A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.
Art LinkletterMy age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.
Art LinkletterRadio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
Art LinkletterYes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well
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