 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia The Street Don't tell me you've gone and given up architecture. Oh, no such thing architecture gone giving you David had to stay in Eastbrook this morning if he has a meeting on the schoolhouse plan Oh, it sure takes a lot of dickering to put up a building when I was a boy and a man wanted to put up a building It's bid on to his hands and said to now it seems there's more Palaverin than there is building going on. Don't think I don't agree with you either. Say, yeah How are you too fixed on time on what mr. Tucker? He ain't occupied these next few minutes. Hey, oh No, we're just going down the hardware store. David wanted to pick up a well if you ain't got nothing more important to do than that I sure could use some advice. Well, mr. Tucker You are the one person in the world whom I thought never needed advice Please don't shatter my last illusion. You're right, David. I guess I don't need advice. Yes, what I want is Yep, well to be honest with you guess what I want is an audience. Well, what are you up to mr. Well, my watch is gone puked out on me ain't running no more I brought it down to the watchmaker here a few weeks ago and yesterday he called me up in his highfalutin language He told me that watch of mine ain't fixable says it's plum war out. Well, how long have you had it? Well, ain't been so long my father got it from his papia. Guess he had it about 20 years before it passed on to me Oh, well, I'd say that watch is put in quite a lifetime Well, I sure never did expect for it to get tired and stop before I did Always kind of thought that Watson Jared Tucker would spend all their time together Like one of them stories when I closed my eyes in final rest the ticking of my watch would stop at ticking too But you see there ain't nothing you can depend on ma'am. Nothing whatsoever not even time Well, you can still depend on Jared Tucker. So you can now now Just about to go in here to the watchmakers and buy me a new watch I was wondering if you young ins could spare yourselves 10 minutes if you'd lend an eye. Sure. Come on. Let's go You have any any particular ideas on what kind of watch you want. Oh, I got an open mind There's very much that I like and I know just what I want, but I got an open mind So I see well here would be Doctor here Anybody at the home be right with you, mr. Tucker. It looks like a very nice little store Everything neat as a pin. Mr. Ames runs this here place. It's supposed to be the best watchmaker in this part of the country Oh, can't see it myself spending all day pouring over them little wheels, but takes all kinds to make a world I always say Well, if I ain't called game What's the trouble mr. Tucker? Did you ever see so many watches big one small one yellow one white one? standing laying down one Hope sure do have all the time in the world Still they don't know what to do with it Hey, listen that grandfather clock. I'd love to have one up at the farm Someday let's buy grandfather clock David. Yes, mr. Tucker here. I am all yours But if you're after me to repair that old watch of yours, I repeat it cannot be done And if I can't do it nobody else now show up there I ain't said a word about that old watch of mine. Well, I'm just anticipating matter of fact I come in to buy myself a new timepiece, and I've done with me my two neighbors mr. And mrs. Not Oh, you do. I mean I've been looking forward to meeting you you young folks having watched trouble No, not recently. Well, you don't have to have watched trouble to come in to say hello Now that we've met we'll come in again Yes, well enough this nonsense here now. Let's get down business. What kind of what you aim to sell me aims Well, what kind of a watch you're aiming to buy it seems like a more logical approach the best watch you got all my watches Are the best mr. Tucker. Well, there's always one that be the best of the best all my pigs is the best too But Ruby was the best Now here might be important watch I'm buying mr. Ames And I don't expect you realize just how important today mr. Tucker every watch I sell is the most important watch to the person who buys it But my watch is the only watch in Eastbrook mr. Ames now you can't say that about any other watches you sell can you now mr. Tucker, I know you consider yourself the only farmer in Eastbrook the only old man in Eastbrook and the only rightful citizen in Eastbrook, but yours will will not be the only watch in Eastbrook. I beg to differ with you It'll be the only watch in Eastbrook. I mean if you say so it must be but hall mr. Tucker Have you ever seen all the tax returns in a sear town and can't say that I have well I have while back I was a probate for this town One of my duties was to check the Connecticut State tax return Well, you know that line in your return says you got to declare all your personal possessions And there's a line for jewelry and watches. Yeah, I've seen that line. I always thought it was a very amusing I'm the only man in Eastbrook who was honest enough to declare he owned a watch Consequently, it seems I'm the only man in Eastbrook who legally rightfully and honestly owns a watch. Well, what do you know? Mr. Ames whether he knows it or not he's about to sell me the only watch in Eastbrook Better be a right fine watch my friend. You are going to choose it mr. Tucker So it's up to you sir. It's going to be funny to look at another watch in the face Strange watch. It don't say nothing more to me. But what ours is you'll make friends with it Yes, yes, man when he's made such bone and muscle that he lives longer than it father time himself Guess he's got to expect some strange faces even on his watch now Well, what do you got to show me now? Do you want a wrist watch or a pocket watch a wrist watch one of them there watches you wear around your wrist like a bracelet Yes, look mr. Ames you're talking to a man. I never went in for no jewelry or bracelets of any kind No, I never did well. I've always worn a wrist watch you son You you are a wrist watch look You admit it. Yes. Yes, I admit it. I've always worn a wrist watch I've had a pocket watch, but it wasn't as convenient. I've always worn a wrist watch I'll be a guest just shows you can ruminate on an idea for 70 years, but you mustn't come to a conclusion Maybe it ain't sophisticated to wear a wrist watch Maybe it ain't because I consider you something of a man son. Well, thank you, mr. Take nothing of it and mr. Tucker There are watches lying inside waiting for me to fix them. Do you or do you not want to buy a watch sure? I do that's what we come for. I just wanted to be reassured. You got anything with the 25-year guarantee You want to watch with the 25 year guarantee dog gone to do I ain't going to have any other watch poop out on me. I ain't take quite a lot of guts from an 86 years old I want a 25 year guarantee on a watch Claudia. Mr. Tucker. I'll tell you what I'll do I'll guarantee that any watch I sell you will last as long as you I ain't taking no guarantee of that nature It's too flexible 25 year guarantee or no guarantee at all. I'm well now Then let's choose the watch and then we'll see now now here is a very fine watch Swiss movement 17 jewels That's me. I don't see no jewels. They're inside mr. Tucker. You mean I'm paying my money for jewels It don't show a man like you mr. Tucker doesn't want jewels that show These jewels ensure the running of your watch so that it won't wear out any faster than you do They're inside guess I got jewels in my joints. I ain't wearing out nearly Well now there's a watch tells you what day of the week it is You're fooling right here. See it says Wednesday. I wouldn't buy such of a watch. It's an insult. It is probably witchery now This watch is waterproof What's the use of a watch being waterproof? Hey, you ever hear of anything like that mr. Norton? Yes. Yes, I have a foolishness to me if a man don't know better than to Plunge his wrist into water when he's got his watch on her jump into the tub with his watch in his vest Why he ain't fitting no one I'll save my money mr. Ames. I don't need no waterproof watches most of the watches today are waterproof Mr. Tucker, it's no extra cost. They are also shockproof Oh, they sure ain't making things as sturdy as they used to used to be your watch could stand some shocking now They got insurer what to get it same things happen to the human race used to be folks was built hard enough to stand shock now They're educated to be shockproof Well, guess that's where it is and here's a watch mr. Tucker that winds itself winds itself. Let me see Watched it do wine wine wines itself. The movement of your wrist is all the watch needs to be wound. They're fascinating, isn't it? Well, what do you know? Scott and show has it that the man can't even make his own time anymore. It's got to make itself That's sad thing Time's got to be shockproof waterproof foolproof and wine proof Sure is queer generation I'm starting to feel acutely uncomfortable that I wasn't born 80 years ago Well as mr. Tucker says darling, you can't do anything about time Mr. Tucker, I've got the finest line of watches you will find in the country and if they don't suit you I'm I'm sorry. Oh, mr. Ames. I think that mr. Tucker can find a watch here He's a little more discouraged with the time of the century that it is than the time pieces that you sell Haven't you got one of them nice watches with the cheerful round faces looks up at you as if to say I got time Jared plenty of time Watch man can put in his best pocket will feel set in there. What's it ain't an insult to carry Well, now I I do have one old watch in the shop. I've had it for Practically a century. Nobody before ever wanted to buy it, but uh, you might I'll sell it to you cheap cheap you say. Well now you're talking man. Now you're talking. Here it is If you don't want this you don't want anything Look at it. I never saw such a watch. Well, it's practically a clock and a hunter's case My father used to have a watch like that. Does it uh, does it ring the hours, mr. Ames? Oh, it does more than that. It rings the time for you now. Listen Listen to that Nine o'clock Lovely sound that watch and tell the time in the dark with this here watch transfer. We're almost telling a story Look at it spinny little hands like spiders clear lacy numbers It's such an open honest face Like the man in the moon. Now. I'll sell you this watch cheap Uh, $35 made a solid gold made of solid gold Well now here be a watch watch man can wind watch man can see watch man can hear a watch a man Is responsible for not vice versa with the watch like this one Man couldn't be ashamed to pass in the time Uh, mr. Ames you made yourself a sale Well, well, I must say I'm as surprised as you are Here now now you give me the watch before you change your mind I'll take it in the back room and check it for you Well, mr. Ames you've made yourself a sale And anytime anybody wants time of day, I'll be pleased to give it to them Just to prove they're shopping old jerry tucker don't mind giving away If there's a youth center in your neighborhood drop in some evening and watch the young people at play Their pleasures are wholesome pleasures music dancing talking and coke When there's ice cold coca-cola on hand teenagers have the making of good times at their social centers Or at home You might remember that when you're doing the family marketing. Well, son, how'd you like to look at me new watch? Hmm A handsome piece of watch mr. Tucker that kind of suits my personality wouldn't say I'd say exactly that but you didn't know I had such fine taste did you never doubted it for a moment Where you going now? Oh got to get home and show me watch the delilah. It'll make her eyes pop out like chestnuts It will funny about time isn't it mr. Tucker how one evening can be long the next one's short All with the same clock ticking away the minutes son while you're near talking philosophy Give me a for instance a for instance tomorrow evening Endless because claudia has to spend it with a book Minutes take hours to tick by till she finds the right book. I know what to mean never could stand reading trash Well got to be on my way. See you son. Goodbye mr. Tucker Every day monday through friday claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who battles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying au revoir And remember whoever you are whatever you do Wherever you may be When you think of refreshment Think of coca-cola For coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola