Tommy Rettig...(click this link for blog #1)

Actor Tommy Rettig of the old TV "Lassie series" in the 1950`s which I used to watch all the time...When Tommy got too old for the part, they just sort of brushed him aside and got another younger kid, Jon Provost, who also lived on East Lincoln Avenue in Pomona, at the time...and at a time when it was fit for actors to live in Pomona, I might add...However, when Tommy Rettig was in his 20`s he often considered suicide...Then finally he found work as a software developer, but he liked to eat junk food too much and is the reason for his untimely death in 1996...Tommy was just a year older than myself...I began watching the "Lassie TV Show" in 1954 and until 1957 when Rettig was replaced by Jon Provost...

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