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David Mitchell

Wow! John Jackson and Dan Cody on the same day!

I can just hear Sister Norbertine now - "As I Live and breathe."  

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(And please tell us Dan, how do you happen to know about Summer school at L.M.?) 

Mark Schweickart

Mike,

What about Johnny Yuma, Bat Masterson, and Yancy Derringer? And of course the granddaddy Bonanza--true this one was an instrumental unless you were unfortunate enough to have been exposed to Lorne Green singing the same tune with lyrics.

Fred Clem

You could reach reach Richard Boone's character with a wire sent to San Francisco. 

Remember Rob Reiner had the boys in  "Stand By Me" singing the "Have Gun, Will Travel" theme song as they hiked through the woods.  He must have considered it an important part of the 50's-60's era.

Fred Clem

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

Love all the old cowboy shows.  We were the first on our street to get a color TV and I remember a full house of family & neighbors those first Sunday nights with the Cartwrights and the Ponderosa.  Anybody remember LISTENING to The Lone Ranger, Burns & Allen, Amos & Andy on the radio?  Mostly did it on car trips but I have some grainy memories of huddling around the radio on Sunday nights before TV.  

My favorite cowboy theme song & show:  (maybe he doesn't count as a cowboy because he was sly more than dangerous!)  

Who is the tall, dark stranger now?  _____________ is the name. 

Ridin' the trail to who knows where.  Luck is his companion.  Gamblin' is his game.

Clare

Michael McLeod

LInden McKinley. The walk of shame. Now it can be told. What a horrible way to ruin your summer. Flunk Algebra and be forced to go to summer school.

Ok there. I said it. I own it. And thank goodness I got that extra dose of Algebra because it has been so very applicable to my journalistic career. 

Janie Albright (Blank)

Westerns were definitely big at our house growing up but I can't think of the answer to Clare's quiz. I know someone will! 

There is a channel on Time Warner that has Western reruns. Someone told me about it and I had to pay $10/mo but it was one of few things I could get Dennis interested in watching toward the end.  There was an old Bonanza Christmas episode with guest star a young Wayne Newton! Lol 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Timothy Lavelle

Hummer,

Bart and Bret were two of my favorites from that time period, so "Maverick was his name". James Garner rode that part to a great career in TV and movies...maybe "Dirty Dozen"???

I wonder if anyone remembers the "Man with a Camera" (Charles Bronson) or "77 Sunset Strip" (was that Efram Zimbalist Jr.?) or my weekly tast of the highway - "Route 66"?

Michael McLeod

The answer to Clare's quiz is "Bronco."

Bronco, Bronco, tearin' across the texas plains

Bronco, Bronco - Bronco Lane!

Palladin was the classiest cowboy. I mean, the dude lived in a hotel.

Maverick was the clever one: He used his wits, not his gun.

The Long Ranger must have been rich: Silver bullets! And with his native American sidekick he was ahead of his time in multicultural awareness. 

It was hard for me to take Roy Rogers seriously. He sang songs and had a wife who rode around with him and a sidekick who drove a Jeep. That kind of left the wild wild out of the wild wild west as I understood it then.

Mark Schweickart

Mike

You think the "jeep" was un-wild westerny, how about their plane, "The Songbird."

Michael McLeod

Hmmm maybe I am wrong on the Hummer quiz -- now I think those lyrics are from the Maverick theme song.

But if I've already flunked the test so be it. Wouldn't be the first time. 

Michael McLeod

And ha on songbird, Marq.

David Fredericks

Hi Dan C.....thanks for the kind words about my Dad.  He was really proud of the caddy program he developed at OSU and took pride in the quality of the kids in it.  We all were his "apple knockers".  Do you remember being in cub scouts in Mrs. Hemmelgarn's  den?  I still have the the plaster Santa and yule log candle holder we made in scouts, as well as the small flag I made at your mom's.  

John Maxwell

Daniel Cody

Dave this is unbelieveable. I too still have that plaster santa and yule log from cub scouts.  In the great outing if the summer of 63. Not a day goes by when i winder why i didn't use algebra 1.  My mother was more impressed with Angel's flag and whoever did the Saudi arabia flag.  As to mr mitchell yes I too have been outed about summer if 63 at LM.  There is a story my mother shared about your father. Your father like most physicians were politically conservative.  Your father was even drawn to the john birch society but resigned when the membership had no hesitation in their espousal of racism.  She considered your fathers challenge and resignation to be quite admirable. My parents were highly impressed by his character.

David Mitchell

Jack,

How about "We interrupt this broadcast", or "please don't adjust your set" ? 

And "Cookie, Cookie, lend me your comb".

Anybody remeber Sky KIng's neice's name?  

OH, and who said "Well King, this case is closed" ?

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Dan,

Wow! Amazing stuff to recall! I never imagined anybody would know about that. I remember the night dad came home, having done a dramatic walk-out at his John Birch meeting. This moment is one of thoe events burned into my memory!

He was in the kitchen (with the kitchen dooor locked - meaning this was important AND private - expaining to mom what had happened. He was (from what I could tell with my ear to the door) hugging her, and he was balling like a baby. "Dorothy, I've been duped, they're nothing but a bunch of anti-semitic, racists losers!"  He was sick over the couple of good friends who refused to quit after he begged them to. Some of you may recall, dad was ultra-conservative, but through the years of news casts about the civil rights movement, I observed a gradual process of change, like a wedge being driven between his political views and his faith. One night he made a dramatic pronouncement at the dinner table. I'll spare you the dramatic details, but he was sobbing as he "announced" to us that his faith had won out, and he was forsaking any political allegience from that day on (almost in those words but a bit more dframatic). He gave me some stern lessons about his distaste for racism, one of which was so emotional I started crying - and I think I was about 16 at the time.  "it hasn't got a damn thing to due with true Conservatism and don't you ever let me catch you........"    you get the point. 

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Tim, OMG man, "The Man with the Camera" -- LOVED that Show! Bronson was da' man!   And years later in the 70's he was great in the (middle) version of "The Magnificent 7"  

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Mike, I rest assured in the confidence that your editors over the years have had to rely heavily on Pythagorum's Theorum for your articles. I mean where would you be today if the sum of the square of the hypotneuese was not equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides..... yuhuh.   

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Clare, My Aunt and Uncle moved from Clintonville over to Arlington in the 60's and got a color TV. We would go over for there for Sunday night dinner and sit in front of Bananza with tray tables and ,,,(wait for it) ,,,"TV DINNERS"!

David Mitchell

Come get your kix, on route 66

Joseph Donahue

Penny was the niece and her plane was Bluebird - I think. 

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

Joe,

Jeesh! Come on now, get with the program. "Songbird" (and I think somebody already gave the correct answer) 

Right about Penny, Jim. 

Daniel Cody

Wow and to think i got to meet skyking and penny at the state fair. It was at the youth center an panic ensued when they started to fling packages of fig newtons to the mass of prepubescent groupies

Joseph Donahue

Just to be clear Dave, Bluebird was the name of Penny's plane and you asked the name of the niece. Yesssh indeed

Timothy Lavelle

"...a knight without armour

in a savage land...."

Who started this goofy ass thread....I can't get the Paladin theme song out of my head......

To clarify it was Edd "Kookie" Byrns.

Hey, I just got a call from an old friend to relate that JoeThiebert, "Mayor of the Short North" passed away. Likely you didn;t know Joe but he was a total character and a good guy from way back when. RIP Joe.

David Mitchell

Sorry Tim - it was Kookie.

And didn't Joe Thiebert play basketball for St. Charles? - and didn't he go by "Fergie"?

When I had my Antique import business in Short North years ago he would come in to visit us - I sub-leased from a couple with a high end leather furniture biz and I think he knew them personally. Seems to me that he and about a dozen co-workers of his won the lottery one time.  

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Seems like today was the day we all had nothing else to do - LOL