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Ive been watching reruns of 77 Suiset Strip lately. Its a lesson on what cool and hip is over the years. When I was watching this in the late 50s and 60s this was THE show to watch on TV. If you didn’t watch anything else, you watched this. So much dejavu comes over when I watch this
Kookie was the hottest thing since sliced bread,a real teen heart throb. NOw he just seems irritating as hell. When you look at what was coming down the pike in the 60s you can see how irrelevant his brand of hip was, it went nowhere. THe other guys were older, more conservative, but they knew everything and everybody. I always thought I would make a good sidekick for these guys, you know, finding out what the word on the street was.
SO much of what my ideas about being grown up came from this show. I wanted to be a private eye and cruise around in a hot car kissing every beautiful woman I met within 3 minutes of meeting her,. Just like real life. Yet they never had sex, that wasn’t even implied in those days. They look so cool and though they never actually did much work they had a lot of adventures, which was what I wanted to do. Grow up and not do much work and have adventures (I finally did this)
My problem was I could never see myself wearing a suit and tie all day. Really, that was a major consideration about what I wanted to do. And I never did. I’ve never had a job that required a suit and tie.
Still, I carry this bunch around in my mind. They were my faithful friends: Stu, Jeff, Roscoe, Kookie, Suzanne, JR…... all through high school, always there in Friday night….untill they weren’t. One day they changed the whol format to Stu Bailey, Private Detective and let everybody else go. The series died that year.
Gingy, man, gingy