Pets in Petaluma

Snoopy at Petaluma

In 1968, Snoopy attempted to enter the World Wrist Wrestling Championship in Petaluma, CA, only to be disqualified for not having a thumb. This week in Petaluma, Jon Provost of “Timmy and Lassie” voted on the world’s ugliest dog, with a boxer named Pabst being awarded the distinction.

Jon Provost

Jon’s super-duper tell-all autobiography, written with his wife Laurie Jacobson, Timmy’s In the Well is a great read, with many Hollywood stories, concentrating on the staid Fifties into the Swinging Sixties. Timmy never did fall in a well on the TV show, but as I pointed out a couple of years ago, a cartoon version of Timmy did fall in a well, in a Kenner Give-a-Show slide, and today that slide was given the Give-A-Show Projector Blog treatment.

7 thoughts on “Pets in Petaluma”

  2. Damn! I’d pay admission to be there! Just like old times. You should hang up a cheap bamboo curtain instead of a tarp to make it more realistic 😉 (inside joke)

  3. Paul — Last night I did a proof of concept with a “driveway drive-in” using my video projector. If the mosquitoes aren’t too bad on the 4th, I’m hoping to have a neighborhood movie night using a tarp hanging over the garage door as a screen. This is the same sort of thing I enjoyed doing as a kid with my Kenner Super Show projector.

  4. Jon — You’re doing a great job with the Kenner Give-a-Show videos! I really enjoy them a lot. Your concept and delivery are perfect.

    You won’t be disappointed when you meet Provost. He’s lots of fun to talk to, and sincerely interested in what others have to say.

  5. Nice to see my videos being embedded elsewhere! Jon Provost and I have been at the same convention at least two times, but I never had the pleasure of meeting him, sadly…

  6. Doug,
    Thanks for the great link to the Give-A-Show Projector site!…It sure brings back memories…Paul Howley

  7. I’ve recently started volunteering at the local SPCA. I love it, though cleaning out stinky dog runs is not for the faint of heart. You wouldn’t believe some of the lovable but butt-ugly mutts they have up for adoption! We’ve fallen in love with all of them. Best of all, this chapter is “adoption only,” NO euthanasia! Jon would approve.

    I remember the whole Petaluma gag. It actually put that town back on the map, and increased tourism to the city, didn’t it?

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