Comments on: The home investigation.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:45:24 +0000

Does anyone remember “Spook Beckman’s Coffee Club” WLW-C TV 4? I have a set of coffee mugs and don’t remember the show.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:26:54 +0000

Detroit had local shows “Juvenile Court”, “Divorce Court”, and “Traffic Court” years before Wapner. One of my high school chums was on “Traffic Court”, ran a red light or something.

There is a book out called “Hi There Boys and Girls” that documents local children’s TV shows from the days of live television and from all over the US. As was Count Floyd on SCTV, most of the hosts were local news/weathermen and some of the local TV women. The book is highly recommended by me. When I was very, very young, Sonny Elliot came to my school for an assembly. Sonny was a long time Detroit weatherman.

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By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:07:36 +0000

Our students don’t come back to campus until the weekend, Jeff. Classes start on Monday. So everything is still a little laid back without the student population here to make the place hum!

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:44:34 +0000

Dorothy — I’m a little baffled, but mildly relieved: every school district in this county is closed, except Newark & Heath are 2 hr. delay, and ours is . . . no change.

Good for my morning productivity, though! Knox County looks shut down, school-wise, but i’m sure Kenyon is like Denison. If all the students live on campus, who cares? Staff, good luck!

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:03:39 +0000

Correction to my comments about Bill Cardille and the loud jackets – that was actually Bill Curry! I get my Bills mixed up all the time.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:40:08 +0000

Mark thanks for those links. Yes, Ricki was quite the looker – she filled out her sweaters just fine, didn’t she!? I am a little foggy on Hank Stohl. I recognize his name but I’m guessing I was too young when he was in his heyday. But my five older siblings would probably have stronger memories.

That picture of a little boy and Ricki made me think of my brother Jimmy. He’s three years younger than me. I’m positive his first grade picture had him in a white shirt and red bow tie, just like that kid! But Jim didn’t start wearing glasses until 3rd grade I think.

EDIT: Good morning Jeff!! I see we’re both checking the Nancy updates before heading to work today. Anything to avoid getting out there in the snow.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:32:18 +0000

Mark Bittman is doing a fascinating “body of work” across his columns and articles on food in the NYTimes: this is a great start o’ the year piece for cooks at home — http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07mini.html — but i hated disagreeing with him right at the start. Let me have my croutons in a bag, please, i just don’t get results that make the time worth spending. Plus dried basil isn’t worthless, just not as wonderful as fresh (dried parsley i finally gave myself permission to stop buying, but my mom always had a big jar of it in the pantry, so it took a while…it really is worthless, tho’).

By: joodyb

joodyb — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:38:52 +0000

I could have the distinction of being the only commenter here who grew up/came of age with both Chilly Billy and Jimmy Crum.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:52:53 +0000

Nice words about Jimmy, Jeff. But I’m not so sure Hayes would have gone before he did with or without Crum’s presence/ support. As Kirk said, too many gave him too many passes on his behavior until that Clemson incident put everything over the edge. But you’re absolutely right, Jimmy was the genuine article when it came to caring about his public.

Remember Woody’s WBNS TV show where he used poor Ted Mullins as a weekly punching bag during football season?

Speaking of TV people passing: Dorothy, did you remember this guy:

http://www.pbrtv.com/blog/entry_820.php

Right up there with Ricki & Copper and Paul Shannon. When I was a kid, I once wrote Hank and Knish a letter and was thrilled when they wrote back.

All schoolboys had a crush on Ricki Wertz back then; here’s a reminder:

http://www.geocities.com/pittlocalstars/wertzricki.html