JESUS CHRIST! I post this innocuous item about ordering a couple Kasper's hot dogs and get inundated with obesity and fat comments, holy cow go out and breathe a little--and when you're hungry, get a burger at Quarter Pound if there's too long a line at Kaspers. Holy cow!
*Years ago I had a cheeseburger at the Dimond district Quarter Pound with the late KTVU superstar reporter, Bob Mackenzie --if Bob is reading me from heaven now, thanks for the burger, shake and fries,
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| Rita Williams with Frank Somerville |
*That doofus sports anchor, Chris Alvarez, the weekend guy at KGO, is supposedly a real schmuck according to a longtime Circle7 staffer who knows where the bodies are buried at 900 Front. An assessment about Alvarez from the staffer? "He's an idiot" --Nuff said.
*Speaking of KTVU, no one you know (nor do I) was given the heave-ho (YET) but I'll still be watching and looking for FOX-mandated cuts that are due to HIT KTVU and there's still a lot of that taking place soon.
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| Melanie Woodrow |
*If Circle7 Investigative Reporter, Melanie Woodrow were to actually have a personality and not HIDE in the market, she'd become far more popular and far more engaging. That's not in her playbook. She does some decent work every now and then, but is so elusive and mysterious, I don't know.
*Gary Park of KTVU fame, for several years before going to work at the studio, used to have dinner alone at the Chinatown Oakland restaurant, The Lantern. I saw him firsthand every Thursday or Friday sitting by himself and not making any noise. He was very private and also very cordial. Gary was kind enough to say "hi" to my mom at the time when we both left from the restaurant (my mother didn't care about any celebrity at all) suffice to say, an indelible mark on 1970's images growing up: Gary Park, a real star and mysteriously cool.
*OK, another off-the-beaten path place in Oakland to get fat and lazy but damn, the burgers were delicious and CHEAP: Kwik Way near Lake Merritt --Doug Murphy's favorite hangout after beer consumption. Kwik Way sort of a rich man's Doggy Diner.
| Gasia Mikaelian |
If Len Tillem doesn't have his law practice anymore there's no reason for him to return to radio. He was mostly there just to drum up business.
ReplyDeleteGary Park died after a bout with cancer in 2009. One has to wonder if eating at a Chinese restaurant every day contributed to that. Terrible disease. RIP.
ReplyDeleteFalse. The most compelling thing about Gasia are her starts with a c and ends in ans.
ReplyDeleteEveryone talks about her hair because their is nothing else. Shes got big cans because of her stature. Take away the cans and the 30 or so pounds she has put on and what do you have left? A checker working at the local Assyrian market... Searching for VDLC's babies daddy and Jeff Adachi's real killer.
DeleteGasia might want to explore the do-it-yourself waxing systems available at CVS. Her 5 o'clock shadow is a bit distracting.
Delete1/4 pounder, the best!!!
ReplyDeleteRita Williams was good, but #2 behind Amy Hollyfield of ABC 7
ReplyDeleteas the best street reporter in the Bay Area. Allie Rasmus of
KTVU is a contender as well.
Kasper's hot dogs are one of the few things I miss about Oakland
ReplyDeleteThere are Kasper's in Concord and Pleasant Hill.
DeleteThe one in PH is better IMO.
DeleteMet, and had a lengthy chat with Williams, in the early '90s. Very, very nice lady! Excellent reporter, as well.
ReplyDeleteWas that photo of Melanie Woodrow ever Photoshoped! Either that, or she has cleavage in the strangest place ever.
ReplyDeleteSorry, only Casper's is left Kasper's long gone.
ReplyDeleteThere is still a Kasper's in Fremont. I was just there and bought 2 dozen dogs for the freezer. Better dogs than Casper's.
Delete- Hollyfield would tell you that Williams equaled Gold Standard.
ReplyDelete- Woodrow may be mysterious for the simple reason that the assignments she receives at KGO are mostly investigative with very thorny stories to dig up. Woodrow the last year or two has filled in on the Consumer side when both Finney & Noyes take a week off.
- In other words, Alvarez has picked up a lot of Beil's bad habits.
- 1/4 Pounder and Kwik Way - both iconically one of a kind. The former still has multiple Oakland stores and one on Mission Blvd in Hayward next to the Plunge. The latter: among Oakland's greatest.
- Williams, one of the greatest reporters ever and, as seen in the photo above with Somerville, one of the sweetest people to grace the airwaves. Both Somerville and before that Richmond had the highest regard for her work.