Post #562050 by aquarj on Thu, Oct 28, 2010 11:15 AM

Ouch, that's sad. Seems like a lot of bummer news in 2010. James MacArthur always looks so vigorous in recent photos and appearances, and in every picture he still has that slight twinkle in his eye. It's the same twinkle you can just barely perceive when Danno dutifully carries out an order from McGarrett ("go stand in the open and draw their fire while we watch from behind this car"). Sad to see him go.

Here's a little seven degrees of TC thing. Reading from the link above, that his mother was actress Helen Hayes, reminded me that she used to be a regular at the Fairmont Hotel's pre-Tonga Room swimming pool. This fact is on the Tonga Room history webpage (which I recently read, stirred up by the discussion of its fate)...

The Fairmont created an indoor 75-foot swimming pool on its Terrace Level in 1929. Known as the Fairmont Terrace Plunge, the elaborate tile pool attracted local crowds as well as celebrities such as actress Helen Hayes

-Randy