My brother brought me an old photo album that I hadn’t seen for a really long time. These pics are ancient, lol! They date mostly from around 1982, when i was 26, or about half my current age haha. The caricature is from when I was a DJ at a local club.
Notice the record I’m breaking! The others are from my ventriloquist days, wth the oldest one from 1974. Like unicycling, I always seemed to had ave knack for getting publicity. Btw, I went my Terry “Miller” back then. Used it also in radio announcing.
Dj Days. 1985
First newspaper writeup, 1974 (Worked at shoe store!)
At the Laugh Factory
Last publicity still, 1990
with “Jack Squat”, “Little John” and “Hilda”
Haha it just popped into my head. that’s an actual book I just pasted a different pic into it since there was just a pic of some guy but no dummy.:o
Lol, I remember “Leisure” suits, but I never owned one. That was just a leather jacket I had on, but I guess it did kinda have that style. I remember I was so excited when I bought it from my first check from my job at the time! I did wear platform shoes for a time and flaired dress pants. But also I had a hippy streak with tie-died shirts and HUGE bell bottom jeans and flip flops.
Btw, I almost went to Woodstock, (1969) but my parents were too scared to let me go with my friends. I was almost 14 then, but they were just way too over protective!
You don’t want to live through the 70s. The shorts were embarrassingly short. People today (especially kids) wouldn’t be caught dead in them. They think above-the-knee is short (evidenced by this and this). Try a one-inch inseam.
Yep, I remember the infamous cutoff jeans made into SHORT shorts that [straight] guys wore then! But that was considered cool and an every day thing to wear back then, but if a guy wore them today, he would be thought of as gay… but Seinfeld would say, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”, haha.
I loved the toilet puppet, and am surprised nobody mentioned it yet!
And yes to the shorts-of-old. I started riding unicycles in the fall of 1979. The first few years of unicycle meets I went to, that’s what we all wore. Imagine riding a unicycle all day in cut-off jeans shorts. Ouch! And they thought we were nerds when we started wearing bike shorts…
If you dare wear short shorts Nair for short shorts.
(yes, we’re old)
Sometimes I can’t believe how old I am. Like when I catch myself saying something like “I did that 30 years ago” or “wow, I haven’t seen this person in over 25 years.” But I don’t feel or look old.
Yeah I created “little John” (I thought that was such a clever name for it haha!) and the other characters. One of my favorite things was writing all the material for my act, but many times I would ad lib with the audience and that was really working without a net! I had lots of fun performing and doing cruise ships, corporate shows and even played the Tropicana in Vegas.
The kids will be wearing those shorts again in a few years and they will think how cool they look. Afterall, shorts cannot get much longer than they are now. They can only go up.
If they were not short enough you could always roll the leg up as far as it would go. I remember shorts so short our pockets would hang out. I think we were lucky the only thing hanging out was the pockets.
Btw, I went my Terry “Miller” back then. Used it also in radio announcing.
