50s/60s kiddie show host and former WNBC radio DJ, Soupy Sales, died Thursday. He was 83. He might hold the pie-throwing record, beating the Three Stooges by a couple thousand pies at least. He had a hit record with a dance tune, Do The Mouse. Not a great tune by any means. But, he was a star and the record did well. $$$

My parents used to talk about “the good old days”. Now, I tell my kids about the “good old days”, and they can’t relate to it. Those were the 60s, before microwave ovens, Ipods, CDs,the Internet. We got our music from KJR radio. We grabbed the comics page of the Tacoma News Tribune in the evening and stretched out in front of the TV. Our parents watched the evening news with Ted Bryant on KING Tv.

We stayed out until way past dark each night, there were no fears of predators, only our own fear of the dark or the big dog behind the wire fence down the alley. We read magazines to find out about what celebrities were up to. Though it was well known among the stars in Hollywood that Rock Hudson was gay, we never would have known. There was no TMZ or Entertainment Tonight. We never heard of scandals, though there certainly must have been things going on that reporters kept secret. Imagine that! People respected each other that much.

 All of our kiddie show hosts were healthy and doing well, Now, they are aged, sickly and dying. We are all getting older. We have memories of our “good old days, when things were very different from the way life is today. It was a slower time. We weren’t hit from all sides with information. TV news was about serious events, not Hollywood news. I think a lot of people today could benefit from a cream pie in the face.

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