![]() It is guaranteed to bring a smile to every face and last forever. We are very excited to be able to offer this Great sign to Amos n Andy fans everywhere :) It is a super high quality that you can be proud to display in your home or office. We make these signs "in-house" because we couldn't find a sign maker to produce the quality we require nor a price we could sell them for. It is ready to hang with two options, pre-installed on the back. The wood 100% sealed and suitable for indoors or outdoors. This is not a mass produced product but hand made all the way down to the box it comes in! The "Kingfish" logo is hand painted gold leaf. Many hours of hand work and multiple layers of primers, paints, and sealers. This is not a cheap novelty sign like you may expect but is a very high quality, hand painted, wooden sign. No one could agree on the colors so we made our best guess based on the information we had. ![]() We actually talked with several people associated with the "Amos 'n Andy" TV show in order to get the colors right. The 'Kingfish,' head of the Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge, was a lovable scoundrel at his most lovable, a role tailor made for Moore. The "Kingfish" was the elected leader of the "Mystic Knights of the Sea". Tim Moore had already been in show business for something like 50 years when he was chosen to play the role of George 'Kingfish' Stevens in the television version of the wildly popular 'Amos 'n' Andy' radio show. There was also a larger sign that hung outside the main door to the building. This is the sign that hung in the Kingfish's office at the lodge hall. This is something I have always wanted but could not find. Of a portion of it is so poorly reproduced.Īll rights to the content of this page not successfully claimedīy others.This is as near an exact reproduction of the "Mystic Knights of the Sea" sign that we could make. Terrific framed collection of inscribed photos from several of In the stairwell entrance to Miss Wade's residence there was a Lowe: Well, he was certainly perfect for the Miss Wade: And a jockey, and an actor, and I Youth, and other periods in his life, because he had a very Played pinochle much of the time and he didn't play, so he wasĪround regaling whoever would listen with the experiences of his He kept everybody in stitches when they weren't working and Tim and SpencerĮverybody on the show was very agreeable. How did you feel about him? Was he easy to Were every bit as effective as the Bunkers or the Honeymooners. Lowe: You said that the show was well acted. On me said "That's what I want to know." We had a lot of "How could you ask me that?" And this woman who was waiting She didn't want to be rude and talk over our conversation,īut finally she came out: "You know I want to ask you something." I said "What is it?" And she said "I know who you are and I want to ask you, is that your real husband?" I said ![]() Talking to me and another woman a few feet away had her patron. I got an uncle just like your husband."Īnother time I was making a purchase and my saleswoman was I haveīeen on escalators going up or coming down and people - "Oh, I know who you are. Somebody on the show or knew someone in the family. Show, regardless of race, creed or color, identified with That there was any intention or projection of racial Miss Wade: Actually, I never was of the opinion People, big shot people, they wanted the part. Childress: Well, there was Lucky Millinder. Miss Wade: Who else did you see besides Cab? I know he's got experience." He said, "Would you tell him to kink his hair?" I said, "No, sir, Mr. Was then assigned the task of finding suitable candidates to be Alvin Childress told me that he was chosen to play Amos a Right actors to portray all the characters on television. "Amos" These brief excerpts are from a lengthy interview,Ĭonducted in the Fall of 1979, with Ernestine Wade and Alvinįreeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the voices of Amos andĪndy on radio, conducted a long and careful search for just the Amos 'n' Andy Interview - Re: Tim Moore A Conversation With
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