It’s really a crying shame that entertainers like Soupy Sales, who were iconic in the minds of the baby boomer generation, are quickly hurling toward obscurity. As host of the wildly popular kids show Lunch With Soupy Sales, he regaled millions of children from 1959-1966. Today, even folks like me, who have certainly heard of Soupy Sales – and perhaps even seen him on game shows like What’s My Line? from the 1970’s – really don’t have much of a clue what he was all about.
Still I recognized that to many, Soupy Sales was a legend. So I took the chance and wrote him a fan letter in late 1997 and was rewarded with a personally signed recent photo and two signed notecards. I was certainly glad that I had taken this opportunity after hearing the outcry of fans all over the country when Sales passed away last year, in October of 2009.
Autographs of 1997 will continue…
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