Lucille Ball Falls In Love With Encyclopaedia!

When I was a kid Lucy was hawking something called Pivot Golf. It was a game that was a piece of junk, but I had to have it. Of course I did if Lucy was advertising it! You can read all about my childhood including my Lucy obsession in my book "The Little Grownup." 

Here are a few ads Lucy was in...This one was was probably from the 80s and features Lucy in a drawing for Detroit's famous J.L.Hudson's Department Store optical department! I wonder if they got her endorsement for these. There was a whole series featuring celebrity drawings.

 Here's a fun one I cut out of a magazine. Did you know Lucy fell in love with an encylopaedia? I wonder if Gary knew at the time....

Lucy's Fans Keep Coming To the Door

Here's an article from the Detroit Free Press, August 21, 1977. I always wondered what would happen if someone went to Lucy's house in Beverly Hills and knocked on the door. This kind of tells you what happened....

 By the time I got to visit Hollywood, Lucy was gone. I don't know if she would have opened the door for me. Oh well, I can hope she would have made an exception....

Don't know where this picture came from, but it offers a rare look at Lucy and Desi as seniors.....

Lucy: The First 25 Years 1976

In 1976 I was 12 years old! That same year I clipped this article out of the newspaper. CBS was going to have a salute to Lucille Ball's 25th anniversary on television. Wow! As you can see from the article (from the Detroit News most likely), there was hope that this might be a Luci (Luci?) and Desi TV reunion on that show. Well, it didn't happen. Desi saluted Lucy in a filmed segment. But hey, at least he was on the special.

I recall the show very well and in those pre-VCR and dvd days I set up my little cassette recorder and captured some of the audio from that tv show which I listened to for years.

 This is one of the first articles in my Lucy scrapbook started all those years ago. My sister Monika provided the first page art work. She was 11 at the time!

There is a man out there who calls himself "Lucy's Biggest Fan." I'm sure the guy is sincere, but after all these years, this blog will be proof of perhaps a rival he or Lucy never knew of!