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Last night I woke up in the chair, in the middle of watching All In with Chris Hayes\u00a0<\/em>on MSNBC.\u00a0\u00a0Somewhere between the \u201cTrump International Doral\u201d and the \u201cMonmouth Poll\u201d I drifted away.\u00a0\u00a0It reminded me of my father.\u00a0\u00a0I wrote so much that I broke it into parts \u2013 so here\u2019s the first installment of two, of \u201cTurning into Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part One<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jilly and Jampot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When my sisters and I were small, he used to tell us bedtime stories.  Dad was creative, he told us about  Jilly the kangaroo and Jampot the turtle.  (Hey siblings:  did Jilly wear a red bellhop cap and Jampot kind of a floppy black hat, or did I conflate that from somewhere else?)  <\/em>Jilly and Jampot had great adventures, but their stories always seemed to have one problem:  they never ended, or at least, never concluded.  Sometime during the story, as Jilly and Jampot were invariably travelling down a road, the story would dissolve into snores.  It worked; Dad fell asleep, laying beside us.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I usedto make fun of Dad, he had the \u201cDahlman gene.\u201d  He could fall asleep anywhere, anytime, anyplace; but he particularly could fall asleep in front of the TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live on Television<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Funny how a man who made his reputation and livelihood in television would snooze so easily in front of it.\u00a0\u00a0Dad started in television at the beginning in the early 1950\u2019s, when much of television was \u201clive\u201d because there weren\u2019t good ways to store shows.\u00a0\u00a0Videotape wasn\u2019t around yet, and film required time for processing.\u00a0\u00a0Mom and Dad would often be part of the \u201caudience\u201d in those early days in Cincinnati, the whole station staff of WLW-T, including an announcer named Rod Serling (he was already writing scripts that would lead to\u00a0The Twilight Zone)<\/em> would come to fill the studio.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad sold television advertising then, better known as commercials.  After several years at WLW-T, he switched to selling actual television shows to individual stations throughout the country for  Ziv Productions.  You have to be older than me to remember most of them, but a few, like The Cisco Kid, Sea Hunt,<\/em>and Highway Patrol <\/em>(that show popularized the \u201c10-4\u201d signoff) became national hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traveling Man<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sea Hunt<\/em> was a story about a scuba diver, played by actor Lloyd Bridges.\u00a0\u00a0It was the number one rated show in 1958.\u00a0\u00a0Dad travelled all over the country selling it, and we had the little \u201cscuba guys\u201d to play with that he used as trinkets to remind the local station managers about the show.\u00a0\u00a0He told a story about signing one big station; they decided to celebrate their agreement by signing the contact underwater.\u00a0Dad didn\u2019t know a thing about scuba gear, but gamely went down to make sure the contract was signed.\u00a0\u00a0He said he damn near drowned, but he closed the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad was a travelling salesman.\u00a0\u00a0Through my early life in the late 1950\u2019s and early 60\u2019s, he was on the road Monday through Friday.\u00a0\u00a0Sometimes he would fly, but quite often Dad was driving the car with the license plate \u201cDD 19.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0DD was Don Dahlman, and was his plate for at least fifty years (it\u2019s on my Jeep now.)\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019d call from Des Moines or Chicago, and we\u2019d see him on the weekends.\u00a0\u00a0He had lots of stories from his travels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One was about a quick flight.  New York was the center for television broadcasting, and Dad was late.  He rushed to the airport, jumped out of his car, and barely made it onboard.  It was two days later, on his way home, that he couldn\u2019t quite remember where he parked the car.  He arrived at Cincinnati Airport, then realized he left it right in front of the terminal.  Luckily they hadn\u2019t towed it too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The travelling became so embedded, that thirty years later, the night after heart surgery, the nurses found Dad wandering the halls, dragging wires and tubes behind him.  He had a meeting in Indianapolis, he thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayton, Ohio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By 1962, Dad tired of being on the road.  Ziv sold the company to United Artists, and Dad went back to work for Avco, the company that owned WLW-T.  He became the sales manager of WLW-D in Dayton, Ohio, and soon rose to station manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayton was a booming town in the late 1960\u2019s.  Wright Patterson Air Force Base was the major employer (still is) with several Air Force Commands headquartered there.  National Cash Register (NCR) was a founding industry in Dayton, as well as Delco (the electric car starter was invented by a Dayton native, Charles Kettering.) Frigidaire had an assembly plant in town, and the University of Dayton was there, so there were plenty of jobs around. Sadly, all but the University and the Air Force Base have now left the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad had \u201cgrown up\u201d with live television, and the \u201cWLW\u201d stations (it really didn\u2019t mean world\u2019s lowest wages, <\/em>did it?) all produced their own variety shows.  WLW-D had the Johnny Gilbert Show<\/em>, featuring the host\u2019s singing talents.  Johnny went to find his fortune in Hollywood (you know him today, \u201c\u2026Johnny, tell them what they won,\u201d <\/em>on The Price is Right<\/em>) and Dad put Phil Donahue in the time slot for a 60-minute news\/talk show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the Caller There?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Donahue\u00a0<\/em>changed television. The mid-1960\u2019s was still the time when most women were \u201chomemakers.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0They had TV\u2019s on during the day, and the\u00a0Donahue\u00a0<\/em>show aired from 10 to 11 am.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of presenting songs, dances, and how to best get the dishes clean, Phil talked about the real issues of the time.\u00a0\u00a0It was the sixties:\u00a0\u00a0civil rights, Vietnam, women\u2019s rights, the draft, hippies; there was a lot to talk about.\u00a0The \u201chook\u201d of the show was a phone.\u00a0Viewers could call in and ask questions of the guest, or Phil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phil did a show about \u201cLittle Baby Brother,\u201d a male doll that had all of the appropriate anatomical parts.\u00a0\u00a0The idea was that it would educate girls about the differences in anatomy. People wanted to talk about that, so much so that the phone lines jammed.\u00a0\u00a0Dayton Bell, the local phone company, couldn\u2019t handle the load and phone service for the south part of Dayton crashed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phil also interviewed Jerry Rubin, one of the Chicago Seven charged with causing riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention.\u00a0\u00a0Rubin was known for his \u201ccolorful\u201d language, he dropped the \u201cF-Bomb\u201d a lot.\u00a0\u00a0It was the 1960\u2019s, a TV station that aired such language could lose their broadcast license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The station had to have some way of \u201cbleeping\u201d language, but there wasn\u2019t the technology for what we now call tape delay.\u00a0\u00a0So the engineers set up two videotape machines, one to record, and the other, literally across the room, to playback the show onto the air.\u00a0\u00a0There was a stretch of videotape going across between the two machines, and Dad was on the \u201cbleep\u201d button on the broadcast side:\u00a0\u00a0he made sure he kept WLW-D\u2019s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow – The Second Installment of Turning into Dad<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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