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Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on January 25, 2015, 11:38 AM:
 
The show, the man, his great kindness to many, the longest-running performance ever - Here was a dear perosn - Shorty
 
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 25, 2015, 07:03 PM:
 
Shorty,

You are taking me back in time: before cable, before college, even before my left knee started to hurt!

So strange, we had 6 channels back then and about 60,000 these days...still nothing to watch!
 
Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on January 25, 2015, 07:26 PM:
 
I was also a fan of Joe. Always friendly, and his show had an intimate feel to it [Smile]
 
Posted by Joe Vannicola (Member # 4156) on January 25, 2015, 09:30 PM:
 
In 1967, my father was building a coast guard station in Bellmawr, NJ. So my family spent a great deal of our summer at that beach. On of my fondest memories was watching the Joe Franklin Show before going to the beach and seeing the silent comedy shorts he presented. I remember wishing I could get that station back in my home state of Delaware.
 
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on January 26, 2015, 05:56 AM:
 
When we lived in Pennsylvania back in the 60's, the Williamsport Cable Company would carry The Joe Franklin Show from New York, and it was here that I saw for the first time such classics as 42nd Street, Dames, Goldiggers 0f 1933, which just blew me away and made me a lifelong Busby Berkeley fan. I remember Joe chatting in great detail about these films and Berkeley himself. I just loved his show.
 
Posted by Bradford A Moore (Member # 426) on January 26, 2015, 11:16 AM:
 
Very sad. One of my favorite books, was his Classics Of The Silent Screen. Having primarily a silent weekly film series. I don't think a week went by that I didn't open that book for some reason or another.
 
Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on January 26, 2015, 12:17 PM:
 
I knew him for a bit, such a gentle man - We are truly losing great people very quickly
 


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