Of uncredited tollhouse keepers and unfinished stories.

Click to enlarge: Tom Fadden was the uncredited actor who played the Tollhouse Keeper in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

(Missed a couple days due to Thanksgiving festivities. Will post a few pictures. Diners at the Clarence household said the meal was wonderful.)

I always wanted to write a story about an old man who lived in a remote railway shack who had some critical but trivial job that required a real person to be at the switch. Sort of a lighthouse keeper by a railroad.

His name would be Sookie and he would at some point be cutting off a chaw of tobacco.

He would have looked a little like the tollhouse keeper in It’s a Wonderful LIfe, isolated and comfortable, but he’d be older, slower, hunched.

I’ve had this image for 40 years or more, but this is as far as the story ever got.

[2013-11-27]

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I’m sure this was an oversight, but some honest mistakes endure as long as dishonest ones. Costco labeled a bible as "fiction."

Costco apologizes for California bible flap >

[2013-11-20]

 

 

 

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