Among the viewer comments about the "License To Drive" broadcast on Friday was this gem from "Charley", who pointed out that there was Drivers' Education long before the 1970's statewide start in the county where he went to school...
"Yes, I graduated from Tuscaloosa High in 1959. Coach Billy Henderson was the instructor of the drivers ed program. A local auto dealer contributed a new car each year for the drivers ed use. We students actually drove the car in "city" traffic. Traffic was not nearly so hectic then as it is now.
By the way, I listened to The Tim Lennox show on talk radio in Jefferson County for lots of years. You went away for a short span, then you were back. I always listened from my car. I delivered a rural mail route...so, you were my only company in the afternoons. Paul Harvey at noon was also good company.
I don't have a clue how a Yankee boy like you fit into Birmingham radio so well, but you did, and that is to your credit."
Though I was in fact born a Yankee, I am happy to report that I was recently proclaimed a true Southerner by the one and only Bobby Horton, the Birmingham musician who's fine work is heard on Ken Burns "Civil War" and "Baseball" and more. And if Bobby's endorsement isn't enough, then I don't know what is. (-:
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