Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:45:39 -0800
To: WORLDVENTS-AT-yahoogroups.com, christpup-AT-yahoogroups.com,
Subject: [Puptcrit] Steve Petruzzella - Story


We just sent this story out on Steve 
Petruzzella,  in our last newsletter.   It's a 
great read.   http://www.axtell.com/axnews/petra.html

Steve was born in Astoria Queens. A sickly child, 
his friends were stacks of 78 RPM records, a heap 
of drawing pads, colored pencils and his 
imagination. But his favorite diversion was TV. 
Television in the 1950s and particularly local 
New York broadcasts was full of puppet 
characters. Paul Winchell, Bill Baird, Chuck 
McCann, Sandy Becker and Shari Lewis were 
favorites. He was always doing voices and making 
things 'talk'. His parents bought him his first 
puppet: a Howdy Doody marionette. .....

http://www.axtell.com/axnews/petra.html




Steve Axtell
Axtell Expressions, Inc.
  http://www.axtell.com
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