Ed wrote --

> While reading this message, I thought about Amos and Andy.
> I'm old enough to remember hearing them on the Radio when I was a child.

  Being on old time radio buff I have many of their shows on CD's, along
with thousands of other old radio shows.
 
> Captain Video, Kukla Fran and Ollie, Howdy Doody, Milton Berle(sp?),
> and a Lady Singer who I can't recall her name.

  Don't recall Capt Video, since on DuMont and we didn't have that network
or who the singing lady was but did have the other shows.
  We didn't have Sid Ceasar's show but a local show instead.
  Our first station was WSAZ, NBC, ch 3, that went on the air in late 1949. 
Then came WCHS, ch 8 (Charleston), CBS, c. 1951.  WHTN (now WOWK) Ch 13 was
ABC and came along around 1956.
  (WCHS and WOWK switched networks a couple of times over the years, but
WSAZ was always NBC)

> I like trying to get Grins from salespeople while I'm shopping in a store.

  Often in a restaurant the server will say "My name is Mary/John, I'll be
your server".  I reply "My name is Joe, I'll be your customer".

> Because everyone has to wear masks in public the only way to tell if
> I made the person grin is to look at their eyes and eyebrows to see if
> I put a smile on their face.

  Ain't that the truth!
  I will sometimes wave my hand over my mask, point to mine then theirs and
give a thumbs up at times as sort of secret code.  People will be wearing a
"I hate this dumb mask", "I don't like being muzzled", etc printed on their
masks.
  Joe