I remember you,If you're still out there now."
Lucy Coleman passed away in 1989,nearly 50 years after her meeting with Jimmy Durante.
1968. 29 cent gas in houston. fillup on my VW bug was 3 bucks.
apt (above garage) was 80 bucks a month.
i made 13.50 hr at Armco steel plus mucho overtime (bout starting wage for a lota jobs now) and i had lots of hair. and i was grateful. there you go there is the old guy speech (actually i am still grateful)
1957, gasoline at $.15 a gallon, two-bedroom apartment,$80.00 a month, paycheck $120.00 a week. Prince George's County, Maryland.
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