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Ah, nostalgia.
Aug. 11th, 2013 10:44 amSo CBS has a website where they sell shirts of a lot of their shows. A lot of it's just logos, but there are some with characters. http://www.shoptvcity.com
I was there today, just looking around as I like to do now and then, and I requested them to make a Twilight Zone shirt with David Ellington from The Howling Man on it. An officially made shirt with H.M. Wynant would be so, so awesome. I'm trying to design a shirt with some of his characters to have custom-made for me, but I haven't quite figured out which characters to have represented on it yet (except that I know Coley Rodman will be there). If the place still exists (it's called The Big Tees, LOL), I can get a shirt made up there for $14.95. Last year, I had them make up one of my Hamilton Burger shirt designs. (Squee!)
Anyway, so I was browsing this CBS website and looked at their Andy Griffith shirts. And man, a little wave of nostalgia definitely swept over me. I remembered the summer of about 1998, when I discovered Andy reruns on our Fox affiliate. That was in July, so the whole rest of the summer was very Andy-filled.
Actually, that whole year starting with March was Andy filled. I remember special day-trips all over the valley with Dad, and stopping at various libraries in the City and County systems to pick up books on hold. I remember checking out the Andy Griffith cookbooks and writing down some of the recipes I particularly wanted to save and try.
That was the era when you could go to a bookstore and there would be tons of classic TV books on the shelves. PARADISE. I remember in March, going to Borders and seeing Barney Fife's Guide to Life, Love, and Self-Defense (a hilarious piece), as well as a couple of straight books about the series. I determined then and there that I was going to purchase one, and had it put on hold while I sold short stories around the neighborhood that I'd written with original characters of mine and earned the $10.61 needed to get the book. (I seem to remember dumping a lot of change on the counter at Borders, LOL.) It took all the money I had at that time, with the exception of a few cents (I think), but I found it entirely worth it. I read and re-read that book so much that it got dog-eared and started falling apart. I still have it.
It's funny how my interest in classic TV started. I listened to Mom telling about all those old shows for years, and I was interested and liked the sound of a lot of them, but then for some reason, when I had her tell me for the umpteenth time about Andy Griffith in March of 1998, I suddenly got smacked in the head with a strong desire to finally see the series and a determination to learn more and more. And unlike some whims of mine that came and went in a few days, that interest stayed. And stayed. And blossomed into my explorations into many other classic TV series.
The same thing kind of happened when I decided I wanted oldies music on the radio. I'd loved playing Mom's old records and I wanted to see if any stations were playing similar music. I stumbled across one and was hooked. That led to my interest in The 4 Seasons, The Monkees, The Beatles, and others.
Anyway, Andy Griffith. Even though I really don't care for the episodes where Andy kept disbelieving in Opie (why, why did it keep happening? You'd think Andy would have realized he could trust his son better than that, after what happened in the coat episode and some other early ones), there's still so much good in the show and I love it for those times. Barney. Aunt Bee. Gomer. Floyd....
I think the third and fourth seasons have the highest concentration of my favorite episodes, although 1 and 2 had some great ones as well, and even 5. The very controversial color episodes are generally not among my favorites. I don't like Barney's departure. However, I do like Howard Sprague, and there's some fun episodes with him, Floyd, and Otis in the color years. I also don't tend to mind Warren.
But classic Andy is the B&W seasons, and I could do with some great third and fourth season episodes right now.
I miss that time of innocence and discovery, my excitement over the series, summer nights of watching episodes, and summer days of getting and reading books and trying recipes.
I think specifically, I miss the days of the original blue cookbook, and maybe I'll look for that and try to buy it at long last, if it's still in print. Thinking about that cookbook is bringing back such lovely memories for me, from a time in my life that's long gone now. (And having it would lead to such lovely food!)
I was there today, just looking around as I like to do now and then, and I requested them to make a Twilight Zone shirt with David Ellington from The Howling Man on it. An officially made shirt with H.M. Wynant would be so, so awesome. I'm trying to design a shirt with some of his characters to have custom-made for me, but I haven't quite figured out which characters to have represented on it yet (except that I know Coley Rodman will be there). If the place still exists (it's called The Big Tees, LOL), I can get a shirt made up there for $14.95. Last year, I had them make up one of my Hamilton Burger shirt designs. (Squee!)
Anyway, so I was browsing this CBS website and looked at their Andy Griffith shirts. And man, a little wave of nostalgia definitely swept over me. I remembered the summer of about 1998, when I discovered Andy reruns on our Fox affiliate. That was in July, so the whole rest of the summer was very Andy-filled.
Actually, that whole year starting with March was Andy filled. I remember special day-trips all over the valley with Dad, and stopping at various libraries in the City and County systems to pick up books on hold. I remember checking out the Andy Griffith cookbooks and writing down some of the recipes I particularly wanted to save and try.
That was the era when you could go to a bookstore and there would be tons of classic TV books on the shelves. PARADISE. I remember in March, going to Borders and seeing Barney Fife's Guide to Life, Love, and Self-Defense (a hilarious piece), as well as a couple of straight books about the series. I determined then and there that I was going to purchase one, and had it put on hold while I sold short stories around the neighborhood that I'd written with original characters of mine and earned the $10.61 needed to get the book. (I seem to remember dumping a lot of change on the counter at Borders, LOL.) It took all the money I had at that time, with the exception of a few cents (I think), but I found it entirely worth it. I read and re-read that book so much that it got dog-eared and started falling apart. I still have it.
It's funny how my interest in classic TV started. I listened to Mom telling about all those old shows for years, and I was interested and liked the sound of a lot of them, but then for some reason, when I had her tell me for the umpteenth time about Andy Griffith in March of 1998, I suddenly got smacked in the head with a strong desire to finally see the series and a determination to learn more and more. And unlike some whims of mine that came and went in a few days, that interest stayed. And stayed. And blossomed into my explorations into many other classic TV series.
The same thing kind of happened when I decided I wanted oldies music on the radio. I'd loved playing Mom's old records and I wanted to see if any stations were playing similar music. I stumbled across one and was hooked. That led to my interest in The 4 Seasons, The Monkees, The Beatles, and others.
Anyway, Andy Griffith. Even though I really don't care for the episodes where Andy kept disbelieving in Opie (why, why did it keep happening? You'd think Andy would have realized he could trust his son better than that, after what happened in the coat episode and some other early ones), there's still so much good in the show and I love it for those times. Barney. Aunt Bee. Gomer. Floyd....
I think the third and fourth seasons have the highest concentration of my favorite episodes, although 1 and 2 had some great ones as well, and even 5. The very controversial color episodes are generally not among my favorites. I don't like Barney's departure. However, I do like Howard Sprague, and there's some fun episodes with him, Floyd, and Otis in the color years. I also don't tend to mind Warren.
But classic Andy is the B&W seasons, and I could do with some great third and fourth season episodes right now.
I miss that time of innocence and discovery, my excitement over the series, summer nights of watching episodes, and summer days of getting and reading books and trying recipes.
I think specifically, I miss the days of the original blue cookbook, and maybe I'll look for that and try to buy it at long last, if it's still in print. Thinking about that cookbook is bringing back such lovely memories for me, from a time in my life that's long gone now. (And having it would lead to such lovely food!)
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