Antiques Roadshow appraisal 1/3/22 AND 1/24

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Originally Posted by BobC

Thanks Rob, that's the thread I was thinking about. Not the exact same calendar, but still maybe raising questions as to authenticity it seems.

You're from Parma??? Are you old enough to remember late night movies with "Ghoulardi"?

[BobC]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

You're from Parma??? Are you old enough to remember late night movies with "Ghoulardi"?

Heck yeah, you kidding? I even remember Ernie Anderson coming with the old Channel 8 softball team to play an exhibition game at the Valley View (where I grew up) Home Days one Summer in the mid-'60s. Big Chuck was on that team as well, but he was still a camera man then. If you remember where the old Cloverleaf Speedway was, I grew up a little less than a mile south of it right on Canal Road. I literally grew up across the street from the Cuyahoga River and the Ohio Canal, right at the 11 mile lock.

Parma spelled backwards is------------A---M---R---A---P!

Loved watching him every Friday night after the late news. Can still remember him blowing up plastic models with firecrackers live on the air. (Cool it wid-da boom-booms!) And always loved the segments where they'd play Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen.

You originally from around here?

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I grew up north of Columbus but we got Ghoulardi. Wasn’t Parma the butt of his jokes? A Cleveland kid turned me on to RUSH, my first year at Ohio U.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I grew up north of Columbus but we got Ghoulardi. Wasn’t Parma the butt of his jokes? A Cleveland kid turned me on to RUSH, my first year at Ohio U.

Yes he did make fun of Parma, that was the reason for my quoting one of his famous lines on the show, "Parma spelled backwoods is - A M R A P! (And there actually is a street in Parma named Amrap Drive.) He also did a recurring comedy bit on his show called "Parma Place", which was a takeoff on the soap opera "Peyton Place" And it was so well liked, the city and Mayor of Parma contacted the local CBS TV station to have the bit removed from the air, which they did going forward.

But that isn't Parma's only claim to fame. Remember the old "The Drew Carey Show" that was on from the mid-'90s to the early '00s? Well, most people always seem to remember "Cleveland Rocks" as the show's theme song. Truth is, for the very first, and a few other, seasons, the theme song was actually a little ditty called "Moon Over Parma", that Carey actually sang.

And that's a great shout out for Ohio U. (one of the best party schools of all time) and Rush. I actually saw Rush perform on their initial tour in the U.S., promoting their first album, at an iconic Cleveland rock-n-roll club and nite spot, the Agora. Remember sitting at the very back of the room, on top of a table, leaning up against the wall with my bottle of beer in hand, listening to and being blown away by the opening riff from "Working Man". And even then I wasn't more than 40 feet away from Geddy Lee. And it was a Monday night to boot. Good stuff!

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I guess this is turning into the Ohio thread …..

My first concert ever was at the Columbus Agora - Canned Heat! Pretty sure my buddy’s mom dropped us off.