Every now & again (usually late at night with a rain storm) I can get KOMA clear over here in Idaho. I love that station...I wish I could get it all the time....but then I'd have to live in my truck :) Alli ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Bibb" <hbbibb@cwis.net> To: <OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [OKGEN ] Shakey's Pizza. > I also watched the Foreman Scotty show along with my kids. Some of those things you just don't forget. A couple of years ago I saw Danny Williams at Affair of The Heart.. OKC fair grounds. He was doing what he has always done best, still a DJ for KOMA radio, which has been around for a while... > Betty > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gene Philips > To: OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 11:51 PM > Subject: [OKGEN ] Shakey's Pizza. > > > Sometime in the early 80's. Shortly before Shakey's went out of business, I > was at the one on the southside. I think it was on S Penn and I-240. We're > eating our pizza when my wife says, Look there's Foreman Scotty. Anyone > that was a kid in the 60's near OKC knew Foreman Scotty. He had an > afternoon kids show on Channel 4. It had a live audience and also a taped > series. It took place on the Circle 4 Ranch. Foreman Scotty was every kids > hero. He had all kinds of adventures, including going back in time and > going into outer space. The spaceman was 3d Danny. AKA Danny Williams who > last I heard was the morning DJ on KOMA. Anyway, back to Shakey's. I looked > over and saw if was Foreman Scotty. Older and a little heavier. He was > wearing the same type of clothes that he wore on the show, including the > cowboy hat. If you remember Shakey's you remember that at the lunch buffet, > they gave you a 10" pizza pan to put your food on. Well Foreman Scotty had > one of those plates loaded up with broasted chicken and Mojo taters. To > wash it all down he had a pitcher of beer. So much for childhood heroes. I > heard that Channel 4 did him dirty though. They fired him and he wasn't > able to get another job. I did hear him doing commercials on one of the > radio stations shortly before he died a few years ago. > > When you go the OHS, look next to the elevators on the lowest floor. You > will see an old wooden horse on display. This is Woody. On the show, all > the kids that had a birthday on the day of the show got to ride on Woody. > He was rescued from the trash bin at Channel 4 to be placed in the museum. > > Gene > > > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! > http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! > > > > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! > http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! > >