The Terrible Catsafterme

I could go on lamenting from now until doomsday about how few photos I had taken of me with various celebrities who attended the same Hollywood Collectors Shows as I did in both 1995 and 1997  – but it wouldn’t change the fact that it remains exceptionally difficult to conjure up the facts of exactly who I met and when. Especially considering that I had obtained so many of their autographs before the shows that I often I would simply walk by them without acknowledging them, lest they attempt to sell me an autograph that I already owned. When it comes to some of the cast members from the TV show My Three Sons, I’m fairly certain that it went down like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Mom and Dad were still separated as of Christmas 1985 but that did not stop us from all getting together on Christmas Eve with Dad’s side of the family…Bill, Dottie, Lora, & Robby, Grandma & Oscar, Arline & Carl, and Harold. It does not appear that there are any photos from this gathering – and I can’t remember much specific from it – but if it was like all of the other Christmas Eves of the past, it was met with much anticipation. Although we generally opened a few gift on this night (one from each of my parents, Grandma Range’s gift, and small ones from Bill & Dottie and Arline & Carl), the gathering was more about the celebration. Read the rest of this entry »

All in the Family is certainly one of the greatest television sit-coms of all time. It definitely ranks in my top ten favorite shows. It has special meaning to me in a way too -because it was this show that was being broadcast at the time that I was born. My Dad still remembers watching the episode Archie in the Lock-Up in the hospital waiting room on that fateful evening of October 2, 1971. The show’s theme song “Those Were the Days” was one of the very first songs I ever learned. My Uncle Ed still remembers me singing “Dozer da Days” at the top of my lungs in the car during our visit to Washington D.C. in 1973. Read the rest of this entry »