EFREM & EDDIE IN 77 SUNSET STRIP

before the cool of Johnny Depp.......Kookie (with Connie)

Kool Cat Eddie, Kookie Kookson, was my car hop role model for "with it-ness".......and way uptown Efrem Zimbalist was my role model for mature sophisticate when I was a Jr. High School social rebel........I never missed an episode of 77 SUNSET STRIP; and Eddie's lingo ["I'm jazzed. They're already twistin' in L.A.! Let's split, grab our steady foxes, bag some jacked up hunk o' junk with a suicide knob 'n' ditch this bean wagon in El Segundo with some candy ass with bread!..."] was all the thing with bohemian 50's teens..... I even began to carry a comb, even though my thin, flyaway hair was hardly on par with Eddie's........and I was already mastering the subjunctive, seeing no pop future with my do.