WJNA's Chuck Zink (Skipper Chuck) in Hospice After Stroke

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WJNA's Chuck Zink (a/k/a Skipper Chuck), a south Florida
radio and TV legend since the 1950s, is in a hospice
after stroke on Monday. He isn't expected to recover.

This is very sad and very hard to write, so please ...

See Jose Lambiet's column in Palm Beach Post:

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Saturdasy morning's Miami Herald added:

In 1972, according to estimates, nearly half of all televisions in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties regularly tuned in to Zink's show.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by 954 on 12/24/05 12:00 PM.</FONT></P>

 

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This guy was huge locally in Miami. He was the guy that everyone who lived there knew and no one who visited knew. I also read that his wife his too ill to visit him. It is too bad.

> WJNA's Chuck Zink (a/k/a Skipper Chuck), a south Florida
> radio and TV legend since the 1950s, is in a hospice
> after stroke on Monday. He isn't expected to recover.
>
> This is very sad and very hard to write, so please ...
>
> See Jose Lambiet's column in Palm Beach Post:
>
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/celebri> ties/content/entertainment/celebrities/lambiet/1223jose.html
>
>
> Saturdasy morning's Miami Herald added:
>
> In 1972, according to estimates, nearly half of all
> televisions in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties
> regularly tuned in to Zink's show.
>
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[Ai4i]

I must have been about four or five years old when my mother took me downtown to be on Popeye's Playhouse.
I remember it as if it were just half a century ago.
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> I must have been about four or five years old when my mother
> took me downtown to be on Popeye's Playhouse.
> I remember it as if it were just half a century ago.
> I always wanted to meet the man as an adult.

You wouldn't happen to have a picture, would you?

I think his program started in '57.

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[Ai4i]

>
> You wouldn't happen to have a picture, would you?
>
> I think his program started in '57.
>
> ;-)
>

No pic, but such being the case...wait, dead braincells are coming back to life:
We got our first TV, an RCA twenty one inch monochrome table top model in 1958. I had to be at least seven years old. With it, I would eventually learn about centering devices, deflection yokes, AGC's, and how to get the TV to scan backwards, "Get over here, why can't we read the words on the screen?"
It would be nice if the Skipper or someone at channel four kept a guestbook with all the children's names and the dates they appeared.

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I'm putting a tribute page together at www.chuckzink.com

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> > I must have been about four or five years old when my
> mother
> > took me downtown to be on Popeye's Playhouse.
> > I remember it as if it were just half a century ago.
> > I always wanted to meet the man as an adult.
>
> You wouldn't happen to have a picture, would you?
>
> I think his program started in '57.
>
> ;-)
>