# In the dustbin of our cultural history **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703 "2020-12-10T00:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 47
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/925 "2021-04-28T19:34:14Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Are there Liberal talk radio shows? I mean, there is NPR but that is not similar. The situation I was speaking about was in the 1970s. At which time liberal / leftist talk shows could and did exist. Today? Not a chance. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/926 "2021-04-28T20:04:05Z")
There used to be a liberal station in Sacramento, anchored by Christine Craft, whom I love, but it didn’t have the numbers of right wing radio and it folded. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/927 "2021-04-28T20:04:56Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yes! but in the LA area that was often themed, like we had a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes-athon for some time. Tarzan also, iirc? I enjoyed those, although now I know those were not very good Holmes films. We used to get Tarzan marathons with Johnny Weismuller. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/928 "2021-04-28T20:44:59Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Are there Liberal talk radio shows? I mean, there is NPR but that is not similar. My family’s very right-wing, so I thought I’d see what they were listening to. I’m not sure I’d ever used the AM band on my car radio before, but I turned on our local “talk radio” station. I almost immediately yelled (to no one except some random pedestrians): “Ahhhh! I can feel my IQ level slipping! I can’t keep it up!” I had to switch back after less than two minutes. I swear I’m still a bit shell-shocked from that… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/929 "2021-04-28T21:26:52Z")
Maybe that is what I was poorly remembering. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/930 "2021-04-28T21:34:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > … > Around the corner was Recycle Books a 'clean well lighted place for books" which would give honest prices. They still exist but not at that location. > … Were they related to the book store literally named A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books? They had a few locations, Cupertino, San Francisco. Gone now, of course. So many bookstores, especially around Palo Alto where I worked in the late 90s. It looks like only Kepler’s has figured out a way to make it work today, and they had to turn themselves half into a non-profit. ---
**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 28, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/931 "2021-04-28T22:31:00Z")
I could get the NYC kid shows: Wonderama, Sandy Becker, and Chuck McAnn on weekends and Officer Joe Bolton (and the Three Stooges) after school. There also were the Connecticut hosts. Pinky Lee was there for awhile, but I remember Colonel Clown (promoted from Captain due to trademark issues) out of New Britain. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/932 "2021-04-28T22:55:00Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Pinky Lee… … and his _houndsthtoofth cap!_ A friend and I always did his voice at work to drive others crazy. And we always triggered our inanity by one of us mentioning a houndstooth cap with Pinky’s odd “spittle lisp”. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/933 "2021-04-28T23:28:33Z")
No, but they both liked the name. Recycle was 90% used books. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/934 "2021-04-29T01:24:14Z")
When I visited relatives in Connecticut around 1973, there was a show where helpful kids could be named “Citizens of Happytown” (complete with a certificate that I still have, thank you very much). Ring a bell? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/935 "2021-04-29T01:44:14Z")
I finished sixth grade in 1978 (to give you an idea of when I was a child) and we used to see international movies on a Saturday morning show hosted by [Kukla, Fran and Ollie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie). Apparently, this was the [CBS Children’s Film Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Children%27s_Film_Festival). Of course there were also the Schoolhouse Rock! shorts and cheesy animated shows. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/936 "2021-04-29T03:18:20Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I finished sixth grade in 1978 (to give you an idea of when I was a child) and we used to see international movies on a Saturday morning show hosted by [Kukla, Fran and Ollie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie). That’s one hell of a rerun! I remember K,F’n’O back in the mid-50s, and that was at the end of their ten year run! … Yep, your link says '47-'57. Oh, and they were indeed back to host those movies in the late 60s. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/937 "2021-05-04T23:25:05Z")
KTVT, no doubt. I am a big Icky Twerp fan. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/938 "2021-05-04T23:38:49Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fw1IL_UYSSc/hqdefault.jpg "A Tribute to Icky Twerp and Slam Bang Theater") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw1IL_UYSSc) Slam Bang Theater, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/939 "2021-05-05T00:59:43Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Milk chutes: A little cubical box about 15 inches on a side - built into the side of the house with a door leading to the outside and another leading to the inside. We had one of those in our house until the kitchen was remodeled. I used to slip through it to get in if the door was locked (which wasn’t often). I also used them to get into my friends’ houses. ---
**Author:** ![Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Levolor_the_Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/940 "2021-05-24T17:33:28Z")
My parents, now in their 90s, had their saturday bridge group which I loved as a kid when they hosted because I’d be banished to the basement tv room with a plate of whatever snacks mom made. When my mom was lamenting that I had no such social group, I pointed out that I have weekly Dungeons & Dragons games with my friends (and their kids). ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/941 "2021-05-24T18:43:18Z")
Interesting observation and brings up the question of why national bridge membership is declining and having trouble attracting the younger cohorts. Maybe grist for another thread, however. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/942 "2021-05-24T19:18:24Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Kinda sorta TV clown show: In the early 80s local Orange County independent station KDOC-56 had “Hot Seat with Wally George” And his daughter was the actress Rebecca de Mornay. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/943 "2021-05-24T19:19:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fun fact: Wally George was the father of actress Rebecca DeMornay. Argh. Knew I shoulda read the rest of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/944 "2021-05-24T19:48:19Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Interesting observation and brings up the question of why national bridge membership is declining and having trouble attracting the younger cohorts. Maybe grist for another thread, however. I never learned to play bridge because I saw no utility in a card game that leads to sudden violence. “He bid seven, no trump and that’s when I shot him, your honor.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703.md?page=48)