¹ – If you’ve watched PBS and seen shows underwritten by the John D. This was a good way to spend the afternoon. I don’t get to see John every single time I’m here, but I try to. Glad to see that just because he’s older, he doesn’t have to look old. We are family men – me in spite of myself. This one small act would have been so foreign to us in 1970, yet now it is so appropriate. I tried to show him some tricks on his weather graphics computer (it is 2 versions behind the current version, so what I tried didn’t work).īefore long I was showing him pictures of my family and he showed me pictures of his. I told John I was in town and this afternoon headed up to WPEC Channel 12, where he works. He left West Palm Beach for a while and headed back to Detroit… and came back. He did it first, long before I figured out it was a pretty good gig. Sometimes, even the stamp was incorporated into his drawing.Īs John grew up, he became a TV weatherman. The entire envelope would be a flowing, interconnected cartoon. ![]() He would send letters back home to his family in the suburbs of Detroit. I remember John as a talented amateur cartoon artist. In my apartment everything was all over the place. ![]() In his apartment, everything was in its place. We were both out-of-towners in a strange and, at that time, small southern city. John was doing mornings at WEAT, a station owned by eccentric gazillionaire John D. He’s a few years older, but our careers were on a similar path.īack then I was hopping from station to station. It’s not the kind of thing you ever forget.īack when I lived in the West Palm Beach area, I was friendly with another radio disk jockey. There are few who live near here who remember the last time a hurricane actually struck. This hurricane season was a rude awakening. ![]() After this past hurricane season there is no more laughing at other people’s climatological misfortunes. Back then people would laugh at the northerners when we’d see their winter weather predicaments. There have been a few brief sprinkles, and today was mainly cloudy, but it’s been warm with acceptable levels of humidity. Here’s a guy who is p.o.’ed at my for a forecast I never laid my eyes on.Īs long as we’re talking weather, Florida has been phenomenal. It is an interesting part of my job I never expected. So, how do you respond to that? I’m not sure myself. It’s high noon here, 36 degrees, and dead calm. Comments: Great call yesterday on the 60 degrees and windy.
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