Brad’s California Adventure: An Unfinished Memoir – Part 1
Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Upon my return from my October 2005 trip to California (which strongly mirrored in many ways my most recent trip this past February), I had the itch to really create some sort of record, writing, scrapbook – whatever – of my misadventures and experiences from the vacation. As this was my ‘pre-website’ days, the only outlet I had was to write them into a Quark document for future possible printing – with photos – ala a newsletter of sorts. (The photo at left was the first one of the trip – Bob on the Walk of Fame). Because this required quite a bit of effort, I never finished it. In fact I only finished the first two days of chronicling the trip. Memory will help me fill in the blanks, but here’s what I had written for day one: Read the rest of this entry »
For many years, Erin Moran had refused to acknowledge her role as Joannie Cunnigham by refusing to participate in any reunions or signing autographs for her fans. The reason was that she had become very religious and felt that some of the Happy Days shows were immoral. This made her autograph highly desirable to me. Eventually, she recanted and has been making numerous public appearances. I don’t know if the almighty dollar adjusted her way of thinking, or if she simply rethought her position. 
In the late 1940’s – long after Hal Roach had sold the rights to his Our Gang series to M-G-M – the Roach studios made an attempt to cash in on the success of their mega-series that had run for well over twenty years between the two studios. This attempt came in the form of another assemblage of young actors in two new films called Curley (1947) and Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948). The efforts were weak at best and not widely accepted as a substitute for the original Little Rascals series.