Heads Up, Hackneyed,
My latest list is of people, and things of all sorts that we didn't get enough of. They all stopped much too early. Maybe they fall into the category of All Good Things Must Come To An End. Dammit. I'm sure it will be incomplete, I always think of something I want to say later on, but here goes, anyway:
The Beatles.....John F. Kennedy.....Rod Serling.....Mark "The Bird" Fydrich.....Karen Carpenter.....Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).....The WWE's Christopher Nowitzki, The Harvard Guy (He was hilarious!).....The American Football League.....Hank Williams, Sr......Studebakers.....Dorothy Dandridge.....The World Trade Center.....Sandy Koufax.....George Orwell.....The Philharmonic Auditorium in Downtown Los Angeles.....Tyrone Power.....Orange Julius.....Woolworth's.....Robert F. Kennedy.....Buddy Holly.....The National Lampoon.....Joe Namath.....W.C. Fields.....Tony Conigliero.....Abraham Lincoln.....Patsy Cline.....Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (Yes, we had one! Look it up!).....Western Auto.....The Ford EXP.....The Three Stooges.....Pogo.....Concentration, the game show.....Heckle and Jeckle.....Jimi Hendrix.....The original Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.....Martin Luther King, Jr......Jack Paar.....Lenny Bruce.....Richie Valens.....Jean Harlow.....Lou Gehrig.....Orange Crush (I can't find it anywhere!).....The Triumph TR3.....Colorful and friendly gas stations.....The Doors.....Coast FM & Fine Arts Magazine.....Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.....Humphrey Bogart.....John F. Kennedy, Jr......Dinah Washington.....Rebecca Schaeffer.....Sid Gillman.....American International Pictures.....Princess Diana.....Seals Stadium, San Francisco.....Malcolm X.....The original MGM Studios in Culver City.....The Hal Roach Studios, also in Culver City (The Lot O' Fun, as they called it).....Jackie Robinson.....The Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland.....Drive-in Theatres.....Laurel & Hardy.....NET, the forerunner of PBS.....First Interstate Bank (Thanks an F'n lot, Warren Buffett!).....The OSS, forerunner of the CIA.....James Dean.....Anwar Sadat.....Vault Disney on the Disney Channel.....Elvis Presley.....Ernie Kovacs.....Riverside International Raceway.....Irving Thalberg (The man who made MGM the great studio it once was, died at 36 in '37).....Eddie Cochran.....Bill Graham, greatest concert promoter, ever.....Ontario Motor Speedway.....Thrifty Drug Stores.....The Polo Grounds in NYC.....Bobby Darin.....The Challenger & Columbia crews.....PickFair, the estate of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (Thanks an F'n lot, Pia Zadora! You're really a great star in your own right, aren't you?).....The Houston Astros "Rainbow" uniforms.....George Allen.....And this blog!
That's all you get. Til next blog, Byeee! As Always, Anne Alogy