{"id":38741,"date":"2013-09-10T06:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/go-see-cal.html"},"modified":"2013-09-10T06:17:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:17:33","slug":"go-see-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/10\/go-see-cal.html","title":{"rendered":"Go see Cal!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sorry to hear about Cal Worthington's passing. Well, to be honest, if I'd thought about it, I'd have guessed he was dead already. \u00a0Regardless, his "Go see Cal!" commercials were a staple on TV when I was growing in in LA — usually on the indie stations like 5 and 9 and 11 and 13. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I'd had no idea he was a decorated B-17 pilot during WWII (which he talks about more here:\u00a0Cal Worthington Talks About WW2 at the Aerospace Museum of California<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Some of his auto lot commericials (all featuring his "dog" Spot) can be see at\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/QOsLdT4slsk<\/a> .<\/p>\n

NY Times obit:\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/w90lXo<\/a><\/p>\n

(h\/t Mary)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cal Worthington dies at 92; car dealer known for wacky ‘dog Spot’ ads<\/a>
\n Cal Worthington, whose wacky TV pitches with his ‘dog Spot’ made him a cult celebrity, has died at 92.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry to hear about Cal Worthington's passing. Well, to be honest, if I'd thought about it, I'd have guessed he was dead already. \u00a0Regardless, his "Go see Cal!" commercials were a staple on TV when I was growing in in LA — usually on the indie stations like 5 and 9 and 11 and 13. … Continue reading “Go see Cal!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1518,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/18\/those_mit_zanie.html","url_meta":{"origin":38741,"position":0},"title":"Those MIT zanies","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Dec-01 9:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"MIT and Cal Tech seem to compete as two who can do the best pranks, usually technological (duh). 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