The Terrible Catsafterme

Like most events from 1975, there is very little information, photos, or memories of this, my fifth Christmas on Earth. There are a couple of spectacular shots taken in our living room of my Mom and me basking in the afterglow of the gift-opening ritual. Other than that, I have relied on Bill and Dottie for the few snapshots taken on Christmas Eve at Arline and Carl’s. The rest requires mostly speculation. Read the rest of this entry »

Upon my return from my October 2005 trip to California (which strongly mirrored in many ways my most recent trip this past February), I had the itch to really create some sort of record, writing, scrapbook – whatever – of my misadventures and experiences from the vacation. As this was my ‘pre-website’ days, the only outlet I had was to write them into a Quark document for future possible printing – with photos – ala a newsletter of sorts. (The photo at left was the first one of the trip – Bob on the Walk of Fame). Because this required quite a bit of effort, I never finished it. In fact I only finished the first two days of chronicling the trip. Memory will help me fill in the blanks, but here’s what I had written for day one: Read the rest of this entry »

The thing I remember about getting my picture take with midget actor Billy Barty was that I was it was just in the nick of time as he was on his way out of the Hollywood Collector’s Show during the Summer of 1995. And so was I. Bob wasn’t with me for some reason during a portion of our second day at the show, June 25, so I didn’t really have anyone to take pictures of me and the stars. I had actually already purchased a nice shot from him of The Mickey McGuire series. The so-named Mickey would eventually become Mickey Rooney and the little, tiny co-star was later better known as Billy Barty. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is an assortment of nice color slides taken at the houses of various family members – including ours on Echo Hill, highlighting a couple of family get-togethers. As I mentioned in a previous posting, our families – as they continue to do now – always spent a lot of time together. The allusion to the ‘cousins parties’ in the title comes from a series of gatherings from the late 90’s and early 2000’s of the older cousins on my Mom’s side. I’m thinking its high time for another one. Read the rest of this entry »

For many years, Erin Moran had refused to acknowledge her role as Joannie Cunnigham by refusing to participate in any reunions or signing autographs for her fans. The reason was that she had become very religious and felt that some of the Happy Days shows were immoral. This made her autograph highly desirable to me. Eventually, she recanted and has been making numerous public appearances. I don’t know if the almighty dollar adjusted her way of thinking, or if she simply rethought her position. Read the rest of this entry »