ATTACK OF THE KILLER STRIPED TOMATO
IT’S NO SECRET THAT MEDIA can have a significant influence on the young mind. Kids are just a perfect blank canvas to grab ahold of and impact, through the use of audio and visual stimulus. Today, we see that being done in continuum by way of the internet and all that it entails. The ’net is in our lives everywhere we may go — on our computers, our personal phones, and on our home entertainment systems.
However, if you were a child of the ’70s, there was nothing that got your attention and dazzled you like television. Showtimes were big events, and before the heyday of VCRs, Tivo, streaming services, and other means of watching whatever we want whenever we want, TV schedules were pinned to our brains like memos to a corkboard. Television had the power to entertain, inspire, and to make us dream. Heroes and icons were created and idolized, and many of us wanted to follow in their footsteps — to be just like them.
Steve Losacco of Chatham, New Jersey, was one of those kids who fell in love with the TV shows of was a big one for me. I loved that car the very first time I saw it. Yeah, ‘The Striped Tomato’ was one of my dream rides,” Steve says.
