Comments on Lloyd Thaxton: HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD

Hello Lloyd: I remember seeing the LTS on Chicago ...

2008-07-09T12:55:00.000-07:00

Hello Lloyd:

I remember seeing the LTS on Chicago television around 1966. I would have been about nine years old. I LOVED the show because you quite obviously had no budget and would get audience members to lip-synch, which I thought was hilarious.

I also seem to remember (correct me if I'm wrong here) first witnessing the phenomena that was Bo Diddley. He came on your show and lip-synched "Bo Diddley's a Gun Slinger," along with the Duchess, his female guitar counterpart.

I went on to become a HUGE Bo Diddley nut. I saw him in concert many times and it was truly sad to hear of his passing this year.

Thanks for the memories!

Tom Tuerff
ttuerff.blogspot.com

Uncle Lloyd,Kudos to you on your version of the "H...

2008-04-04T10:15:00.000-07:00

Uncle Lloyd,
Kudos to you on your version of the "Homes of the Stars" tour. We really enjoyed your personal touch and we were so excited to see where Brad Pitt lives!! It's a shame everyone doesn't have a "great" uncle to show them around!
We look forward to reading everyone's input on sprucing up Hollywood.
Brynn (and Carly)

Sometimes I think it's cooler being a fan than a c...

2008-03-31T20:08:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I think it's cooler being a fan than a celeb.
No one really cares if I walk into Safeway unshaven. I also happen to know that it's a helluva lot more exciting for a fan to meet a celebrity than visa versa.

I used to visit LA all the time in the 80s and 90s...

2008-03-31T19:42:00.000-07:00

I used to visit LA all the time in the 80s and 90s. I think the last time I was there was about 1998, though. Man, I sure miss it! Several things I always did was set aside different days for certain things. I would usually arrive on a Saturday and just take it easy. On Sunday, I would take the rented car and just cruise around, pretend I was a local, and just drive like a maniac on the freeway. When I was hungry I would search for either Sonic, Carl's Jr., or In 'n' Out (we don't have them where I come from). If I was in the Burbank area it was always Bob's Big Boy.
On Monday, it was cemetery time! I would go to all of the cemeteries and visit the latest stars who have passed since the last time I was there. Now, this will tell you when I was there last......Carl Wilson (Beach Boy) died in Feb. 1998. When I was there in March of '98, his marker was recently put in and it looked like it was put in that day. It was so fresh, compared to Marilyn's and Natalie Woods'. I also got to visit with Dean Martin and several other stars at Westwood. I also went to the two big Forest Lawn's and several others. I may have taken two days for the others.
Then I go and do the studio tours. Nope, not Universal. Too trendy and commercial for me. I do Warner Bros. and Paramount. Good walking tours. Those are each about a 2 hour tour, but they seem longer and very informative. If time permits, I usually take in a taping of a sitcom. By this time it's Thursday, then it's the old GraveLine Tours (plug plug). I wanna see the SCANDALOUS side of Hollywood! Where the murders were, where people died, where the secret affairs were.......you know, THE JUICY STUFF!! After that tour I hop in the car and go on my own tours and drive through Beverly Hills, Bel-Aire, Holmby Hills....the fancy shmancy places and see if I can find somebody famous. I've seen pix of the REAL stars homes, so I go drive by the ones I've heard of (Playboy mansion, Ronald Reagan's 666 home, George Burns, Lucille Ball, etc.) I've even found the home that was used for the outside shot for the Cunninghams on HAPPY DAYS, the houses used for HALLOWEEN, the "Brady Bunch" house, and others. Robert Blake lives not far from the Brady house (Mata Hari was painted on Blake's house when I was there). Friday I take in an NBC tour and a Leno taping and Saturday I'm on my way back home. Never enough time in a week for me to do everything I want. Since it's been so long since I was there last, there's TONS of new graves to visit and other new places to check out! I would love to meet up with Uncle Lloyd sometime, just to say...THANK YOU.
NEXT!
Gary