This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you.
In light of the sad news of James Garner's recent death, I thought I would write a few words on The Rockford Files , and how this seventies show provided me one of my first tastes of California. I believe it was this show, and others like it from the same era that instilled the fascination with California which has remained with me for all these years. To begin with, the show was shot in such a way that it created a kind of sun drenched effect, everything was bathed in this orange glow, the sea shimmered with a gold sparkle, the beaches were pure white stretches of sand and palm trees grew everywhere. The whole show pretty much summed up the quintessential California experience. LA itself was depicted in a manner that really struck a chord with me. On the one hand it was a wash with criminals and low life hoods, but looking past these elements, as I did, I became enchanted with it from a very young age. But a large part of the fascina...