M-I-C-K-E-Y vs. O-J:The original Mouseketeers from the...
M-I-C-K-E-Y vs. O-J:
The original Mouseketeers from the Disney TV show met for a 40th reunion Friday . . . after a slight postponement. The get-together had originally been scheduled for last Tuesday but that, of course, was the day of the Simpson trial verdicts. Yes, even the Mouseketeers were spellbound.
GEE--IF YOU CAN’T BELIEVE THE TABLOIDS . . . : Harvey Geller of Tarzana points out that the headline in the Sept. 26 National Examiner said: “Secret Jury Poll Reveals Surprise Verdict: O.J. Guilty.”
ON THIN ICE: The National Hockey League season has just begun and we’re repeating this warning to the not-so-mighty L.A. Kings from Police Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd).
In the 1987 version of “Dragnet,” Friday mused:
“Sure, this city isn’t perfect. We need a smut-free life for all our citizens, cleaner streets, better schools, a good hockey team. . . .”
PARKING SQUEEZE: Bill Miller of Signal Hill found a restaurant that seems to have a system of doubling up cars to save space.
ONLY 78 SHOPPING DAYS LEFT: Al Kaelin of L.A. notes that since September a Target store in Alhambra has been displaying a variety of jack-o’-lanterns--on a 12-foot-tall Christmas tree.
BUT IS IT ENDORSED BY BARRY SCHECK?A reader sent in an ad for a product called”DNA Away,” which actually was in use before the Simpson trial. Listed in the Fisher Scientific Catalogue, it’s described as a decontaminant “for use on plastic and glass labware or for cleaning countertops.”
MORE FITTING FOR A GARAGE SALE: The chugging, coughing late-’40s Ford pickup truck that Redd Foxx drove in the 1970s TV series, “Sanford and Son,” is for sale. It’s part of the Hollywood Picture Vehicles Auction Oct. 14 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A. A publicist swore to us that the jalopy still runs.
LIST OF THE DAY: Dennis Chandler of Torrance, a member of a crew renovating City Hall, found part of a May 4, 1927, issue of the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (now defunct) stuffed in a pipe.
The newspaper contained articles about:
* A conference aimed at “reducing traffic accidents in Los Angeles.”
* Plans for a sanitarium “for narcotics addicts.”
* A meat market owner complaining that doctors are telling their patients not to eat too much meat.
* A cigar-smoker saying he is discriminated against.
* A woman masquerading as a man while “hanging around a Downtown cigar store at 2 o’clock in the morning.”
Nice to know L.A. hasn’t changed all that much in the last 68 years.
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When O.J. Simpson was arrested, some historians said he was the most famous American to be accused of a killing since Vice President Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Burr, incidentally, not only served no time for the killing, he was never even brought to trial for the incident.
