Here’s a nice trip to the not-as-recent-as-you-might-think past. We’re in 1986 (back when we were young and happy) and it’s midnight in New York City. ‘The Honeymooners’ has just ended–it aired from 11:30-midnight, following the 11PM ‘Odd Couple’ rerun. I’m lying in bed, watching commercials and probably still reasonably high
Here’s a reel of alternately funny, scary, disgusting or disturbing TV ads from the golden 80s. Lots of Cocaine and AIDS nostalgia, of course, and Brenda Vaccaro shilling for Tampons while inhaling through an iron lung in between sentences is pretty messed up. Cosby makes an appearance, natch, and a
Do you remember in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” the looks on the faces of the audience members as they watched ‘Springtime For Hitler” unfold? That reaction is roughly the same as the one you’ll likely be having as you watch some of the most unbearably awful, insensitive and hilariously dated
Let’s close this week of 1970s Los Angeles heritage with this quite interesting news segment focusing on the then newly out gay community of West Hollywood. ‘Two on the Town,” was a local Los Angeles series broadcast by KCBS-TV hosted by Steve Edwards and Connie Chung. In this 1980 piece,