Comments on: Johnny Rabbitt Day – March 13, 1966

By: Van Riehl

Van Riehl — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:33:36 +0000

Mike Smith and The Runaways played at that dance

By: Minh Cherrington

Minh Cherrington — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:52:52 +0000

Hey, i came across your page on youtube and i think it’s awesome!

By: Bruce Welker

Bruce Welker — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:25:18 +0000

I remember the Johnny Rabbitt Show at the Arena Building very well. He had a maroon tux and a top-hat with rabbit ears sticking out the top. I believe Fred Horrell and the Flames played the show…not sure who else was on stage. I remember a big crowd, though, and Johnny was late arriving.

By: Lyndel Revelle

Lyndel Revelle — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:05:17 +0000

Yes!!! A great point about one of the greatest and well known names to get Musclecars. Ihave a color picture of Mr. Norm’s Funny Car in a pictorial magazine (ifI remember right, I’ll have to make sure) but I do remember the lead in to different drag racing tracks i.e. Sunday at world famous St Louis International Raceway and some from Alton Illinois. I did get to see some famous cars at St. Louis International Raceway i.e. The Ramchargers, White bear Dodge,Don Garlits, Mickey thompson, The Mongoose and The Snake, Dyno Don Nicholson, grumpy Jenkins etc… But getting back to Greg saying he wanted to always own a HEMI. I used to street race bak in the early 70′s to 77 and mostly we saw Chevrolets here on the street and some Mopars mostly 383′s and 440′s but to the best of my knowledge there was only one HEMI Roadrunner in cape.
I was supposed to be a black Roadrunner (I think) and the owner was aguy by the last name of Pealock. I never saw the car but I heard it was FAST. We did have some fast Big Block Chevy’s too. A 68 Vette 427-435 HP, Charlie haupt had a 66 396-425 HP Vette, Davidhaupt had a 55 Chevy with a Big block 427 Chevy with a Tunnel Ram and some others. we raced when gas was cheap and performancewas high. There was a lotofcars I dreamed of owning but nevergot the chance. I remembergoing to the chevrolet dealership in cape and seing the 68 Vette I mentioned earlier and I asked the salesman howmuch it cost and he told me it cost 5400.00 dollars. I should’ve bought one. Those are some great memories for me and I always look forward to your column. One more thing and this is a story I believe happened in cape. Someof us will remember a old TV show called Route 66 and I believe their was a story in the Missourian about when the production crew for Route 66 came through Cape and I believe their was a story about it. You’ll have to check butRoute 66 was only on for 2 years but if I remember rightthey had a picture of them hauling the “Corvette that Martin milner and George Maharris used in the show. I hope i’m not wrong about this butmaybe you can check into it. Keep the good memories rollin’!!!

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:08:14 +0000

Mr. Spokesrider, sir,

When I was a street photographer, I wore Redwing work boots. They had several advantages:
you could work a fire, walk through water, step on nails, do just about anything and nothing would hurt them or your feet.

They also came up high enough that it didn’t matter what kind of socks you wore or even whether they matched.

Now that I’m retired, my socks are white. I am NOT so retired that I’ve taken to wearing a white belt and white shoes and mounting a compass on my dashboard.

(True confession time: I guess my walking shoes (they’re sold as running shoes, but I don’t run unless someone is chasing me) are white and I have a GPS on my dash. Maybe that’s enough to put me on the slippery slope.)

By: The Spokesrider

The Spokesrider — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:52:36 +0000

I used to have socks like those guys are wearing. Some years later, I don’t remember how much later, I had to be told they were not suitable attire.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:24:03 +0000

Happy belated birthday, Tim.

Do you remember if The Missourian covered it? I’ve looked through a few editions and haven’t found anything. That’s not unusual, though, because Youth Page news frequently lagged behind because a lot of it was written by high school correspondents.

By: Tim Pensel

Tim Pensel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:17:44 +0000

Johnny Rabbitt Day – March 13, 1966 did happen at the Arena Building – I was there and that was my birthday.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:32 +0000

Cape Central had about 1,200 students, if I remember right. SEMO had a “laboratory” school for teaching teaching. I’m not sure how many students Notre Dame, the Catholic school, had, but I’m guessing several hundred. Jackson was only seven miles away, so we probably picked up a few kids from there.

I’ll have to do some more research to see how many signers they really got.

Yeah, yeah, I can hear you now: you’re going to want to know if 1,000 Cape students could WRITE.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:48:06 +0000

You can see the original picture in The Missourian here.(You'll have to zoom out. The Teen Town pic is at the bottom right.)There's another picture on that newspaper page that'll be showing up here shortly.