Buddy's Blog

Bob K told me in Comments that he used to watch Chief Halftown in the 60’s. Way long after me. My card is from 1948 or 49. Chief Halftown’s show was out of Philly.

But my biggest treasure is my 1947 Howdy Doody for President button. It was before Howdy became a cowboy. That first year he was a clown puppet. Buffalo Bob Smith did all the voices of the puppets. I met Buffalo Bob when I was about 30 years old. I showed him my button, and he called me up in front of the crowd. As he talked to me he put his arm around me just like he did with the little kids when he had his show. It was really, really special for me.

I told Andy W that I would post a photo of U-No-Hoo in my Tonto outfit. 

This was our first trip to Florida. We stopped at a Seminole village. My mother was inspired that I should be like an Indian. There she is.

I was also a member of Chief Halftown’s tribe when I was in Pennsylvania before we moved to Florida. I think I still might have my membership card. Chief Halftown had a kids’ TV show out of Philly in the late 40’s. I’ll see if I can find the card..

Sid’s mom is still visiting…

This is Andy W taken about a hundred years ago:

Mighty cute, Andy. And I’ll bet you just got better looking every year.  Does anybody else have a sailor suit picture? I never was in the Navy, but my father was in WWI. He was 16 when he enlisted. My Swedish grandmother, Jenny, lied about his age so he could join.

This is from 2007…

Dave H just opened the door re: my sailor suit photo. He insinuated that it was my high school picture. Not quite Dave. I was even cuter in god ol’ Sea Cow High:

  Ain’t I cute?!

Hey, that’s what I used to wear.Want to see me in my sailor suit?

We had one last day in San Diego before flying back to Tampa. While there we visited Old Town San Diego, about ten miles north of the harbor. It was interesting and worth visiting. It was like what they called it, an old California town – shops and businesses and residences like you would have found in the late 1900’s.  

We ate there at Fiesta de Reyes, and the food was pretty tasty. And the good news is, that’s the last of my vacation pictures.

On the way back from Hawaii we stopped in Ensenada, probably because they had to hit a foreign port for some reason. Ensenada is a crummy town. We took the bus downtown, turned right around and came back.

There was one thing worth seeing there:

Magnus wanted to meet Sid’s Mom. This is from 1998.

For a while, way back when, I had P.O. Box 66. That was in Oakton VA.