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Frank Mancuso

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Jan 4, 2003, 12:25:19 AM1/4/03
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I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
wherethese people are today?

Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)
Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!
Marijane(VanDeVere)'s Magic Castle-I was also here on a friend's
birthday.
Don Mahoney & Jeana Clare
Houston Wrestling with Paul Boesch (probably should be a whole 'nother
thread)
Mr.Caboose(may have been syndicated)
Doodad & Dudley
Kitty Borah
Sid Lasher
Art Grindle

Patrick L. Humphrey

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Jan 4, 2003, 3:44:31 AM1/4/03
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Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:

>I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
>usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
>who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
>wherethese people are today?

>Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)

Channel 13, mornings before school.

>Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!

Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitut
teacher when I was in high school.

>Marijane(VanDeVere)'s Magic Castle-I was also here on a friend's
>birthday.

She started out on Channel 2, IIRC, but when Channel 39 returned to the air,
she headed over to the Big Box of Bricks on Hillcroft.

>Don Mahoney & Jeana Clare

Never was into Westerns all that much, but they were around for a good while,
too.

>Houston Wrestling with Paul Boesch (probably should be a whole 'nother
>thread)

Channel 39 on Saturday nights, right after roller derby! (I was an easily
amusable kid in the late '60s, as you can tell. :-)

>Mr.Caboose(may have been syndicated)
>Doodad & Dudley

Missed them, somehow.

>Kitty Borah

Wasn't she the other Kitirik?

>Sid Lasher

He was the weatherman at KOTV in Tulsa, so I remember him from early in my
childhood, when we lived up there. He came to Houston not long after we did,
and I'll never forget watching Channel 11 at 10 the night he died just before
the 10:00 'cast was about to start.

>Art Grindle

...who was one of the reasons I watched Laurel & Hardy movies on Channel 13 on
Saturday mornings -- he bought large chunks of the commercial time. He did
his ads live, so it was always fun to see what he'd narrowly escape doing to
himself. (I never saw him get hit by one of his own cars, but he came within
a whisker more times than I can still count.) He made the southwest corner of
Chimney Rock and Westheimer special, back then...too bad he can't come back to
liven up the trendy yuppie wasteland the old Lamar Terrace neighborhood across
the street has become.

--PLH, those were the days, sort of

Mike Epperson

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Jan 4, 2003, 11:08:23 AM1/4/03
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In article <szk4r8p...@eris.io.com>, Patrick L. Humphrey
<pat...@eris.io.com> wrote:

> Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:
>
> >I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
> >usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
> >who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
> >wherethese people are today?
>
> >Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)
>
> Channel 13, mornings before school.

What was the cartoon with the rubber mouths and the rocketship?

And Semour (sp)... "There's a hole in my bucket..."


> >Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!
>
> Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitut
> teacher when I was in high school.


A lot of Dads watched Kitirik...


> >Art Grindle
>
> ...who was one of the reasons I watched Laurel & Hardy movies on Channel 13 on
> Saturday mornings -- he bought large chunks of the commercial time. He did
> his ads live, so it was always fun to see what he'd narrowly escape doing to
> himself. (I never saw him get hit by one of his own cars, but he came within
> a whisker more times than I can still count.) He made the southwest corner of
> Chimney Rock and Westheimer special, back then...too bad he can't come back to
> liven up the trendy yuppie wasteland the old Lamar Terrace neighborhood across
> the street has become.

I thought his place was on OST... with the B-I-G wagging finger sign...

"I WANT TO SELL *YOU* A *CAR*!!!"

Frank Mancuso

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Jan 4, 2003, 1:13:37 PM1/4/03
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Mike Epperson wrote:

> In article <szk4r8p...@eris.io.com>, Patrick L. Humphrey
> <pat...@eris.io.com> wrote:
>
> > Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:
> >
> > >I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
> > >usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
> > >who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
> > >wherethese people are today?
> >
> > >Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)
> >
> > Channel 13, mornings before school.
>
> What was the cartoon with the rubber mouths and the rocketship?

Space Angel & Cluth Cargo both had that high dollar animation!

>
>
> And Semour (sp)... "There's a hole in my bucket..."

I used to have that album(on Bellaire Records)

>
>
> > >Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!
> >
> > Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitut
> > teacher when I was in high school.
>
> A lot of Dads watched Kitirik...

Bunny Orsak was a hottie back then. She was the original.

>
>
> > >Art Grindle
> >
> > ...who was one of the reasons I watched Laurel & Hardy movies on Channel 13 on
> > Saturday mornings -- he bought large chunks of the commercial time. He did
> > his ads live, so it was always fun to see what he'd narrowly escape doing to
> > himself. (I never saw him get hit by one of his own cars, but he came within
> > a whisker more times than I can still count.) He made the southwest corner of
> > Chimney Rock and Westheimer special, back then...too bad he can't come back to
> > liven up the trendy yuppie wasteland the old Lamar Terrace neighborhood across
> > the street has become.
>
> I thought his place was on OST... with the B-I-G wagging finger sign...

He did have a place on OST.

>
>
> "I WANT TO SELL *YOU* A *CAR*!!!"

--
Frank Mancuso
Saint Arnold Brewing Company
Austin/San Antonio Office
512-916-4565 v/fx
mailto:fr...@saintarnold.com
http://www.saintarnold.com


Patrick L. Humphrey

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Jan 4, 2003, 1:52:41 PM1/4/03
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Mike Epperson <mike...@earthlink.net> writes:

>In article <szk4r8p...@eris.io.com>, Patrick L. Humphrey
><pat...@eris.io.com> wrote:

>> Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:

>> >I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
>> >usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
>> >who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
>> >wherethese people are today?

>> >Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)

>> Channel 13, mornings before school.

>What was the cartoon with the rubber mouths and the rocketship?

There were two of 'em that I can remember using that off-the-wall combination
of animation and the matted mouths -- the one you're thinking of was Space
Angel, while the other one I can remember was Clutch Cargo (and his pals
Spinner and Paddlefoot, of course).

>And Semour (sp)... "There's a hole in my bucket..."

Seymour was the '60s version of Al Capp's Joe Btsfptlk (or something like
that) -- the perpetual hard-luck character with the little black cloud
faithfully following him overhead.

>> >Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!

>> Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitute


>> teacher when I was in high school.

>A lot of Dads watched Kitirik...

I could figure out why that was even when I was in sixth grade. :-)

>> >Art Grindle

>> ...who was one of the reasons I watched Laurel & Hardy movies on Channel 13
>> on Saturday mornings -- he bought large chunks of the commercial time. He
>> did his ads live, so it was always fun to see what he'd narrowly escape
>> doing to himself. (I never saw him get hit by one of his own cars, but he
>> came within a whisker more times than I can still count.) He made the
>> southwest corner of Chimney Rock and Westheimer special, back then...too
>> bad he can't come back to liven up the trendy yuppie wasteland the old
>> Lamar Terrace neighborhood across the street has become.

>I thought his place was on OST... with the B-I-G wagging finger sign...

I vaguely remember him having a lot over on OST, but by the time I got here in
1965, his big lot was over there on Westheimer, and he did all the live
commercials from there on Saturday mornings. (I still have fond memories of
him getting so worked up one morning that he managed to collapse the roof of
the VW Bug he was jumping up and down on.)

>"I WANT TO SELL *YOU* A *CAR*!!!"

Yeah, the car dealers in those days were better than waiting for the circus to
come to town -- there was a used-car lot up the North Freeway not too far
north of where Gallery Furniture is now that was housed in a former old gas
station with a 14' white fence at the back of the lot...on which was painted
"Owner Has Brain Damage!". Wish I'd gotten a picture of that one...

--PLH, it definitely wasn't a time of anyone taking themselves -too- seriously

Robert M. Bratcher Jr

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Jan 4, 2003, 6:17:39 PM1/4/03
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On 04 Jan 2003 02:44:31 -0600, pat...@eris.io.com (Patrick L.
Humphrey) wrote:

>Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:
>
>>I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
>>usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
>>who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
>>wherethese people are today?
>
>>Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)
>
>Channel 13, mornings before school.
>
>>Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!
>
>Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitut
>teacher when I was in high school.
>

Yep. Watched them both every day. I wonder if anybody (or CH 13) has
videotapes of either or both shows? By the way I have B&W pictures of
both people in costume....


>>Don Mahoney & Jeana Clare
>
>Never was into Westerns all that much, but they were around for a good while,
>too.

That was a kiddie talent show as I remember.

>>Houston Wrestling with Paul Boesch (probably should be a whole 'nother
>>thread)
>
>Channel 39 on Saturday nights, right after roller derby! (I was an easily
>amusable kid in the late '60s, as you can tell. :-)

And I watched both every weekend!

WT Stull

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Jan 4, 2003, 10:03:55 PM1/4/03
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I was drinking, taking pills and smoking a lot back then and all I can
remember is:

The Beady-Eyed and Intense Harry Burkett from Burkett Dodge saying: "I paid
for these cars with my own money and I can sell them for anything I want.
Come on out."

And some guy from a carpet place (Harry from Harry's corner) saying the
following 2 things:
" I don't care about making money, I just love to sell carpet"
and
"I don't care if you never pay me, I just love to sell carpet."

He was on about the same time ol' Vic Vitaro from Vic Vitaro's Carpet world
was selling greenish-yellow shag carpet all over town.

and the lighted dance floor at some disco joint over on Buffalo Speedway and
the enormous hooters of the barmaid at the Chez Lounge on S Main near 610.
She hid a lighter in the cleavage out of sight but could get it out and
light your cigarette before you could get your own lighter out. Absolutely
phenomenal and the most amazing demonstration of ambidexterosity I have seen
before or since. Alas, she is gone now.

Regards,

WT Stull bst...@ev1.net

"She's so fine. There's no telling where the money went." - Robert Palmer
"Simply Irresistible"

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Marcus Taliaferro

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Jan 5, 2003, 2:32:11 AM1/5/03
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You have forgotten:
I Love Lucy (how do you forget Lucy?)
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
Sky King, and his niece Penny
The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show
Howdy Doody with Capt Bob Smith, Clarabelle, the Mayor, Princess
Winterspringsummerfall and the "peanut gallery" (my sis was on this one
once)
Mr. Wizard
I Married Joan, starred Jim Bacus of Gilligans fame
December Bride, starred Henry Morgan (Col Potter on MASH)
My Little Margie
The Hit Parade (a Saturday variety show)
Perry Como
Liberache
Red Skelton
Lawrence Welk
George Gobel
What's My Line
You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx
Queen for a day
Loretta Young Show (I hated this show, but it was my sis fav)
My Friend Flica (about a big black horse, starred the guy from Mission
Impossible, Jim something. Real life brother to the guy who played "Matt
Dillon"). There was another "cowboy type" show right after Flica. Not Raw
Hide though.
Gunsmoke
Wagon Train
Boston Blackie, this was one of my favs
Sgt Preston, of the Royal Mounted Police with his dog ?? name
Superman, starred George Reeves who shot himself because he could not get
other roles
Mickey Mouse Show which spun off "Spin and Marty"
Mighty Mouse cartoon
The Saturday Serial. Movies from the 40's that were shown in "serial"
format. You know, the hero or heroine always appears to die at the end of
each episode. One I remember was about a "blackwidow" crystal ball reader,
another was about a big robot. There was the another on KITIRIK about "Flash
Gordon". There was another serial about a guy (a super smart Doctor) who had
a super smart tank in the jungle. I can't remember what it was called.
Jungle Jim
Ramar of the Jungle
Tarzan

OK guys, there has to be some I missed, name a few more from the 50's. I'm
running on empty.
M


Marcus Taliaferro

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Jan 5, 2003, 2:51:29 AM1/5/03
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"WT Stull" <bst...@ev1.net> wrote in message
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>
> and the lighted dance floor at some disco joint over on Buffalo Speedway
and
> the enormous hooters of the barmaid at the Chez Lounge on S Main near 610.
> She hid a lighter in the cleavage out of sight but could get it out and
> light your cigarette before you could get your own lighter out.
Absolutely
> phenomenal and the most amazing demonstration of ambidexterosity I have
seen
> before or since. Alas, she is gone now.
>
> Regards,
>
> WT Stull bst...@ev1.net
>
The lighted dance floor club was "The Domed Shadows". Super place, live band
every night, tons of women, huge place. Do you remember "Vans Ballroom",
also a huge place? It was a membership only club (had to show your card with
dues paid up) on Shepard just north of Richmond, also killer women, live
band every night. I remember these from the late 60's. I hit 21 in 1967 so I
was sneaking in with a fake ID in 1965. There was another club of OST near
the VA hospital, a black club that brought in live groups like the Temps and
4 Tops. Remember the name? Back then in Texas you DL was paper and you could
use an exacto knife and cut the last number of your birth date out and
switch it with a number from your address. You didn't cut all the way
through the paper. They you use a piece of balsa wood and sand some dust
onto it. Rub it in some to cover the cut marks, blow it off gently and seal
it in a document protector. You could not tell it had been altered.
M

Kelly Younger

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Jan 5, 2003, 6:59:20 AM1/5/03
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Ummm...Frank's list was *locally* produced tv shows.

The Life of Reilly
I Led Two Lives
--
Kelly Younger

vonroach

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Jan 5, 2003, 8:15:22 AM1/5/03
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On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 16:08:23 GMT, Mike Epperson <mike...@earthlink.net> wrote:

>In article <szk4r8p...@eris.io.com>, Patrick L. Humphrey
><pat...@eris.io.com> wrote:
>
>> Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:
>>
>> >I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
>> >usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
>> >who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
>> >wherethese people are today?
>>
>> >Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)
>>
>> Channel 13, mornings before school.
>
>What was the cartoon with the rubber mouths and the rocketship?
>
>And Semour (sp)... "There's a hole in my bucket..."

`Cadet Don' was working towards a career in showbiz. If I recall correctly, he
also had a role in `The Fantastics' when it was playing out on South Main before
going on to the Seattle World's Fair, followed by a successful run on Broadway.



>> >Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!
>>
>> Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitut
>> teacher when I was in high school.
>A lot of Dads watched Kitirik...

One of the high moments was the appearance of a little girl and her tiny brother
Luther. The little girl was giggling so hard she could hardly talk, and after
much coaxing by Kitrick finally admitted her giggling was due to the fact that
Luther had `pood it in his pants' (good it was black and white TV or I suspect
Kittricks face would have been quite red.)

>
>> >Art Grindle
>>
>> ...who was one of the reasons I watched Laurel & Hardy movies on Channel 13 on
>> Saturday mornings -- he bought large chunks of the commercial time. He did
>> his ads live, so it was always fun to see what he'd narrowly escape doing to
>> himself. (I never saw him get hit by one of his own cars, but he came within
>> a whisker more times than I can still count.) He made the southwest corner of
>> Chimney Rock and Westheimer special, back then...too bad he can't come back to
>> liven up the trendy yuppie wasteland the old Lamar Terrace neighborhood across
>> the street has become.
>
>I thought his place was on OST... with the B-I-G wagging finger sign...
>
>"I WANT TO SELL *YOU* A *CAR*!!!"

Knew his dealership accountant. Art once took a cage full of monkeys as a down
payment on a car, and the employees spent the rest of the day ducking and
rounding them up in the dealership. This was his place on Westheimer.

Saw him once years later out in Quail Valley just traveling through between
dealerships. Had been in some hot water and was running low on coin.

vonroach

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Jan 5, 2003, 8:27:02 AM1/5/03
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:03:55 -0800, "WT Stull" <bst...@ev1.net> wrote:

>The Beady-Eyed and Intense Harry Burkett from Burkett Dodge saying: "I paid
>for these cars with my own money and I can sell them for anything I want.
>Come on out."
>
>And some guy from a carpet place (Harry from Harry's corner) saying the
>following 2 things:
>" I don't care about making money, I just love to sell carpet"
>and
>"I don't care if you never pay me, I just love to sell carpet."

About the time a friend named Jim Knapp was chagrinned by an oft repeated
commercial - `Come on out and buy a Chevrolet, folks - Old Jim Knapp, he'll'
make you a deal. Old Jim Knapp don't care!

Frank Mancuso

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Jan 5, 2003, 8:33:24 AM1/5/03
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I *did* forget No no the Clown on Channel 16. (But I think that was done in Alvin)

I kinow it is not a show, but did anyone's mom got to Slenderbolic? That exercise
place that had a jail for the kids!

vonroach

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Jan 5, 2003, 8:37:25 AM1/5/03
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:51:29 -0600, "Marcus Taliaferro" <m...@ev1.net> wrote:

>The lighted dance floor club was "The Domed Shadows". Super place, live band
>every night, tons of women, huge place.

Neat line on bar. Your change went on one side and if you didn'y drag it to your
side, it went back the other way.

Chez - we used to kid them in there that there was so much dirt in the rug that
they were missing a bet not planting corn. It was still there last time I passed
that way;

>Do you remember "Vans Ballroom",
>also a huge place? It was a membership only club (had to show your card with
>dues paid up) on Shepard just north of Richmond, also killer women, live
>band every night. I remember these from the late 60's. I hit 21 in 1967 so I
>was sneaking in with a fake ID in 1965.

Hey kid - how come they never wanted to see my ID.

> There was another club of OST near
>the VA hospital, a black club that brought in live groups like the Temps and
>4 Tops. Remember the name?

Embers? on Dixie Drive near VA?

vonroach

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Jan 5, 2003, 8:43:16 AM1/5/03
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:32:11 -0600, "Marcus Taliaferro" <m...@ev1.net> wrote:

>
>"Frank Mancuso" <fr...@saintarnold.com> wrote in message
>news:3E165761...@saintarnold.com...
>> I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
>> usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
>> who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
>> wherethese people are today?
>>
>> Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)
>> Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!
>> Marijane(VanDeVere)'s Magic Castle-I was also here on a friend's
>> birthday.
>> Don Mahoney & Jeana Clare
>> Houston Wrestling with Paul Boesch (probably should be a whole 'nother
>> thread)
>> Mr.Caboose(may have been syndicated)
>> Doodad & Dudley
>> Kitty Borah
>> Sid Lasher
>> Art Grindle

You missed Crusader Rabbit?
>>
>
>You have forgotten:...

Mercifully, I've been spared remembering those evil hours in the wasteland until
you brought it up.

Steve Cutchen

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Jan 5, 2003, 11:29:58 AM1/5/03
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In article <3E183396...@saintarnold.com>, Frank Mancuso
<fr...@saintarnold.com> wrote:

> I *did* forget No no the Clown on Channel 16. (But I think that was done in
> Alvin)

My sister had her birthday party on No-No (yes it was in Alvin). Here
group were the only kids there, so it was like a private clown party,
televised for all to see!

Didn't 16 become one of the first shopping channels?

Another local show that I used to get a bang out of was Dialing For
Dollars on 13.

My mom made me watch it during the summer if she left the house,
promised to split the winnings 50-50 :-)

---Steve

Frank Mancuso

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Jan 5, 2003, 12:18:53 PM1/5/03
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Dialing for Dollars with Howard Finch & Betty Rogers!

Steve Cutchen wrote:

--

Patrick Humphrey

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Jan 5, 2003, 2:37:05 PM1/5/03
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Steve Cutchen <scut...@airmail.net> writes:

>In article <3E183396...@saintarnold.com>, Frank Mancuso
><fr...@saintarnold.com> wrote:

>> I *did* forget No no the Clown on Channel 16. (But I think that was done in
>> Alvin)

>My sister had her birthday party on No-No (yes it was in Alvin). Here
>group were the only kids there, so it was like a private clown party,
>televised for all to see!

That was one of those oddities of the '60s -- a TV station licensed to
Galveston, but with studios in Alvin. (They were running "Fail Safe" the
evening the news broke about MLK's assassination.)

>Didn't 16 become one of the first shopping channels?

Not quite -- they managed to stay on the air for around 18 months in 1968 and
'69 (how, I don't know, considering the lack of commercial time they were able
to sell), and went dark just before Labor Day in '69. The first home-shopping
channel here didn't arrive until the late '80s, when Home Shopping Network
bought then-KTHT (Channel 67), which had only been on the air for a couple of
years.

>Another local show that I used to get a bang out of was Dialing For
>Dollars on 13.

>My mom made me watch it during the summer if she left the house,
>promised to split the winnings 50-50 :-)

"...and the count is 42 from the top!" ;-)

--PLH, who wasn't a very fast rotary dialer (who was?) back then

Marcus Taliaferro

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Jan 5, 2003, 3:20:19 PM1/5/03
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"vonroach" <vonr...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>
> > There was another club of OST near
> >the VA hospital, a black club that brought in live groups like the Temps
and
> >4 Tops. Remember the name?
>
> Embers? on Dixie Drive near VA?
>

Not Embers. It was past Dixie, cross the RR tracks, couple of blocks, turn
left, go about a mile, on the right. I want to say "Something Something
Room" but I'm not sure. I just can't remember this one.
M

Patrick Humphrey

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Jan 5, 2003, 5:52:50 PM1/5/03
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Robert M. Bratcher Jr <brat...@pdq.net> writes:

>On 04 Jan 2003 02:44:31 -0600, pat...@eris.io.com (Patrick L.
>Humphrey) wrote:

>>Frank Mancuso <fr...@saintarnold.com> writes:

>>>I hate to break up the usual informative and enlightening BS that
>>>usually takes place here, butI have not yet seen this one covered, so
>>>who remembers, or has been on any of these shows, eh? Anyone know
>>>wherethese people are today?

>>>Cadet Don (had my pic shown on my birfday)

>>Channel 13, mornings before school.

>>>Kitirik(I was also on 'the carousel)-ingenious-KTRK with 'i's!

>>Channel 13, afternoons -- and one of the two Kitiriks was an HISD substitute


>>teacher when I was in high school.

>Yep. Watched them both every day. I wonder if anybody (or CH 13) has
>videotapes of either or both shows? By the way I have B&W pictures of
>both people in costume....

I watched occasionally, but that was more my little sister's speed (she was
six when we moved here, I was ten).

>>>Don Mahoney & Jeana Clare

>>Never was into Westerns all that much, but they were around for a good while,
>>too.

>That was a kiddie talent show as I remember.

That was a good part of it, but as I remember, they managed to sneak a western
bit in there, as well. (Then again, this may be a senior moment for me. :-)

>>>Houston Wrestling with Paul Boesch (probably should be a whole 'nother
>>>thread)

>>Channel 39 on Saturday nights, right after roller derby! (I was an easily
>>amusable kid in the late '60s, as you can tell. :-)

>And I watched both every weekend!

How dod we avoid becoming menaces to society? ;-) (Of course, I was also a
regular watcher of the late Saturday-night movie on 13 -- remember "Weird"?)

--PLH, who got into the Saturday night habit at an early age

vonroach

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On 05 Jan 2003 13:37:05 -0600, Patrick Humphrey <pat...@io.com> wrote:

>That was one of those oddities of the '60s -- a TV station licensed to
>Galveston,

Channel 11 was theoretically a Galveston channel. Recall opening festivities
attended by a Hollywood backer - Jimmy Stewart.

Patrick Humphrey

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vonroach <vonr...@earthlink.net> writes:

Yeah, but Channel 11 was originally occupied by KGUL-TV, which *was* in
Galveston -- it moved to Houston right around the start of the '60s and
switched calls to the current KHOU-TV. Channel 16 (the old KVVV-TV), back in
the '60s, and two existing stations -- KTMD-TV (Channel 47) and KLTJ-TV
(Channel 22) -- are licensed to Galveston, but 22's "studios" are a block away
from the JSC and 47's are still just north of Westpark midway between Fondren
and Hillcroft, neither of which have ever been in Galveston that I know of.
(47's transmitter is part of the Missouri City antenna farm south of FM 2234,
and 22's stick is just northwest of Alvin...that's the closest they get to
actually being a Galveston entity.)

--PLH, who won't mention Channel 51 (a Katy station, theoretically) having its
stick in the MoCity antenna farm, either

ebec...@comcast.net

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> Larry Kane Show

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There was only one Kitirk and I know because she is my aunt, Bunny Orsak. Her oldest boy, Gary, did play Little Kit when he was young and was on the show sporadically.

Kitty Borah was never a Kitirik. She worked with Bunny at the station and did PR and many other jobs, some on the air.

I saw one mention Sid Lasher. He was a long time weatherman on Channel 11 back in the Dan Rather era and beyond. As a young man, I worked at Gulfgate Mall and Mr. Lasher often came in my employer, National Shirt Shop. Very nice man.

Marc Scheel

robertprophotographer

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On Friday, January 3, 2003 at 11:25:19 PM UTC-6, Frank Mancuso wrote:
I have been on some of those shows when I was a kid many years ago. And the studio was in another place. that was 13. I used to be a photographer for Don Mahoney and was also on his shown may he rest in piece. Yes I remember art grindle wow this brings back so many memories.
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