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| April 8, 2025 |
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Ignoring
Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty Harry" that
opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to
yourself.
| It's
Getting Older Than We Think Out There |
 Jay
North rose to fame as a child, playing Dennis Mitchell in
the ''Dennis the Menace'' sitcom that ran from 1959 to 1963.
The actor went on to star in the movies Zebra in the Kitchen
and Maya. He reprised his role in a television series based
on the latter. The Dennis character was based on the
newspaper comic strip created by Hank Ketcham in 1951 and is
still published in at least 1,000 papers in 48 countries and
in 19 languages.
It's getting older than we think
out there. Who is next? My grandmother used to say "things
happen in threes".
Recently, I had to drop
three old friends from my email list, one died, the other
two have been slipping into dementia and can no longer
figure out their computers or smartphones.
I have
to avoid some topics with a fourth, he's older than I, and
because he never owned a television set, and his parents
never had one, he wouldn't know who Jay North was. It is
interesting to learn how many people, or events, life-long
television viewers know about, and those who didn't have
such a device in their lives don't know about much of that.
When
I was six, the Dayton's department store truck pulled up in
front of our house in North Minneapolis (a war-zone now) and
delivered our new 13" black & white television. I
think it cost my dad almost a month's pay. That evening, and
I remember it was a Tuesday, because the first show we
watched was comedian Milton Berle walking around on the
sides of his shoes. He became known as "Mr. Tuesday
Night". All, and I mean all of our neighbors
came over, bringing their Samonite folding chairs to watch
the first television set in the block, the living room was
packed.
Great memories.
A fifth friend,
someone I've known for almost 50 years, is still sharp as a
tack and listens to the news every day. But he has gone
almost completely blind and can no longer read emails, but
says he can still "watch" television and follow
along in his minds-eye.
Please visit
my
travel blog to learn more about my life on the road.
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