Budapest, 1965. Back in the early 1960s, I used to watch a children's show on TV called Diver Dan. It featured a diver dressed in an old-fashioned diving suit. The show included a lot of fish (puppets) with names like Baron Barracuda, Trigger, and Finley Haddock. It was all great fun. Not hard to see why this photo reminded me of that show!

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Episode 524 – Thomas Woodruff

Virtual Memories Show 524: Thomas Woodruff “You have to say, ‘I’m going to do this, and I’m going to do it beautifully,’ which is kind of a queer sensibility: I want o…

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