since when did Bob Dole start lip syncing Roy Orbison...

Wow - memories. I crossed paths with a few of these.

Fred Broski owned or at least frequented a bar at 39th and main in the 70's where I sold some supplies. (Wholesale booze)

John Bilyeu also owned a liquor store over on 39th close to State Line and lived directly above me when I lived in an apartment in the mid 70s.

Dick Hoctor also sold appliances and sold us a refrigerator.

I was on Torrey Southwicks show many, many years ago.

Ed Mascari dated a friend of mine - and she was a woman - not a young boy. (Which was what he was really interested in)

Had a weatherman here in the 50's or 60's - last name of "Yearout" that was my cousin's brother-in-law.

Oh boy, here I go feeling kinda old again.

Those are kind of sketchy parts to be in nowadays, aren't they?

Usually there's not a lot of new car dealerships in bad neighborhoods.

I was at one of my girlfriend apartments years ago that was in the same complex as another friend of mine who was dating him at the time. I remember one night looking out the balcony on the 2nd floor - late at night - and seeing Ed leave. As he walked through the courtyard he held up the back of his hand like he used to do on TV - like a backwards wave or something - and was doing that at the aprtments with nobody watching him. It was sort of weird, but he was weird too.

Another time I was singing with a group of people providing the "entertainment" at an art show when Ed showed up (my friend he was dating had some art on display at this show). Ed came up on stage where we were singing, sat down at the piano and just started playing whatever. Totally upstaging us and wasn't even invited to be part of the show. He was definetely a weirdo.

BTW: I don't think Walt Bodine is dead, he's just really old:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Bodine

Now that you mention it....Didnt Ray Adams take over the Friday Fright night thing with a show of his own later on???

About the same time as Elvira??

dude...I forgot about Boots Williams.

JFC>..I forgot about that!

"Push it in, pull it in....just get it here"..

ROFL

...you guys are jogging some memories here. I forgot about that one too.

Since the thread has evolved to car commercials, remember these:

Sonny Hill

Olathe Ford commercials with Hap Hazard and his wife "Mishap".

Well, since my sister lives very near there, I probably shouldn't characterize it as that.

Seriously, I wouldn't characterize it as sketchy. The corridor right next to 71 is a little run down, but that's a consequence of the GV triangle makeover and I anticipate it'll rebound in the next decade as Lee's Summit [East] and Metcalf [West] is still a little too far to travel for a shopping mecca.
The west side where Boots used to be is pretty much unchanged, the medical park and a decent, if blue collar, apartment complex. Never heard any complaints about the crime or makeup of that complex.
Doesn't really get 'sketchy' until you make it over to Ruskin area well east of 71, but that's been that way forever.

My parents live in that area as well. Its not too bad except for all of the IHOP stuff popping up around there everywhere.

Hap Hazard was Sunflower Dodge

I think so.

Belton and Raymore are two areas that seem to be growing...