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Cal Worthington Dead

Why do we care about a dead car salesman? Isn't that what we wish upon them when we leave a dealership?
 
RightCoastBias said:
Why do we care about a dead car salesman? Isn't that what we wish upon them when we leave a dealership?
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Goes back to two or three channel days, when everyone saw more or less the same thing. A lot easier to be an "icon" in those days. It's a Baby Boomer thing, because everything we saw or did was WAY more important than the rest of ya:laughing And anything that was big in LA in those days tends to be even bigger....

Guess ya had to be there. I have only read about Cal Worthington and seen a few clips because I'm from NorCal but he's pretty famous.

We had Ralph Williams (he also had dealerships on SoCal, I think), Chip Lambert, Ellis Brooks ( and Marie Brooks), I guess we STILL have Glenn Hartzheim, and so forth. Other geezers will pull a few names more out of the hat. Need more coffee to remember them all.
 
Pete Ellis Dodge
Long Beach Freeway
Firestone Exit
Southgate.
 
Yeh, I forgot about Pete Ellis, thanks!

sung: "Pete Ellis Dodge
1095 West El Camino Real
Sunnyvale."

Same tune and arrangement as the SoCal version (which I just now looked up on the Youtube). I swear, until I read the name Pete Ellis above, I had not thought about that damn commercial, but the address just popped into my head. It worked.

Probly had subliminal messages saying "buy a car, buy a car, buy a car."

EDITING IN: HERE'S CHICK LAMBERT, apparently after he got fired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IByDSLeM6Lk
 
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Bay Arean said:
Guess ya had to be there. I have only read about Cal Worthington and seen a few clips because I'm from NorCal but he's pretty famous.
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mean dad said:
Pete Ellis Dodge
Long Beach Freeway
Firestone Exit
Southgate.
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Those two were spamming the after-school cartoons on channel 11 every single day. :rolleyes
 
Moderators, can you please merge this with the other Cal Worthington thread? thanks.
 
mean dad said:
Pete Ellis Dodge
Long Beach Freeway
Firestone Exit
Southgate.
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:laughing

In threads like this I always think of the all night movie hosts "The Old Sourdough and Wachikenoka" (MMM Carpets?)
 

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eeeeek said:
Dude was a B-17 Pilot in WWII. 29 combat missions in Europe.

Silly commercials be damned, he has my respect.
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So was my grandfather, shot down twice and still served in korea
 
wobblebass said:
So was my grandfather, shot down twice and still served in korea
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my respect to your grandfather, too.

29 combat missions is significant. a tour was 25 missions. This means he volunteered for extra missions...
 
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