Love, Exciting and New...

No, that's not "Doc" Adam Briker (Bernie Kopell) with cruise director Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes) aboard the Princess Pacific. And although, more than likely smaller than a dingy on the luxury liner and most certainly not able to provide yardage enough for a musical production by Ann Miller complete with as many back up dancers that would have made Ziegfeld envious, this black and white version of the love boat was a romantic and comic tale of the passengers aboard just the same.

The sweethearts aboard this love boat are my parents, sans sand, sans wedding bands, and sans children. They were courting and their love was exciting and new! The era was post WWll, when men were men and women were glad of it and when women had the cutest figures and greatest clothes in the history of wardrobes! Her little two piece nautical number is ideal for floating off toward the horizon to watch the sunset. I doubt if it crossed her mind while hanging on to her hunky beau that her daughter some 60 years later would be oh-ing and ah-ing over the clothes she chose for that days voyage, but here I am doing just!

Thanks Mom for your love of fashion and your sense of style, (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree), and for your romantic tale, 60 years in the making, what a tale it is!

Now Mom, I realize you'd say the sound track to your story would be something sung by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, but in keeping with the theme of this post Jack Jones will have to make due! http://classic-tv.com/TheLoveBoatThemeSong.html

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