The Trendy Tire Tie

This is a blog written several years ago on another website by Jay Johnson

Editor for "The World is a Stage" 
 Walter Helmhurst

At a Lutheran Brotherhood Top Club Sales Meeting where I performed recently I was reminded that this was not the first time I have worked for LB. In 1973 I did a children's fire safety movie entitled "The Friendly Fire-Fly and his Fire Fighter Friend" sponsored by Lutheran Brotherhood. Friendly Firefly was a puppet I created for the movie. I wrote the script but I did not title the film. As a ventriloquist I would never have titled the project with so many F's. To the best of my ventriloquial ability it came out "The Trendly Tire tie and his Tire Tighter Trend."

This is a picture of the Friendly FireFly puppet and poster on display at VentHaven Museum, Ft. Mitchell, KY. They also have a copy of the 16mm print of which is to my knowledge the only one still around.