Comments on: What We Hold in our Heads

By: fred

fred — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:42:32 +0000

Linda, thank you for taking time to read the book slowly. I hope you find some smiles in it–some Ahs, Ahas and HaHas, if you will. — FF

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:13:17 +0000

Oh my goodness! Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred! I hadn’t thought of them for eons. Our kids loved them long ago.
I’ve enjoyed the pics of your sweet little grands. So cute!
We were in VA with our grands at about the same time. So fun!
I saved your book to start reading in VA. It seemed so right to be reading it just up the road from where it was written. But reading it here in CA is even better…it sorta extends my VA time a little bit. I am really enjoying this book. Not racing through it, but savoring it. Thanks for putting it all down for us.

By: fred

fred — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:51:42 +0000

Oh please don’t mention Annette. It grieves me every time I think about how devastated she must be that we never met and fulfilled her adolescent fantasies. So sad for her. And yes, we drew on the screen–the first interactive video! High tech er whut?

By: Georgia

Georgia — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:42:18 +0000

Did your parents let you get one of the plastic things that could be put on the tv screen so that you could write on it on Winky Dink? Mine wouldn’t– we felt so left out! Did you want to be a Mouseketeer? Remember Annette…Spin and Marty?

By: kenju

kenju — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:25:13 +0000

I used to love watching Tom Terrific with my kids, and all the others mentioned too, except Soupy. We didn’t get his show.

By: Larry S

Larry S — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:55:37 +0000

“Hey Kids, What time is it? Its Howdy Doody Time” What about Phineas T Bluster and voiceless Clarabell with her (his?) horn? I was a fan of Soupy Sales who may have been just a Detroit early morning legend. He had White Fang and Blacktooth, both hand puppets, and a veritable menagerie of “surprise” guests that usually put a cream pie in Soupy’s face, every morning at 7 while I was supposed to be getting ready for school.
Why is it that I can remember all that stuff, yet forget what I went to the store for . . .

By: susan

susan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:27:03 +0000

Pinky Lee, Sandy Becker’s cartoons, Topo Gigio on Ed Sullivan, Gerald McBoing Boing …