Swampy - I Dream of Jeannie!
Posted by Rob Smith, Jr.Feb 4
Swampy heads over to Lori Wilson Park on A1A in Cocoa Beach to visit a marker of Florida history. Here the entrance street is named ‘I Dream of Jeannie’. The NBC television series from 1965 to 1970 was based in Brevard County. Character Captain Tony Nelson, played by Larry Hagman, lived in Cocoa Beach and, though filmed in California, most of the series took place here. The series involved an astronaut whose wayward spacecraft delivers him to a desserted island. The astronaut, Captain Nelson, finds a bottle. Upon rubbing the bottle Captain Nelson finds himself with a genie for the next five years on television.
Connections Trivia: The series title, ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ is a swipe of the song ‘ I Dream of Jeannie (With the Light Brown Hair)’ by Stephen Foster, who wrote Florida’s state song, ‘Old Folks at Home’.
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GREAT website, Rob and Sandra, but may I make a suggestion?
The black print on the dark green is very hard to read. Maybe you could change the color?
How about Flamingo Pink? JUST KIDDING!!!
Consider it done! Thanks for the suggestion, Nancy!
I always “loved” the longshots of “Cocoa” on IDOG with the familiar mountain ranges in the distance! Of course, the air was so much clearer then!