[Dan in Pasadena]

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You nailed it. I think it was Ralph Chavez..but I could easily be mistaking him for, "Hi Friends, Ralph William at Ralph Williams Ford". In that nasily tone of his. Fat bald guy in the days before being bald was cool. I THINK Ralph's dog (to compete with Cal Worthington's menagerie) was his white German Shepherd, "Storm".

So you remember the great local news guys we used to have. I loved Ralph Story, in his later days he had Stephanie Edwards with him on some non-news feature show, Ralph Story's Los Angeles I think it was. She was a babe. She fit the very definition of a big nasty redhead. Stephanie's getting along in years now, good thing I'm not! And Gil Stratton the Sportscaster?

Yeah, I remember going to Irwindale Raceway, Lions and Orange County International..you could watch the end of runs from the southbound 5 Fwy if your timing was right.

Doesn't seem so long ago but it really, really is.