Sam Purtill

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My mom was a producer at PBS Channel 11 in Chicago before I was born - and, among other things, she worked closely with Mr. Rogers.She told me that he was one of the kindest men she’d ever met - EXACTLY THE SAME IN PERSON as he was in his onscreen “Mr. Rogers” persona, echoing the sentiments of this article in Mental Floss magazine (a magazine to which I subscribed for some time!)My favorite paragraph in the article: According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.” That made me smile. Mr. Rogers is officially my role model. — juliaallison

My mom was a producer at PBS Channel 11 in Chicago before I was born - and, among other things, she worked closely with Mr. Rogers.

She told me that he was one of the kindest men she’d ever met - EXACTLY THE SAME IN PERSON as he was in his onscreen “Mr. Rogers” persona, echoing the sentiments of this article in Mental Floss magazine (a magazine to which I subscribed for some time!)

My favorite paragraph in the article:

According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

That made me smile.

Mr. Rogers is officially my role model.

— juliaallison

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  1. sloaneberrent reblogged this from juliaallison and added:
    I’m from Pittsburgh, so we grew up with not only a healthy dose of Mr. Rogers on the TV, but also a healthy dose of him...
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  5. onemoretimewithfeeling reblogged this from juliaallison and added:
    That is really a sweet story. When my car was stolen, not even the mother-fathering police would help.
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