Mark... I'm impressed with your knowledge and recollection of the show, and I'm
sure I'm not alone. Thanks for all the detail. Long since gone from my mind.
Now if we can get Allen to start a SOD trivia quiz...
WFO Herb
Keep the sticky side down!
IfixMGs@aol.com wrote:
> 77 Sunset Strip
> 1958: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Stu Bailey (couldn't hack being a Hollywood
> PI, took an offer with the FBI) Roger Smith played Jeff , Louis Quinn was
> Roscoe (Quinn-Martin Productions....) Edd Byrnes as Gerald Lloyd "Kookie"
> Kookson III. Edd Byrnes was still combing his hair in the orig movie
> GREASE as the coach....Don Ho was a part timer, as was Deforest Kelley who
> eventually beamed aboard Enterprise, and Connie Stevens who twitched her butt
> and flipped her hair on Hawaiian Eye...
> E-ZimbJr drove a 58 T-Bird in the opening sequences, and sometimes in
> the show a nice black MKI Continental coupe; Kookie drove a T-Bucket that
> belonged to actor Norm Grawboski. It was featured in an old issue of Rod
> Builder Mag when I was a kid, and Kookie was kool..... black, flames, and 4
> two barrel carbs on a Potvin intake atop a 265 inch chevy, with a Lasalle
> gearbox, wide whites and a Hallibrand quick changer..
> How ironic that the subject came up as it did.... I was following a
> soft-top Caddy juke box looking beast with chrome chain license surround,
> gold trim, and fat whitewalls on fake wires just the other day before the
> thread arrived. Licence plate read 77-SS-STP, and the theme song popped
> into my head. I wanted to ask if the plate had some significance to the 25
> year old in the zoot suit, but the pounding bass no doubt rendered him brain
> dead..... Just had to get all that extraneous noise out of my head and share
> it with the world......
> Mark
> nobody wants to play Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit anymore....
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