Vintage shots from days gone by!

My late wife used to babysit his kids on occasion!

 

I was surprised to hear that Diana Dors "showed it all" but it appears she did. I just read the wikipedia account of her life and it is a sorry tale indeed. full of tragedy. Very interesting, though, but sad.
Mart.

 

The gal in the backseat holding the cards is a young Jane Fonda.

 

"The gal in the backseat holding the cards is a young Jane Fonda."
Smokin' body....Too bad about her convictions.....

 

Mart, you are SO right. I was going to get more involved in the conversation, but when I read the profile you mentioned, I was stymied by the frustrating sense of a life gone out of control. Yes, very sad, as you say. It does seem that success too early in life can muck up a person's whole life course. At my age, I thought nothing could raise my eyebrows any more. Makes Errol Flynn's shenanigans look like child's play. May she rest in peace, and may God bless and keep her family.

 

You have to love the over-the-top copy,
don't ya?

Image thanks to LandofCerptsandHoney.​

 

To be quite honest I am not sure where that first picture was taken. As for the Studebaker buildings in South Bend, most have been torn down. The Administration building and couple more are still standing, but most of those beautiful old buildings are now gone. I think the City of South Bend is responsible for t his. The National Studebaker Museum is now located at 201 Chapin Street check out their website here: http://studebakermuseum.org/

 

How many hosts of live kids' TV have their
faces immortalized on a Wheaties box?


Image thanks to FlickRiver!




In the greater Philadelphia TV market "Shock Theatre" debuted in September '57, starring "The Cool Ghoul," Roland Zacherley, the alter-ego of TV personality John Zacherle. Cutting a record that went to #6 on the pop chart, "Dinner With Drac," got "Roland" shots with Dick Clark (a personal friend, who also dubbed him "The Cool Ghoul"), and exposure in the original Famous Monsters magazine helped Zacherley to a measure of national popularity beyond the Philly and New York audiences.

Prior to his entertainment career, John served in WWII in the North Africa and European theaters. (See! He was meant to be in theater! Nyuk, nyuk! His motto could very well have been, "No horror pun is too contrived, too corny!") Notable career highlights included Zacherly's working with Elvira and Vampira, and he is a member of the Monster Kid Hall of Fame and holds a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award, recognizing his undying career of entertaining young people with imagination and good-humored shocks. Zach will be 94 years immortal this September! He lives back in his hometown, Philly.




Zacherley, "The Cool Ghoul"


A big THANKS to Wikipedia for the fair-use WABC-TV photo
of Zacherley and for the links below where you can read and
see more about him.

HorrorHosts.com
WPIX's Chiller Theatre homepage
Halloween Horror Hosts Rise Again




Roland/Zacherley, as rendered by artist Albert Nuetzell for the cover
of James Warren's Famous Monster of Filmland, Issue #7, June 1960.
Image thanks to MonsterMagazines.Blogspot!



Photo thanks to LandofCerptsandHoney.

 

Nice Zach promo pic from the vault of E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts!
More at: myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/tvhorrorhosts/hostsz.html.



Satirical album cover thanks to RetroKimmer. Dig
some of the cur-razy cut titles! "Hurry, Bury Baby"?
"Weird Watusi"? "Popeye the Gravedigger Man"?​

 

Garage band Age of Reason do a group-mug with Zacherley for the Disc-o-Teen
Show, April 1967. Snap thanks to GarageHangover!​

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It seems this was the look they were going for with "Special Agent Milton Dammers" in 1996's "The Frighteners".

 

Canyon Ferry 1947

 

It was on the Marlow stage that young Myrna Williams, who would later be known as screen star Myrna Loy, had her theatrical debut around 1918.

 

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Marlow Theatre Lobby, December 20, 1938[/FONT]





Demolished 1972

 

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Late 30s, the Kelsey-Hayes plant in Detroit:

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http://www.toontracker.com/milwaukee/dublon.htm
Jack Du Blon was a local puppeteer who manned the puppets on Cartoon Alley hosted by Barbara Becker. The main puppet was Albert The Alley Cat who went on to do the weather with various weathermen. When Channel 6 got a real meteorologist, Tom Skilling, he promptly lost his AMS accreditation because 6 refused to remove Albert from the air. Jack Du Blon was also Doctor Cadaverino, host of the weekly creature features.
http://www.toontracker.com/milwaukee/pops.htm
Pop's Theatre was another local cartoon show. Ah Memories.

 

MOHS Auto Museum was part of the Mohs Seaplane firm. Mohs was an odd duck that built a few cars based on the International Travelall.

 

1939 Oklahoma City. I think that's supposed to be a malted but. . .

Caption?
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1939 Abilene TX

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...and the bartender is still waiting for greatly feared "Buttermilk-Bob" speaking his verdict..