Jo's Cafe

Seventy-two years.  Wow!  1937 to 2009 is a long time to be part of first radio and then television history. 

I grew up with Young & Restless, As the World Turns and Guiding Light.  Afternoons were grandma time and you either sat with her while she watched her “stories” or played somewhere else really quiet like.

I stopped watching many years ago.  Can’t really explain why, or remember exactly when, but I want to say it was around the time of the Reva Shane (my hero) clone story.  I love sci-fi, but soaps are suppose to be about love in the afternoon – not if someone flew to the moon.

Soaps audiences have declined over the years, with the advent of the VCR, DVR and Soap Net, and they claim women going to work instead of staying home. We who remained loyal found other ways to enjoy our stories.  I stopped taping General Hospital and watch it online now. Even Soap Net lost its sparkle a long time ago too.

I remember Reva Shane dancing in the town fountain in a red corset calling herself the town slut.  Josh sat in his wheel chair lost in his thoughts and his heart breaking.  That was what a soap opera should be. 

Television in the afternoon is changing fast and soaps will be around in some format, but I feel the cancelling of Guiding Light is just the start of the end of the genre on television.

Thanks for the memories.

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