Rememberance of Childhood

[Allen]

Memories

[dogtag]

Watching Lawrence Welk was like going to the Dentist.
I wondered how Ed Sullivan got to be so popular when he couldn't even speak English

[Allen]

Watching Lawrence Welk was like going to the Dentist.
I wondered how Ed Sullivan got to be so popular when he couldn't even speak English

By introducing the Beatles to America.

Lawrence Welk never left the 1930's.

[dryheat]

The Beatles was about the only thing I liked on the show. I hated Toppo Gigio and most of the goofy acts. All those women with gloves up to their elbows singing something like opera.

[Major Tom]

Thanks again allen! Keep up with the cartoons!

[dogtag]

I recall one Ed Sullivan show featuring Opera Star Birgit Nillson.
It was explained several times to Ed how to pronounce her name.
He nodded that he understood and then Announced her as Bridget Nelson.

[dryheat]

wunnerful, wunnerful, wunnerful
Tank you Bobbie and Susie

[fguffey]

Remembrance of Childhood

Watching Lawrence Welk was like going to the Dentist.
I wondered how Ed Sullivan got to be so popular when he couldn't even speak English

We had a different childhood, I have no idea when the age of childhood came to an end, at 14 I was at the Marine Corp recruiting office trying to volunteer, Lawrence Welk, Ed Sullivan? We did not have a TV.

F. Guffey

[dryheat]

When I went to San Diego for Navy boot camp we had an AM radio up on a shelf. Some of us listened to 'come together". 'He come on flat top, he come groovin up slowly..'
It was a touch of hometown. I was a little shocked when I heard a kid say he hated that song. I get it. fguffey was raised in the country too. Pennsylvania maybe?. One day I want to go there.

[jmm03]

Re the first cartoon. We didn't try it at home because it would result in an ass whupping, so we went elsewhere. It truly is a wonder some of us survived really, but we sure had fun. Jim

[Allen]

Re the first cartoon. We didn't try it at home because it would result in an ass whupping, so we went elsewhere. It truly is a wonder some of us survived really, but we sure had fun. Jim

+1

I think a lot of our common sense developed from trial and error, getting hurt, getting dirty, having fun, staying outside, exploring, playing with others and observing what happened to others when they pushed their limits.

But through it all we knew that shooting someone in the face would do more harm than just smutting their face as shown in cartoons. Now days the networks can probably be sued for showing such. Pitiful.

[Vern Humphrey]

+1

I think a lot of our common sense developed from trial and error, getting hurt, getting dirty, having fun, staying outside, exploring, playing with others and observing what happened to others when they pushed their limits.

But through it all we knew that shooting someone in the face would do more harm than just smutting their face as shown in cartoons. Now days the networks can probably be sued for showing such. Pitiful.

Yep. When I was a kid on the ranch, we always looked for places where we could dispose of a body without it ever being found. There were several such places.

[Allen]

Yep. When I was a kid on the ranch, we always looked for places where we could dispose of a body without it ever being found. There were several such places.

We always threw the bodies in a wood chipper.

[jmm03]

we played army in the woods. The idea was more to sneak up on your opponent close enough to pelt him with a dirt clod. I believe now I am thankful that we did not have bb guns... we also played tackle football in a rocky field with trees. One poor kid caught a perfect pass but when he spun around he face planted right into mr. oak. Laid him right out, he went home with a tree impression on his face. Being the assholes that kids can be we nicknamed him "barky"

[Allen]

I believe now I am thankful that we did not have bb guns...

A childhood w/o BB guns?

[jmm03]

my parents were not as enlightened about projectile weapons as some, not specifically against them as much as no frame of reference. I made up for lost time as soon as I turned 18 and continued ever since. Took my daughter shooting when she was 6. Jim

[Mark in Ottawa]

I put on the television yesterday and to my horror, there was a re-run of a Lawrence Welk broadcast

[Robert Scott]

A childhood w/o BB guns?

Every kid in my neighborhood was issued a Crossman 760. Santa was usually the disbursement officer...the lucky few even had a Stringray bike to enhance the adventures..

[Vern Humphrey]

I put on the television yesterday and to my horror, there was a re-run of a Lawrence Welk broadcast

You guys have GOT to get yourself a new Prime Minister. And when he goes, make sure he has Joe under one arm and Kamela under the other.