# 77 Sunset Strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961 "2017-04-22T01:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/1 "2017-04-22T01:41:50Z")
I’ve been watching it on cable. What are Kookie and his kind? Not hippies, Goths, or hipsters. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/2 "2017-04-22T01:47:17Z")
[Beatnik.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/3 "2017-04-22T01:49:51Z")
Beatniks? _eta: rats! ninja’d!_ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/4 "2017-04-22T01:51:19Z")
Yeah, beatniks. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/5 "2017-04-22T02:00:30Z")
I thought beatniks were like unto [Maynard G. Krebs](http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/maynard.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/6 "2017-04-22T02:01:57Z")
I don’t recall Maynard ever calling Dobie Gillis “Dad”. Or tackling a Bad Guy. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/7 "2017-04-22T02:07:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I don’t recall Maynard ever calling Dobie Gillis “Dad”. > Or tackling a Bad Guy. … Or working. **WORK!!!** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/8 "2017-04-22T02:09:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > … Or working. > > **WORK!!!** :eek: Exactly. Zelda. I was in love with Zelda. I think I was eight or nine. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/9 "2017-04-22T02:12:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Exactly. > > Zelda. > I was in love with Zelda. > I think I was eight or nine. … And you were devastated to learn Sheila James plays for the other team? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/10 "2017-04-22T02:12:28Z")
No, I was seven at the oldest. Early love. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/11 "2017-04-22T02:13:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > … And you were devastated to learn Sheila James plays for the other team? ☹ I was more devastated to learn that she was a lawyer. One can reform from playing for the other team. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/12 "2017-04-22T02:15:05Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I was more devastated to learn that she was a lawyer. > One can reform from playing for the other team. In other words, it might not take? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/13 "2017-04-22T02:18:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I don’t recall Maynard ever calling Dobie Gillis “Dad”. [Dobie: “Hi, Maynard” – Krebs: “Hey, Big Daddy”](https://youtu.be/M8fC4dvAmf8) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/14 "2017-04-22T02:20:21Z")
Kookie was kind of a melange of beatnik philosophy and hood aesthetic. My young boy crush was Marta Kristin of Lost in Space, as long as we’re putting it out there. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/15 "2017-04-22T02:21:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Exactly. > > Zelda. > I was in love with Zelda. > I think I was eight or nine. Thalia was my crush. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/16 "2017-04-22T02:22:25Z")
[Kookie](https://www.google.com/search?q=kookie+77+sunset+strip+images&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlxdHV_bbTAhVE-mMKHdzeACcQ_AUICCgB&biw=1391&bih=872) [Beatniks](https://www.google.com/search?q=kookie+77+sunset+strip+images&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlxdHV_bbTAhVE-mMKHdzeACcQ_AUICCgB&biw=1391&bih=872#tbm=isch&q=beatniks) I don’t think there was a specific category for guys like Kookie. Sort of a cross between smooth ladies’ man/street tough/hep cat. There weren’t very many of 'em around, mainly because the combination of qualities that comprise a guy like that are hard to pull off in real life. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/17 "2017-04-22T02:32:06Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Thalia was my crush. The blonde? “Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis”? Hep cat! Thanks, Starving Artist! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/18 "2017-04-22T02:32:44Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > My young boy crush was Marta Kristin of Lost in Space, as long as we’re putting it out there. I always preferred Angela Cartwright, aka Penny Robinson. :o Hep cat, that’s it! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/19 "2017-04-22T02:33:37Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [Dobie: “Hi, Maynard” – Krebs: “Hey, Big Daddy”](https://youtu.be/M8fC4dvAmf8) > > 🆒 Mea Culpa. Thanks for fighting ignorance! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961/20 "2017-04-22T02:36:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I always preferred Angela Cartwright, aka Penny Robinson. :o Not embarrassed to say it. She’s my age and I fell in love with her on Danny Thomas. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/77-sunset-strip/784961.md?page=2)