{"id":2979,"date":"2008-08-14T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2008-08-14T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T01:49:00","slug":"engineer-bill-has-taken-his-last-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Engineer Bill Has Taken His Last Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sob. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-stulla15-2008aug15,0,7686210.story\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Engineer Bill&#8221; Stulla has died at age 97<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Folks who read this journal should know by now about Sheriff John. John Rovick was one of the better known children&#8217;s television hosts in the 1960s in Los Angeles. Along with folks like &#8220;Hobo Kelly&#8221; (Sally Baker), &#8220;Engineer Bill&#8221; Stulla, and others, they entertained and educated millions and millions of children. Well, Engineer Bill has just passed (although I think Rovick and Baker are still alive&#8211;we lost another one, Paul Winchell, quite a few years ago).<\/p>\n<p>In memory of the good times he brought, I invite you (if you&#8217;re old enough to remember children&#8217;s television hosts on local TV stations), to share your favorite memory of children&#8217;s television, be it in Los Angeles, or other cities (Wallace and Ladmo, Capt Sacto, or the numerous skippers, captains, clowns, or cowboys out there). Did you watch Dusty&#8217;s Treehouse? That&#8217;s Cat? C&#8217;mon, share your memories and have a cold glass of milk for Engineer Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Green Light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sob. &#8220;Engineer Bill&#8221; Stulla has died at age 97. Folks who read this journal should know by now about Sheriff John. John Rovick was one of the better known children&#8217;s television hosts in the 1960s in Los Angeles. Along with folks like &#8220;Hobo Kelly&#8221; (Sally Baker), &#8220;Engineer Bill&#8221; Stulla, and others, they entertained and educated <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2979\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,184],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-childhood","tag-childrens-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}