I wonder what ever happened to that country I grew up in.
Posted on 01/10/2013 10:16:45 AM PST by massmike
Boston TV icon Rex Trailer died Wednesday night, his family announced on his website Thursday.
Trailer, 84, was the host of the popular children’s television show “Boomtown,” on WBZ-TV from 1956 to 1974. The program often included children with disabilities in the studio audience.
Trailer, who lived in Sudbury, was in Florida for Christmas visiting his sister when he came down with pneumonia and went into the hospital.
His family issued this brief statement:
Rex Trailer left this earth peacefully last night surrounded in love and song by his family. Rex had been in Florida for the holidays when he became ill into the New Year. While everyone’s prayers and support have been of great comfort to Rex, he decided it was time to go home. Rex and family thank all of you and love you.
A memorial service in honor of Rex to give tribute to his life and legacy is being planned in the near future but for now, the family requests privacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.cbslocal.com ...
About Big Brother, he used to do the Pledge of Allegiance and play Hail To the Chief while showing a portrait of Ike on the wall. This is funny because, a few years back, I heard some celebrity, I can’t remember who, say they had the same problem with this that I had. He said that grew up believing Ike’s name was “Richard Stands”. LOL! “...and to the republic, for Richard Stands...” I thought I was the only one who goofed that one up.
Some of them date from the early to mid 1960s. I remember them all....
When I was in sixth grade a new kid from out of state, who left after a year, insisted that he had seen me on Boomtown, and that I was too embarrassed to admit it. In fact I would not have been embarrassed at all, the kid was just mistaken.
I saw Rex at the Marshfield Fair when I was about ten. He could actually do all that cowboy stuff — horse riding and rope tricks.
RIP.
Now, the grass is always greener
in the other fellows yard
The little row, we have to hoe
Oh boy that's hard
And if we all could wear
green glasses now
it wouldn't be so hard
To see how green the grass is in our
owwwwwnnnn
baaaaack
yard.
I wonder what ever happened to that country I grew up in.
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