No more Scotts, no more Isys or Cave. What about the White Lunch, Krak-a-Joke store, just plenty of change. They say progress is wonderful and we should feel ecstatic.
No more three or four percent interest on regular bank accounts to save or delicious Mr Ikes or Mr Mikes Steaks for - with all the trimmings - a dollar nineteen or plenty of coffee for a dime and refills, free. Some of us at least seem to feel lucky for what once had been, happy for what used to be.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, DVDs
The Fraser River Gold Rush is long gone but sometimes at thrift stores, garage sales and flea markets there are plenty of nuggets one can sometimes find for a buck or two, in dvd’s. Nothing modern, of course, I’m talking about the real gold, captured moments that take us back to wearing Davy Crocket hats, just kids, not mature, watching movie stars like Victor Mature. So to kick off 2018 with High Ho Silver...and away, a few more rhyming nostalgic reflections.
Anybody still remember Ma and Pa Kettle and Hi Ho Silver and away!
The Lone Ranger, thanks to Rossini’s classic overture.
How about Francis the talking mule, just a couple years ago, eh,
and those stars in the early days like Victor Mature, Andy Divine,
Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Dale Evans and a show on TV called Topper.
By the way, does anybody still remember the Brooklyn Dodgers.
With rabbit ears we could sometimes even pull in Toast of the Town,
with Ed Sullivan, a really early black and white TV show stopper.
There was no video tape, most shows had to be broadcast live.
If one could pull in four channels, people would say wow!
You needed aerials on top of your roofs, without them,
how could modern society survive.
Today, with iPhones, it’s hard to figure out how.
On radio, we loved Arthur Godfrey, ‘How are ya, how are ya.’
There was Eve Arden in Our Miss Brooks,
pulled in often on a five tube Philco.
There was the Bob Hope Show and William Bendix in The Life of Riley.
There were all those sponsors, from GE to Lipton Tea.
What a nugget it is finding some of those great shows
from the silver screen to TV now on DVD.
Hopefully this New Year you once again welcomed 2018 with the magic sound of Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.