Do you know what I like and didn't know it until I tried it?

Switchel.

It's tasty.

A list of TV shows that were important to me while growing up. PART 1

Children's Shows
1. Romper Room
2. Sesame Street
3. Captain Kangaroo
4. The Electric Company
5. Mr. Dressup (It's a Canadian show)
6. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
7. New Zoo Revue
8. H.R. Pufnstuf
9. The Banana Splits



Live-Action
1. Gilligan's Island
2. Lost In Space
3. The Munsters
4. Emergency!
5. The Addams Family
6. The Brady Bunch
7. The Monkeys
8. That's Incredible!
9. The Hulk
10. CHiPs
11. Hogan's Heroes
12. The Jefferson's
13. All In The Family
14. Space 1999
15. Battlestar Galactica (of course the original series)
16. The Muppet Show
17. The Tonight Show (w/Johnny Carson)
18. The Carol Burnett Show
19. The Dukes of Hazard
20. The Love Boat
21. Fantasy Island
22. Dallas
23. M*A*S*H

Oh...
24. The Waltons
25. Little House on the Prarie
26. Donny & Marie
27. Captain & Tenille
28. Sonny & Cher


Animated
1. All Classic Warner Brothers
2. Pink Panther
3. Scooby-Doo (pre-Scrappy Doo)
4. Speed Racer
5. Tom & Jerry (The earlier stuff. Not that 60's psychedelic trippin' stuff from later.)
6. Popeye
7. The Flintstones
8. The Jetsons

Measurement of Time

When I was about seven years old (the same age as my daughter is as I publish this) the world seemed to move at an incredibly slow almost glacial pace.

We would often travel around the state visiting relatives up in Cleveland, down in Dayton and elsewhere in various nearby locales.

As most any one knows a two or three hour car trip isn't an all day journey but to a seven year old it may as well be a transcontinental trip.

Even though I believe I could read the time on a clock I didn't have a good grasp of time as it relates to, well, time.

"How much longer?" I would ask. "Oh. forty-five minutes.", mom would say.

Forty-five minutes? My mom and dad might as well have tried to explain to me.

Forty-five minutes? How long is that?

I did what I had to.

If I was going to truly understand what that meant I had ask the same question with a slightly different angle.

"How many Gilligan's Islands is that?" I asked.

Ah yes, I was a Gilligan's Island junkie. I watched the show so often that the half-hour space it occupied had a real sense of time to me.

"Oh, about one and a half episodes I suppose." Mom or Dad would reply.

Aha! Now I understood.

The only way that time (as esoteric as it is), had any meaning to me at age seven.

Things I miss or will soon...

Phone Booths
Cigarette Vending Machines
WALK/DONT WALK Signs
Mailboxes on the Street Corner
Returnable 16 oz. Glass Soda Bottles
Free Matchbooks at the Cash Register
Mechanical Gas Pumps
Rotary Dial Phones
35mm Film