Pages That Should Exist...

...but don't.

Y'ever go looking for a particular page on the web, and discover that it doesn't exist? I mean, you go looking for something straightforward and common-sounding, and discover nothing that really matches is, that is intended to address the topic?

Well, I sure as hell have, and I decided to do something about it.

Think of this page as a challenge to you content-mongers and HTML-hackers out there. These are pages I think should exist, but for some reason, they don't...

Chespirito -- my wife and I sat through an episode of La Mecho de Chespirito in a motel room in Newark, Delaware on our honeymoon several years ago, and I'm astonished this strange Spanish-language comedy/soap opera has no page whatever. It does get mentioned on several Simpsons'-related pages, since there's an oblique reference to Chesperito in an episode of The Simpsons, but...
~~The Captain Kangaroo Page~~ -- yep, amazing as it may seem, I could not find a page devoted to the old Cap'n, Mr. Moose, Mr. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, and that little train that used to come out with a bowl of cereal on the back to stop at the tank of milk. Update! Brett Bilbrey sent me a link to this one page that's part of the History of Television at a site called Saturday Matinee which I highly recommend. While it isn't much, it does picture the jolly fellow, as well as Dancing Bear, Mr Green Jeans, Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit. Until a more detailed site becomes available, this will have to do. Thanks, Brett!FOUND! Here's a link to a site with some interesting WAV files that may bring back some memories. No pictures, but he's soliciting h elp with that.
The Romper Room Page -- I cannot believe some former owner of a Posture Basket didn't put up a page to all those young women who served as "Miss Somethingorother" riding herd on a studio filled with little kids...
The Kukla, Fran & Ollie Page -- it may seem like I'm centered around children's television from the 1950s and 1960s, but hey, these were the first three to come to mind. There are several pages which mention Fran Allison or make a passing mention of the early days of the show, but all of those pages are focused on something else. FOUND!!! a guy named Mark maintains an absolutely astonishing site devoted to Kukla, Fran & Ollie with a ton of information on their entire career with Burr Tillstrom. Go check it out!
The Space Food Sticks Page -- ~~do you remember those sort weird Tootsie-Roll-like things that Pillsbury used to sell in the late 1960s and early 1970s, capitalizing on the Apollo program? I last saw them around 1973.~~ Update! FOUND! 4/21/98: I found several pages which deal with them, but the best of them is this one right here! Thanks for the inspiration, Rick!
A page dedicated to Bob Dorough -- sure, you know his voice because he did many of the songs on Schoolhouse Rock, but Bob did some amazing recordings back well into the 1950s, and influenced many other musicians. He also recorded one of the great cool-jazz Christmas songs of all time, "Blue Xmas," with Miles Davis in 1959.
Any pages about the 1936 Stout Scarab, a bizarre experimental car done by a genius engineer during the 1930s. There's a Stout family history page that mentions it and even includes a picture of it, but no real information.
~~Pages about Adam Osborne, a giant of the early microcomputer industry -- I have an Osborne 1 in my basement somewhere.~~FOUND 4/22/98! I found this link which deals both with Adam Osborne, has a bunch of interesting links to related information, but alas, no picture.
A page about, or dedicated to, Arthur Godfrey, a once-amazingly-popular radio and television star of the 1940s and 1950s who in recent years became obscure practically overnight and then died... I found only 17 hits on his name on WebCrawler and all of them were just minor references, not pages about him. Jeez, there are tons of pages about George Formby (go look it up) but none about AG...

Do you have a page that meets any of these needs? Mail it to me and I'll put up a link to it and give you a nod as the finder. Please do not mail me messages like "hey, I heard about a page somewhere that blablablablahh..." -- send me hard, working URLs. I can search the web as well as anyone, and vagueness doesn't help.

Would you like to add to this wish list? You can... just mail me a description of the amazingly-nonexistent page you've been seeking, and I'll post it here.

Hopefully, among all of us, we can use this list to fill in the blank spaces on the World Wide Web.

Some of you might ask, "well, if you want them so damned bad, why don't you put up a page yourself?"

Well, I am adamant about not putting up content-free pages, which is what these pages would unfortunately be if I put 'em up. And hey, if I already knew this stuff and had the information that would go into a web page about them, then I wouldn't be searching the web for the information, right?

There are enough enthusiastic-but-useless web pages out there. Let's light a fire under people who have the info to put it out there. Shake the bushes, scour the lockers, turn all the mildewed boards over, and let's find people with information that can be added to the Web!

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