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comes to us from a listener in Colorado Patty Kingsbaker and well take a listen to this one

it was back in 1962.

I was 12, and my brother, who was 10 years older than me, was getting out of the Air Force.

And he was in California.

So he had made a deal with me, you know, if my grades were really good, that he would fly me out to California

and that I could drive

back with him cross-country when he got out of the Air Force. And of course, I was just beside myself

thinking, oh, my God, we're going to go to Disneyland, and I'm going to get to see Hollywood,

and Hollywood Boulevard and the stars.

And, you know, it's a 12-year-old.

I just, I figured if you went to Hollywood, you were going to see movie stars.

Anyway, so I flew out, and we spent a couple of days in L.A.

We went and saw all the stars on Hollywood Boulevard.

In fact, it was Thanksgiving. It was around Thanksgiving time. He took me to dinner at this

restaurant in Hollywood that was really famous at the time. They actually brought a phone to

our table so that I could call my mom and say, happy Thanksgiving. I was like, I mean, for a 12-year-old, they bring a phone to our table so that I could call my mom and say happy thanks. I was like, I mean,

for a 12-year-old, they bring a phone to the table. Then I looked across the room and I saw,

I went, I know that guy. It was Jesse White, who at the time was the Maytag guy. So, you know, that was my first celebrity sighting.

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