If you are one of the really lucky ones, you remember coming home from school when you were in your teens and tuning in “Bandstand.” Maybe you had to turn the antenna by hand to catch the signal or maybe your family had one of the Alliance tenna rotors?

Early 1950’s (5-52) RETRO brown Bakelite electronic TV antenna tuner.

Or maybe you just endured the snowy black and white images and listened as Dick Clark brought rock and roll music; classic performers; the regulars (Bunny Gibson, Eddie Kelly, Justine Carelli and Carmen Jimenez) and the other “big city” dance, dress, hairstyles and speech into our Lancaster County homes each school day. Lucky us.

American Bandstand regulars, Kenny Rossi dancing with Justine Carelli on the TV show – by Paul Schutzer

And now, it’s 5:00 and Bandstand is over … Dick Clark died yesterday. Another generational icon is gone and each of us grieves for Dick Clark and another era.

Read articles about Dick Clark at Philly.com here.