In 1965, a local girl was Wednesday Addams in the Cherry Blossom Parade - The Washington Post

Comment on this story Lisa Loring, TV’s original Wednesday Addams, died last month at the age of 64.

But the child actors who played Wednesday and her brother, Pugsley ( Ken Weatherwax), were too young to fly out to D.C. from California.

Wrote Mike: “Some neighborhood moms took a bunch of us down to see the parade since we all loved ‘The Addams Family,’ and we scrutinized the impostors to see if they could pass.” (They did, he said.)

John Astin(Gomez), Jackie Coogan(Uncle Fester), Ted Cassidy(Lurch) and Blossom Rock(Granny) all came to Washington.

Apparently she was ill. A WMAL newsletter noted: “Because the makeup for the Charles Addams characters is so complicated, two specialists will be sent here from Hollywood to prepare the Addamses for their Festival appearances.”

His father, Allen V. Astin, was a physicist who worked at the National Bureau of Standards, eventually rising to head the agency.