The McCarty Metro - A Blast From The Past

A BLAST FROM THE PAST

ED NOTE: Our Blast From The Past page contains memories from 5 years to 100 years ago. I encourage all suscribers to submit their memories, photos, and ideas to blast@mccartymetro.com to have them shared with our family.

THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD

A Blast From The Past from the old neighborhood in Detroit. Enjoy, some pictures and memories from our stomping grounds in Detroit from our childhood, as compared as today, including Edgewater Park, the Atlas Theater, the ringing bells of the Good Humor Man, Detroit television pesonalities including Soupy Sales, Johnny Ginger, Jingles, Bozo, Milky the Clown, and Captain Jolly.

How many of these places and other photos from the old neighborhood do you remember?

OTHER DETROIT MEMORIES...

You remember that Jo-Jo Shutty, who made history as the first female helicopter news traffic and reporter in the U.S and Canada for CKLW radio, was married to CK's legendary news broadcaster Byron MacGregor. You remember no music broadcasts on Sunday nights...except on WJLB the soul station. They would play Aretha Franklin, Temps, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson. Their main sponsor was the Gold Room at the Twenty Grand Nightclub. "Come on down to the Golf Room at the Twenty Grand, where one bean will put you on the scene, so be keen, like Ernie D." You remember near Thanksgiving time, Ted Strasser and his program, Patterns in Music, on WJR, and his lovely reading of the last two leaves entitled "Winter." You listened each night to the smooth voice of Bud Guest on WJR as he read his dad's poems and played soothing music. You remember "Music 'Til Dawn" sponsored by American Airlines on WWJ radio. You shopped at Wrigley's where they had child-sized grocery carts. You remember Mr. Belvedere's backup slogan, "You'll look at it, you'll love it, and you'll take your time paying for it," and how CKLW's Bozo, Art Cervi, used to quote that line on Bozo's Big Top to Mr. Calliope (pronounced Cal-e-opie). You had your first hot bagels ever from the New York Bagel Factory on Linwood while working as a jumper on a Detroit News truck. You know "Brewster the Goebel Rooster" was the Detroit Tigers sponsor. Went to the National Bank of Detroit (downtown) to try on a glass slipper to see if it fit -- to make you feel like Cinderella -- and get a candy bar if it didn't.

MAY 1999

BRAD SAVAGE TOP 10 LIST

After being in entertainment business for the past 4 decades, I've settled into my new role as "Web Boy". I've seen the good sites, as well as the bad ones. This month's Top 10 List deals with the latter.

Top 10 clues that you have a bad web site

10. The address keeps changing because web site managers keep locking the author out
9. Only one brother submits articles for it
8. Your "sure fire" material was written in the early 90s by a record boy named Eric
7. You count on a pink background to diversify your audience
6. One button says "Click here to enter", and the other says "I wouldn't do that if I were you"
5. The breaking news was about a baptism that happened over a month ago
4. The only good part of the whole site used to be listening to the whiney voiced disk jockey... and they took it off!!
3. You feel sorry for the webmaster, so you keep hitting the reload button to advance the hit counter (by the way guys, I appreciate it)
2. GeoCities even realizes it's a waste of time to advertise on the page
1. The entire Top 10 list refers to this page!!!!

DATELINE NEWS

Dateline Shelby Township, Michigan: Reporter Mike McCarty covered the Baptism of Megan Kelly McCarty. Mike came up with these interesting tidbits overheard at Megan's baptism and party...

"I want to sit in Dino Ciccarrelli's pew."
"Is there anybody here WITHOUT a camera?"
"That's right, honey, your godfather is the editor, which means you'll have a job on the Metro someday. By the way, Uncle Kelly wants to know if you can start right away. After Gull Lake, that is."
Boy, these onions and peppers are good. Gotta get the recipe."
"Yeah, it sure looks like him, but didn't James Dean die or something?"
"Yeah, it sure looks like his godfather, but it can't be. I think that's his brother."
"Man, how much grass seed you think they had to spread to get this carpet?"

Dateline Utica, Michigan: Unconfirmed reports say that Jerry McCarty may enter the Utica 1 Mile Run on Saturday, May 22, 1999, if he can fit it into his busy schedule. This news is playing havoc with the Las Vegas oddmakers who can't seem to figure out which Mac to back in this prestigious race.

HUDSON BROTHERS RAZZLE DAZZLE SHOW

The Hudson Brothers are an American music group from Portland, Oregon in the 1970s consisting of brothers Bill Hudson, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson.

They starred in The Hudson Brothers Show, a TV variety hour Wednesday nights on CBS starting July 31, 1974 to August 28, 1974, followed by The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show on CBS Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1974 to August 30, 1975, in a half-hour format. Video Service Corp. released the complete Razzle Dazzle series on DVD on June 17, 2008.