Hello, everyone!

I just found this bulletin board tonight -- it's great!

I remember "Chico and the Man" well when it first came on. In fact, Chico babysat for my sisters and me while my parents went bowling Friday nights. (He was assisted by Jim Rockford.)

I had a crush on Freddie then and, after watching the re-runs on TVLand, realized I do now, too. I felt a little guilty about it, now being a married lady and all (and quite a few years older than Chico), so I was really glad to read some of the discussions here.

I was searching the Net for more information on Freddie, Sr. As you might expect, I found a lot of stuff on Freddie Jr., and stuff about Freddie Sr.'s death. I was wondering if there's anything out there about what Freddie Sr. was like as a person. Does anyone know?

Thanks in advance and looking forward to talking with some of you on this board.

Flora

Welcome Flora, don't feel guilty, your a member of a club with many married ladies who still have it bad for Freddie. It's great to have you aboard. It's always great to share our memories, insights and fantasies with new members. Keep on posting and make sure to take the time to read all this message board has to offer. It's worth the time to go through past messages and respond frequently. Again Welcome to the FP therapy group!

Hey Flora, I just read you bio info, we don't live too far from each other. It's good to see another easterner on the list. I believe that many of our frequent posters are fron the mid-west or the west. Go east coast.

Luckymama, thanks for the welcome. Interesting that there are few easterners on board. I wonder why.

Yes, I am looking forward to catching up on all the messages. It will be a real treat between checking e-mail's and updating my accounts in Quicken. (Especially those comments in club hubba-hubba -- RED HOT!)

Rhode Island welcomes a fellow East coaster-nice to have you aboard!! Allow me to properly introduce myself-my name is Esmerelda and I am one of the Chico-loonies who resides on this web site. We get pretty crazy sometimes but basically we are all nice,ordinary people who belong to Club Hubba Hubba. When one of us gets too steamed up and hot one of the others throws a bucket of ice water on us or tells us t go take a cold shower so feel free to have the bucket at the ready in case we need it and we will do the same for you as we all support each other and share our most intimate fantasies and observations about Freddie and chico.
So welcome-come on in the water is ice cold!!!!

Esmerelda

Welcome aboard the Freddie Prinze ship Flora.be free to sail away with everyone on the message board with your thoughts and questions on freddie.i am a california girl (smile). this message board is a place to cry, laugh, and enjoy. Tracy

Welcome Flora. Right now I'm drenched from the last Club Hubba Hubba statement I made! I'm also from the east. New York!

Hey Jenny, I used to live in the NYC area. I can really relate to FP standup when he talks about the old neighborhood. I know those places. I just grew up near there a few years after he moved from NYC. I missed him by > < this much. What a shame!

I evidently missed him by only a year or so when I lived in California. He lived in Van Nuys when he first came out there and also moved his parents there later. I moved away from Van Nuys in 1973! We coulda been neighbors, and who knows what might have been? LOL Yeah, right!

What IF? What a thought. I actually was born in NYC, but lived on Long Island. We went to the city all the time though and I am familiar with the places he talks about. I always wished I was old enough around the time he was doing stand up in the clubs in NYC. THAT would have been something to see. I know people say those were his formative years in standup and he was a little green, but Hey, I'd don't care what color he was HAHA. He was the best.

Although, Freddie and I were the same age I didn't know to go to those places. I first saw him on the Johnny Carson show. Then I heard his album. He was hysterical back then. He was one of the best comics. David Brenner, Bill Cosby, I think Richard Pryor, Rich Little were all in the forefront back then.

Yea, I did not know him then either till he was in CA, and I was 4 years younger then Freddie. My parents were understanding, but not THAT understanding when I was 14. So I don't think I would be in those clubs. (Something about being a minor!!!) It would have been fun though.

Wow!
It was great to see so many replies the next time I get back to the bb. Thanks for the welcome.

Yes, I'm looking forward to diving in to Club Hubba Hubba. I'm still seeing episodes for the first time (since I was 11), and I'm always looking for those kissing scenes. (YIKES!)

Can't say that I ever came close to being in Freddie's neighborhood or seeing him in a comedy club, but he and I do share a similar ethnic heritage. I'm also Hungarian-German. A distant cousin, perhaps? Has anyone researched the genealogy of the Pruetzels?

Anyway, keep those posts coming. This is like a 24-7 Fan Convention!

Originally posted by Luckymama58:
Hey Flora, I just read you bio info, we don't live too far from each other. It's good to see another easterner on the list. I believe that many of our frequent posters are fron the mid-west or the west. Go east coast.

I'm originally from Maryland, and all of you easterners are making me homesick! I'm now stuck here in "corn-country hell", as I like to call it. Maybe someday, I'll get my husband to agree to move!

The state of VA checking in here!

Go, VA!

Is your town really called Pixley? I've never heard of that one...

Cheryl, in the episode where Chico dreams Ed goes to live in a retirement home, did you also wonder why Chico's new female assistant had the abbreviation for "Virginia" printed on her shirt twice? LOL!

I never noticed that in that episode. It's been so long since I'd seen them until the TVLAND marathon. I just started watching them again when the marathon came on TVLAND as that's the first time it's been on tv around here since the 70's. & During the marathon & ever since then I've been watching them again & enjoying them & have really gotten into them lately.

Actually I'm not from Pixley LOL! Actually Central VA. That's a joke referring to the town of Pixley on the Green Acres & Petticoat Junction tv shows from the 60's. An inside joke around here is the county is Pixley & Town is Hooterville LOL!

I love watching a million old classic 50's/60's/70's tv shows everything from Andy Griffith to Dick Van Dyke to Green Acres, To Petticoat Junction to My 3 Sons to Emergency to Mary Tyler Moore, & half a million others with Chico being one of the half a million old shows I love.

[Edited for spelling errors LOL!]

[This message has been edited by Cheryl Harrell (edited 04-01-2001).]

I should've recognized Pixley from those old shows!

I like the sitcoms from that era, too. I used to watch Nick at Nite all the time, pre-TVLand, but haven't watched it much since it seems most of their shows are now from the 70s -80s.

When I was little, my favorite shows were "My Favorite Martian," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dick Van Dyke." (I think some of these were already in syndication by the time I saw them. I also LOVE the original Star Trek series.)

In the "Chico" era, I also liked "The Rockford Files" and "Sanford and Son." Also Tony Orlando's show, although for some reason I don't remember seeing Freddie on it.

If you watch the Chico episode where Ed retires again, take a look at the scene where Ed comes back to visit the garage and you'll see "Va va." Although, it's hard to focus on her when Freddie's standing around in his Elvis costume. ZOWIE!! LOL.

Wonder what the sigificance of the VA on the shirt is?