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Ann,
Just wondering what's the age and economic range of the neighbors, have they planted roots or just stopping off on their way to the next McMansion, also are there are a lot of kids?
I live in Houston in an area called Olde Oaks. The homes are beautiful and the ages range from young married couples with young children to older people whose children have already left home. Quite a few people move from transfers and then I have a feeling quite a few people are not able to keep up with their homes financially. I have a neighbor across the street and in nineteen years I had two waves. I try to be friendly but it is very different living then in the East. Actually, I had two very close friends that I met when I first moved down here and they were both from Long Island. They could not take living down here and when their husbands refused to move back East they both left their husbands,took the kids and moved back to NY.
Maybe it is the times.The people who have come out to our area in CA build houses on acreage and then stay inside all the time. I think some people have forgotten how to enjoy the outdoors. They just want to watch their giant tvs.
I lived in Hawaii for 8 years in the 80's and there was a very lively neighborhood life. Our neighbors came over with gifts when we moved in. The kids got to run wild. They rode their bikes, skated, went to the corner candy store and the local park. People looked out for the kids. All colors, shapes and sizes.No shoes, lived in shorts and tops.Summer all the time. Another universe.
I agree roadrunnergal. I think that's all the people do is sit and watch their large TV screens. Life is just not like it use to be but neither is anything else.
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Welcome back , Fun City Man. It's great to hear from you again. I will try to catch part of that Marathon. Has it been sixty years?
All of us who grew up in the fifties and sixties in New York and Long Island remember Channel Eleven. That was the kids' station after all . It had Rootie Kazootie and The Merry Mailman , I remember meeting him on the Port Jeff Ferry once . I did not know who he was without his uniform, but my Dad did. His daughter who later became somewhat notorious was with him. She was probably only five or six at the time.
After school ; was that the Zacarlee (spelling?) channel ? Remember the Yuletime log?
And, when all the stations would sign off with The Star Spangled Banner at midnight? Was it (as Michael Moore might say) all a dream?
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I remember Kula, Fran and Ollie. Was it Ollie that looked somewhat like a dragon and had a big tooth (teeth) showing?
3 Stooges was a regular show at our house.
Any chance for those that are far removed from the WPIX station we can see some of this online?
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His name is spelt John Zacherley..Not Zacharlee(His last
name is really spelt..Zacherle..but for his professtional name
he added a y to the end of that last name)
Thanks, fcm. Didn't they try to revive all of that in the late seventies? Or eighties?
Even Howdy Doody had a temporary renaissance, I seem to recall.
I wonder what Zacharley is doing now. And, Soupy Sales?
Was Clarabelle really Bob Keeshon ?
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