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From: eli@uw-june.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: (New Topic) -> Cheesy Late Night Movie Hosts
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 18:28:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 18:28:40 1984
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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