Making It

January 26th, 2017 by Proprietor

Sadly we are now in an era where we will be seeing more television legends pass. Mary Tyler Moore was a legend among legends for her skills, talent, and ground breaking work. She came into television during it’s infancy, and help mature the genera.

Television is not really an old technology when compared to things like the train or automobile or even airplane. My father grew up without television, and in his teen years, he remembers wealthier friends getting televisions, and eventually his father, my grandfather, working as a television repairman. I am old enough to have lived in a house where there was a black and white television, and it was replaced by a very low definition color television. Television has only been around for sixty years. Because the technology of television has progressed so quickly, we think of it as very old.

Mary Tyler Moore came into television when you had to have talent. She had talent. She could dance, she could sing, she was a quick study, and learned comedy from a master, Dick Van Dyke. She was also good looking in a very natural way. These days everyone looks constructed, like plastic dolls, and act just as badly.

Thank you Mary Tyler Moore, you made it after all.