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LADoug1 Mentor

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I remember it well. (for those who don't know it was a coffee shop/diner with a bar that sat inside a parking lot right on S Monica Bl in the heart of the street hustler district (inside the parking lot was designated for the "trans" working boys/girls) It was cheap tacky open all nite and in the wee hours usually full of hot street boys spending $$ they'd made on what was prolly their first good meal of the day :) I often eavesdropped on their story-swapping about their John's of that night what they did how much they got etc etc, it fascinated me. And saddened me at same time, hearing enough was made to finally get sneakers cause the flip flops he was wearing were all he had and it was cold, or didn't make enough for a room for the night, stuff like that. It's all different now, at least on my last trip 3 yrs ago. You occasionally see them, but way East on the Bl, not in the heart of it anymore.

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Chicken fried steak at Yukon. Yum!

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bigvalboy Grand Master

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In my list of Gay Restaurants of yore I meant to include The Garden District, another of the more upscale gay restaurants, where everyone entering would be greeted by Frieda the bartender with a cry of " Walter, Larry, Honey, it's so good to see you again" even if you'd never set foot in the place.

Yes, the beloved French Quarter is now closed and scheduled to be torn down and replaced with a 5 story building. People used to wait for an hour on Sunday for a table on the Patio to watch the world go by on Santa Monica Blvd.

Oh dear, I've become a nostalgic old queen.

 

Thanks for the update, and for bringing back such wonderful memories. And...lol, there is nothing wrong with being a nostalgic old queen. God I loved LA. I don't think that you can really appreciate the old girl until you leave and look back, and realize the magic. Yes yes I know, I've talked unkindly about her in the past, but in the end, it was my life for more than a half a century, and I loved every single minute of it, and I wouldn't have changed a thing.

Tonyko Proficient

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AND THEN THERE WAS "THIS" GUY. OFT HEARD COMMENTS FROM GRANDFATHERLY GENTS BOUT SOME OLD 1960-ISH SHOW CALLED "SURFSIDE 6" (APPARRANTLY THREE YOUNG DUDES THAT INCLD TROY DONOHUE WHO RUN A DETECTIVE AGENCY AND LIVE TOGETHER ON A HOUSEBOAT?) WHEN I LOOKED IT UP IT BECAME OBVS WHAT THE DRAW WAS, A GUY I NEVER HEARD OF NAMED VAN WILLIAMS. WOW LOL.

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HAPPY TO KNOW HE'S STILL WITH US, IN HIS 80'S NOW :-)

Tonyko Proficient

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Van Williams also played the Green Hornet on TV.

 

~ Boomer ~

Wow. I don't know that show. (if it wasn't in reruns circa 1980- on then I missed it lol)

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Wow thanks for those great shots of Van Williams! He was always one of my favorites. One of the over-the-air stations played GREEN HORNET within recent times and I recorded every episode. Not once did they get him shirtless on that show!! No wonder it only lasted one season!

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I found a pic of Van Williams and Bruce Lee horsing around on the beach.

https://www.google.com/search?q=van+williams+actor&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq1oTmovLOAhUB4GMKHT_uDzUQ_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=672#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=van+williams+and+bruce+lee&imgdii=otOGVtKCjcJ6xM:;qtShcNpCKej5DM:;qtShcNpCKej5DM:&imgrc=qtShcNpCKej5DM:

I'm not sure if I can paste it but the link will lead you to it.

purplekow Grand Master

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This was similar to 77 Sunset Strip with Edd "Kooky" Byrnes.

 

 

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A mildly successful record back in the 50's Kooky Lend Me Your Comb. It was the ginchiest.
bigvalboy Grand Master

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Nice Body2body!!

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what a pair!

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Oh my god, my mind is reeling as sexual scenarios involving these two objects of my adolescent fantasies race through my head (s)

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Oh my god, my mind is reeling as sexual scenarios involving these two objects of my adolescent fantasies race through my head (s)

AND both still alive so......anythang's poss lol.

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Clicking on the above link gives a lot of (appealing) pictures but in the middle there's one enlarged in a black field

on the left. On the right it says "Van Williams and Bruce Lee ...". Underneath that is a (square) button

which says "View Image". (or at least it does in Firefox on a mac).

 

Click on that "View Image" link, copy the web address in your browser and paste it into a posting here

either directly or using the "insert image" button in the editing tools row at the top of the area you enter postings in the forum (next to the smiley face) and you get:

 

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Tonyko Proficient

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FORGOT TO ADD THESE TWO INTERESTING BEAUTIFUL BOYBABES. ABERCROMBIE GUYS? EURO MODELS? BELIEVE IT NOT THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY RUDOLPH KOPPITZ IN GERMANY IN 19 TWENTY TWO.

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great series, @Tonyko ......did not know that was Brad Pitt until @purplekow mentioned it up thread......really like nostalgic stuff like this.......

What was the show with Gardner McKay in the 1960s. He was the captain of a small boat in the Pacific Islands. Holy cow, he was gorgeous. Later, he became a successful playwright. I was allowed to watch 2 t.v. programs in the evening if my homework was done and on the nights McKay's show was on, I made sure every scrap of my schoolwork was completed. My parents thought I liked the show for the stories. Later on, they learned the real reason I liked it so much!

azdr0710 Grand Master

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What was the show with Gardner McKay in the 1960s. He was the captain of a small boat in the Pacific Islands. Holy cow, he was gorgeous. Later, he became a successful playwright. I was allowed to watch 2 t.v. programs in the evening if my homework was done and on the nights McKay's show was on, I made sure every scrap of my schoolwork was completed. My parents thought I liked the show for the stories. Later on, they learned the real reason I liked it so much!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_McKay

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_Paradise_(TV_series)

 

http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/gmckay.html

 

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BasketBaller Mentor

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Some cable station showed The Green Hornet a few years ago, focusing on Bruce Lee's Kato. But Van Williams, even with shirt on, caught my eye! What was up with TV in the late 50s through the 60s? Did anyone question all the beefcake?

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