How can you not smile when Jean Jacques Perrey is playing? I've been trying to convince the guys at work that JJP is the ultimate feel good music for the work day. They have been strongly disagreeing with me, but I am still fighting the good fight!
My older brother was on this show and I tagged along, I guess I just sat there and cried the whole time. I still have my button even though I was being a little bitch. Years later Mr. Rod MC'd the Milk Carton races at the Rose Festival. Ours' fell apart and we got in a big fight in the middle of the Westmoreland Pond over whose fault it was, and Mr. Rod was doing this pro-wrestling play-by-play. Years and years later I work at the old KTPV building (now the Hampton Opera Center) and you can still find some cool old shit in the basement if you snoop around.
Not this year. The park is pretty much gone for the time being. They're turning it into a Salmon run, which is pretty swell, but I grew up right by that park. The races are coming back in 2015 though.
I grew up between television markets, so I was lucky enough to have Ramblin' Rod in Portland and Ranger Charlie and Roscoe in Tacoma. Ranger Charlie gave me my first remembered boner.
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