Comments on: Things I Should Throw Out: The TV King On A Soapbox http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/#comment-18041 Derrick Bostrom Tue, 20 May 2008 00:43:11 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/#comment-18041 Thanks, Jim! You must be a Vanishing Tucsoner! Thanks, Jim! You must be a Vanishing Tucsoner!

]]> By: Jim Jenkins http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/#comment-18032 Jim Jenkins Sat, 17 May 2008 17:06:08 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/#comment-18032 What an awesome thing to not throw out (till now). I grew up with this local pitchman and I remember how careful he was to always say "This is Jack Fitzgerald - A Color TV King" as opposed to (what Jack must have considered too presumptuous) "The Color TV King." There was plenty of room for other TV Kings in Jacks' world so he didn't need to overreach. I always found that grammatically strange and yet somehow endearing for a man that i despised for throwing a monkey wrench into Arizonas' anomalous bastion of liberal democratic power down here in Tucson. Imagine what kind of a leisure-suit pompador televangelist powerhouse that guy could have been if he had only been raised Baptist. Thanks to you and Jack K.for the blast from the past What an awesome thing to not throw out (till now).
I grew up with this local pitchman and I remember how careful he was to always say “This is Jack Fitzgerald - A Color TV King” as opposed to (what Jack must have considered too presumptuous) “The Color TV King.” There was plenty of room for other TV Kings in Jacks’ world
so he didn’t need to overreach. I always found that grammatically strange and yet somehow endearing for a man that i despised for throwing a monkey wrench into Arizonas’ anomalous bastion of liberal democratic power down here in Tucson.
Imagine what kind of a leisure-suit pompador televangelist powerhouse that guy could have been if he had only been raised Baptist.
Thanks to you and Jack K.for the blast from the past

]]> By: John Long http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/#comment-14134 John Long Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:55:18 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/07/24/things-i-should-throw-out-the-tv-king-on-a-soapbox/#comment-14134 Always cool to read in these pages about the place I live. Thanks Derrick. The first thing I thought of was the Color TV King sign. I was going to ask you if it was a relic of this merchant's empire. I'm glad I at least waited to see that you had linked to a pic of it. Last I checked, there was a comic book store in this location - although it has been some time since I passed that location in the daytime. Always cool to read in these pages about the place I live. Thanks Derrick.

The first thing I thought of was the Color TV King sign. I was going to ask you if it was a relic of this merchant’s empire. I’m glad I at least waited to see that you had linked to a pic of it. Last I checked, there was a comic book store in this location - although it has been some time since I passed that location in the daytime.

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