What makes it funny is I wonder about the studio conversation when forming the Foo Fighters David Grohl asking “Hey, anyone know a drummer?”
Rest of your post reads like an autobiography, though. I saw Star Wars, Wrath of Khan, Raiders of the Lost ark in the theater and still feel the best sitcom ever made was Taxi.
Yeah, Danny DeVito, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd, Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch, and who could forget Andy Kaufman as Latka? For the time, it’s right up there with Barney Miller, Soap, Welcome Back Kotter, Night Court, and WKRP.
Soupy Sales, Crusader Rabbit, Romper Room, Sheriff John as well as Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Our first TV set looked like a giant oscilloscope with a small, round picture.
You remember when “The Wizard of Oz.” was very special to see on Television.
And, everyone older than you, aren’t much older.
You know what a “church key” is for.
I’m old enough to remember party lines on landline phones…Ya know…the ones with cords that plug into the little socket on the wall?
That and rotary phones…Tick tick tick tick tick tick ti…Dammit…and had to start all over!
My Sears Beta player died a few years ago. I donated a large box of Beta tapes to a dude who works at a gaming store. They were all High End Sonys too.