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GLEANINGS FROM THE GROVE

A Backwards Glance

Paul C. Fanning, DTM

We are now into January 2022. I am not going from today’s wall mounted, flat screens in 50”

to comment on the status of the world thus far or 70” so that all can see the program from the
versus last years, nor bore you to death with couch.
my “New Year’s Resolutions” which you know I My favorite spot in those days to watch Yogi
would try to fulfill (but will not). I won’t look into Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and other cartoons

the future and predict that you will be meeting was lying on the floor, propped up on my elbows
a tall dark stranger, go on a cruise, and be very, for the half-hour program just before I went to
very wealthy (which bed. Wow! We even had
would be nice to three channels—ABC,

say but like the CBS, and NBC. Even
resolutions has a then the programs were
slim to no chance of paused for ads several
happening). Instead, times in that half hour.

I chose for this I can still sing a jingle or
month’s Gleanings two from the late 1950’s
a look backward —for Brylcreem, “a little
to commercials dab’l do ya;” Pepsodent,

on television that I “you’ll wonder where the
liked or that spoke yellow went when you
to me. (No, I do not brush your teeth with
hear little voices Pepsodent;” “see the

talking to me in my USA in your Chevrolet:”
head.) and the unforgettable
I remember the first television set our family “Double your pleasure, double your fun, with
owned. It was a huge cabinet in white oak with double good, double good, Doublemint Gum.”

front doors that opened like a cupboard with Yes, some fifty years or more later those
the black and white, smallish screen at the very jingles are still playing in my head along
top. It was crafted to “hide” the fact you had a with dozens of others through the years for
television console in your front room. Far cry beverages, cars, cigarettes and many, many other

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