Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!eli From: eli@uw-june.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: (New Topic) -> Cheesy Late Night Movie Hosts Message-ID: <931@uw-june> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 18:28:40 EST Article-I.D.: uw-june.931 Posted: Mon Jan 30 18:28:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:26:51 EST Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci Lines: 48 Those in the San Francisco Bay Area will of course remember the virtual festival of late-night movie hosts of the early to mid-70's... The King had to be Jay Brown of Spartan Dodge in San Jose... "4590 Stevens Creek Blvd. where we're right on the corner and right on the price. Home of the Price Slasher -- just a'hackin' an' a'hewin' at that dollar sign." Brown was on five or six nights a week with the All-Nite Movie Go-Round on Channel 11. His set featured a Nite-Owl theme, his theme song was 'Classical Gas.' Probably the two funniest things I ever saw him do were to (1) Try to sell his house by showing a small snapshot, and (2) Try to reconcile with his estranged wife. Occasionally he would have on guests, like some awful band that practiced in his next-door-neighbors garage. Last I heard he was no longer with Spartan Dodge. Channel 36 had MMM Carpet Moview Till Dawn with either Bascom Avenue and Ray Street (two streets in San Jose) or The Old Sourdough and Watchikinoka (the characters being a crusty old miner and his Indian pal). Both pairs were actually the same two guys... the latter pair having begun on a Saturday evening half-hour show -- where they would sit around a set that looked vaguely like an old mining shed, telling horrible jokes. Eventually The Old Sourdough and Watchikinoka took over the late night movie chores from Bascom Avenue (who sat in a wheelchair as I remember) and Ray Street. Both pairs were very dry, humor wise, when hosting the movies. Channel 40 had Tom LaBrie's waterbed wherehouse, with (I assume) Tom him- self perched on a waterbed, talking very quietly and slowly, telling you how much more comfortable you'd be RIGHT NOW on a brand new waterbed. It didn't really matter what movies they were showing -- it was too hard to take the commercial breaks. And last but not least, Tom Campbell, ex top-40 DJ (KYA-AM), and now hawking everything he can, used to do Both of the two major accounts for the Channel 7 all night movies. One was Grand Auto, and the other...? He didn't actually host the show, but he was usually the only voice you heard at the commercial breaks... and what a voice! For those of you who've never experienced Mr. Campbell, the best description I can give is to note that there is a catagory in the San Francisco yellow pages titled "Radio Personalities" under which he is the sole entry--and it has his mobile phone number to boot! With Red Eyes... ... uw-june!eli