Our radios played much of the day and we could listen to adventures in the evening, like Superman and The Green Hornet and Batman and The Shadow and Intersanctum and Johnny Dollar, and news and soap operas during the day and news programs after supper.īut that was it. The point is, that our heads were not as full of noisy distractions as they are now. I was still in grammar school at the time. I would go next store many evenings after supper to watch it with Bill. It was very sophisticated and literate for a kid’s show. That’s where I first saw Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, a witty, bright puppet show out of Chicago, with Fran Allison as the only human. My neighbor and friend, Bill Doheny, had a TV with a 4-inch screen and a magnifying glass installed in front of it. It was all in black and white and the screens ranged between 6 and 12 inches. And we had morning and afternoon newspapers, many delivered to our front door. And we had movies and many movie theaters. We had radio, thank God, which was wonderful. So there was very little broad-based commercial noise. We grew up at a time, in the late-1940s, early ’50’s, when there was no color television, let alone 50-inch, color, high-definition TV, no Internet, no cell phones, no Walkmans, no DVDs, no CDs, no cassette tapes. That was especially true of my generation. There are certain songs, certain jingles, that get into your head when you’re young and stay there forever.
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