  Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1008 Registered: 10-2003 |
Remember him on Channel 9? http://www.detroitkidshow.com/ toby_david.htm | ||
Newport1128 Member Username: Newport1128 Post Number: 196 Registered: 05-2007 |
I think Toby David lived in Grosse Pointe during the 1960's. His son, Jerry, attended St. Ambrose elementary school for awhile, and I used to see him in church occasionally. Toby always seemed like a nice, unassuming guy. As it states in the article, he always did a lot of charitable work, especially for hospitalized kids. | ||
Jazzfan Member Username: Jazzfan Post Number: 18 Registered: 07-2008 |
Didn't he live in Grosse Pointe Park? I think he lived around the block from my parent's friends. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1009 Registered: 10-2003 |
Toby David did live in Grosse Pointe. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 764 Registered: 01-2008 |
I was 7 when Captain Jolly's show was cancelled, can hardly remember it, but didn't he have an old crank telephone on the wall behind him, and when he got a call, the mouthpiece would squirt water in his face?? | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 2174 Registered: 02-2007 |
"Fireball XL-5", "Eighth Man"..my world revolved around their daily episodes. Poopdeck Paul needed a better name, though. (Message edited by Larryinflorida on July 25, 2008) | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1010 Registered: 10-2003 |
According to Paul Schultz's son, his dad made up the name ten minutes before airtime. | ||
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak Post Number: 116 Registered: 04-2008 |
Better than Shitface Sammy, I guess. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1011 Registered: 10-2003 |
I'd hate to see the puppets from that show. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 766 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: They're on CSPAN. | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 79 Registered: 01-2008 |
Before he chose the moniker "Poopdeck Paul" Mr. Schultz mulled over the name "Ensign Ben Dover". | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 2176 Registered: 02-2007 |
I think he got promoted to Rear Admiral, later. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1013 Registered: 10-2003 |
Bak, Look what you've started. (Message edited by ed golick on July 25, 2008) | ||
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak Post Number: 130 Registered: 04-2008 |
I know. It's obviously a slow Friday night for a lot of posters, Ed. | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 80 Registered: 01-2008 |
Another local TV celeb who resided in GP around the time of Toby David was movie host Bill Kennedy. He lived fairly out in public view on Seven Mile (Moross) near Mack. As a student at De La Salle around this time,I heard rumor that Mr. Kennedy was fair game for local east side teens and was an object of upraised fingers, mooning and lawn jobs. Is this an Urban Legend or not? Any info, kids? | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 2179 Registered: 02-2007 |
I'm pleased to say that Capt'ns influence was permanent. I now have the DVD box sets of "Fireball XL-5" and "Supercar" Supa-Carrrrrrr! | ||
Richard_bak Member Username: Richard_bak Post Number: 132 Registered: 04-2008 |
Could very well be. He could come across as pompous and self-important, but a lot of that was part of his shtick. I interviewed him a few times and he was always cool to me. He had a million great stories, a lot of which he couldn't use on TV or in polite company. I wish he'd written a book. He did the voiceover for the original Superman show. Got paid a flat $300 for doing one of the most famous VO's ever. | ||
Luckycar Member Username: Luckycar Post Number: 88 Registered: 02-2007 |
"Shitface Sammy"!Now that my oj has come flying out of my nose onto the monitor,thanks RB.I remember how creepy those shows seemed to this little kid.Can't remember which show it was on,but there was a cartoon about a family going into space and their travels.Night sweats about that one.The best show on Windsor 9 was that low budget classic Lord Layton and his wrestling buddies.The Sheik, Haystacks,Ernie Ladd..... | ||
Suma Member Username: Suma Post Number: 2 Registered: 11-2007 |
Captain Jolly (Toby David) also lived in East English Village. In later years his son also lived here for several years. | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1014 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sludgedaddy, Let's just say that there's a lot about Kennedy that didn't make the papers. | ||
Sallypizza Member Username: Sallypizza Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2008 |
I was on the Poopdeck Paul and Captian Jolly show when I was in 1st grade or so. They had a Beatles Mimic contest and we went to Canada to "sing" Misery. It was Introducing the Beatles before they had the American release Meet the Beatles. I have the pictures on my I-pod. In case you are wondering - I was John. It was great fun. | ||
Snoringbeagle Member Username: Snoringbeagle Post Number: 33 Registered: 02-2008 |
I remember how Capt. Jolly would make his biceps jump. I was reading this with my hands on my head and unconsciously started doing it. :-) | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1016 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sallypizza, Share, please. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 769 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: Big Time Wrestling, my brothers and I rarely missed the show on Saturday afternoons..some of the other wrestlers were Bobo Brazil,(good guy) Wild Bull Curry (bad guy...bites!), his son Flying Fred Curry (good guy to bad guy) Mark Lewin (good guy, sleeper hold?) Mighty Igor (good guy) Cannonball (bad guy) Pampero Firpo, (bad guy) Nikoli Volkov and Boris Volkov, The Kangaroos, The Hells Angels, The Texas Outlaws, Big Time Wrestling lasted from the early 60s to the late 70s. | ||
Eastsidedame Member Username: Eastsidedame Post Number: 440 Registered: 12-2006 |
I wanted to join the Navy because of the Capt.! Luckly, 8 year olds were exempt from the draft. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 734 Registered: 02-2005 |
Suma-I think Capt Jolly lived on Harvard off Mack. In EEV. I lived on Bishop off Mack, and from what the rumors were, thats what the neighbors said. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 267 Registered: 08-2006 |
My father was a stockboy back in the day & said even though he drove a new Imperial that cheap-ass George Pierrot would never tip....& he couldn't even grant total consciousness on your deathbed, either. I'm all ears for a good Bill Kennedy story, tho http://jim.rees.org/trips/kenn edy | ||
7_and_kelly_kid Member Username: 7_and_kelly_kid Post Number: 235 Registered: 12-2007 |
Dick the Bruiser reigns! | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 2330 Registered: 11-2007 |
Flanders_field - I was on a plane from LAX to Detroit Metro in the early 70's with most of those wrestlers you mention. We had a few drinks in the back of the plane. I think it was Flying Fred Curry, who had no neck, and his voice sounded like gravel in a garbage disposal. But he really talked that way. The nicest guys you could ever meet. | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 290 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Supa-Carrrrrrr!" I hear ya Larry !   My own box set of a different kind  | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 2182 Registered: 02-2007 |
It's the Marvel of the Age, Ragtoplover.=) | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 773 Registered: 01-2008 |
Loved the evil fish who plotted against the marionettes inside the Supercar, esp the one with the glasses, LOL!! Damn...that was a looong time ago!! (Message edited by Flanders_field on July 26, 2008) | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 291 Registered: 09-2006 |
Flanders_field, Good list of wrestlers you have there, One of my fav's was Sailor R Thomas. I also remember when "Pretty Boy Bobby Heenan" was always getting his head busted open by someone, and he wasn't even wrestling. And I seem to recall that "Dick the Bruiser" was to have had a steel plate in his head, I kind of thought of him as an early version of the Bionic Man. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 774 Registered: 01-2008 |
Thats a mint condition school lunchbox, Ragtop, I presume you collect them. I had a Gunsmoke lunchbox as a schoolkid, one day I when I was walking home from school, I noticed that the latch of the lunchbox had opened, and my thermos was missing. I retraced my steps and found it near a curb a few blocks back, crushed flat by a car, apparently. Needless to say, I got punished when I told my mother what happened to it. | ||
Sallypizza Member Username: Sallypizza Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2008 |
Here are the photos requested - ENJOY : ) I am the Beatle on the right - 1964 - Poopdeck Paul Show.    | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1021 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sallypizza, Please email me. detroittvguy at hotmail.com | ||
Ragtoplover59 Member Username: Ragtoplover59 Post Number: 292 Registered: 09-2006 |
Very cool pictures Sally, Thanks for sharing. | ||
Steve Member Username: Steve Post Number: 242 Registered: 02-2006 |
Lord Layton hosted Big Time Wrestling on Channel 9. Fred Wolf hosted the wrestling show on Channel 7. What was its name? And where did Sam Menaker fit in? Didn't he host Big Time Wrestling for a while? Although I liked Larry Chene, Louis Klein, Ricky "the Crusher" Cortez and the others, I always preferred Big Time Wrestling. | ||
Plymouthres Member Username: Plymouthres Post Number: 816 Registered: 02-2007 |
I remember going to Louie Klein's gym in Allen Park in the 60's! | ||
Steve Member Username: Steve Post Number: 243 Registered: 02-2006 |
I saw Crusher Cortez vs. Larry Chene at the Oak Park High gym in 1965. Something tells me you never would have seen the Bruiser in a place like that. | ||
Sallypizza Member Username: Sallypizza Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2008 |
Oh, I took my cousin to see "The Mighty Egor" at JF Kennedy High School in Taylor 1973/74? special event and I could not believe it. He jumped off the balcony onto his back. The Mighty Egor swung him around and carried him off into the dressing room. Michael finally came out (thank God - I was 16 and did not want to get in trouble for loosing my little cuz). He told me "It's all real, I saw the big bruses." But I think this thread got off track a bit. | ||
Grumpyoldlady Member Username: Grumpyoldlady Post Number: 180 Registered: 06-2005 |
I believe the water squirting from the phone was a Soupy Sales gag, wasn't it? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 1022 Registered: 10-2003 |
Next to Soupy's door was a knothole with a cork in it and a sign overhead that read "Do Not Touch." When Soupy pulled the cork out, he would get soaked. When Captain Jolly's phone rang he would pick up the receiver, say 'hello," and water would squirt out of the mouthpiece. Didn't take much to entertain us back in the day. |
