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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 235885" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>I grew up watching it.  Tommy was a few years older than me and I remember buying clothes like his and wanting my hair like his (my mom wouldn’t go for long hair).  I think it was the comfort and chemistry that the show provided at the time.  Flo, Belle, Jolene all played into that country type of the time, like Dukes of Hazard, and Alice was an ideal mother trying to work and raise her kid in her own at at times where that was becoming common place, even among married women, and then these’s something about a diner/bar type place where everybody knows your name that we all wanted to have.  So it was just a nice place to be once a week.  Oh and Alice was always trying to make it big in show business - that’s the true American Dream, to make it big.  I do miss Alice and Tommy in a way I’d only miss old neighbors.</p></blockquote><p></p>