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2022-01-23 at 8:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Phyllis Diller lived in Webster Groves "The Park" area (high faluting fancy rich folks with big houses and even bigger yards full of doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc.) just a few blocks from me.
Phyllis Diller
Born Phyllis Ada Driver, she combined wild costumes, untamed hair and a raucous laugh with self-deprecating monologues to create one of comedy’s most popular characters. A 1955 club booking skyrocketed her to success: scheduled for two weeks, she stayed 89. After moving to Webster Groves in 1961, Diller honed her act in St. Louis clubs such as Gaslight Square’s Crystal Palace. Mid-1960s television routines featuring “Fang,” her imaginary husband, brought national acclaim. In addition to her television, film and stage work, Phyllis Diller made five records, wrote four best-selling books and performed on piano with over 100 symphony orchestras.
I met her a few times. She went to our church. I knew she was from Ohio but not St Louise.
She lived with her husband who was station at Alameda NAS. she was told by friends to do comedy because she was so funny. there might be variations of how she got started but I was told she started doing standup on open mic nights at some of the known places like the Purple Onion and other clubs in North Beach San Francisco. I'm sure she owned a big ass house in her home area of St Louis as well. but the story I got was she started in SF.
as a kid, the first time I saw her we were at a restaurant and she started laughing in the bar on the other side of the building. her laugh wasn't just a stage trope. she really laughed that way. we got to run over and peak into the bar area and sure enough she was sitting with friends at a table. this was maybe 1973-74
My point wasn't to drop names, it was to say "This doesn't make me famous"
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2022-01-23 at 9:01 PM UTCAlso she had a radio show. this is why I was joking about Lorne Michaels. He did writing for Phyllis Diller when she had her Radio Show broadcast out of Oakland area.
So I figured he probably lived in the area as well for a time. unless he was writing from Canada. But I had the feeling he was a writer and producer for the radio show.
Maybe I misread something .
Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) (born Phyllis Ada Driver) has some Oakland connections.
In the late 1940s, she and her husband moved to Alameda with 5 children. With her husband unemployed, she was turned down for a job as a music librarian at the Oakland Tribune. She ended up writing a shopping column for the San Leandro News-Observer. 1
Later she worked at Kahn's Department Store writing ad copy. Diller would go from department to department collecting info, and her infectious laughter could be heard through the building.
With encouragement from her fellow employees at Kahn's and her husband, she tried stand-up comedy at the Purple Onion in San Francisco in March, 1955. A short stint turned into a long one, and the rest, as they say, was history.
Diller also spent some time writing ad copy for radio station KROW. -
2022-01-23 at 9:07 PM UTCAnd I'm not challenging your story, but it says she was originally from Lima Ohio
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2005/04/07/from-alameda-housewife-to-superstar-comic-phyllis-diller-tells-all-in-lampshade/
Originally from Lima, Ohio, Diller ended up in Alameda in the late 1940s with five kids and an unemployed husband.
“Alameda was a lovely place to live,” she says. “It was a little town then, and I remember our house in the Fernside district: a split-level California stucco with rhododendron bushes that just bloomed and bloomed.”
But all was not happy in the lovely little town.
“We were broke, broke, broke,” Diller recalls. “We decided I had to work.”
She believed she could have a fabulous life, and soon, she was across the Bay doing more ad writing for KSFO radio and slowly realizing that she was an exceptionally funny person. Almost by accident — and with more than a little push from husband Sherwood — Diller found herself in the center of San Francisco’s bustling North Beach cultural scene.
“Boy, was that a hot time,” Diller says. “Hell, I didn’t know what I was doing. I just fell into it. I mean, my God, City Lights bookstore with Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg. Mort Sahl was blazing a trail of political humor. Carol Doda with her (act); Johnny Mathis with his voice. The Kingston Trio. The Limeliters. Dave Brubeck. It was hot, hot, and it was all just beginning.”
anyways. She lived all over the country. she ended up first at Alameda NAS. She said she hated living there because her friends husbands lived in the bigger Officer Houses. while she had to live in a tiny mini apartment on base.
then they moved from the west side to the east side of the town. we lived in a townhouse near Broadway just were fern side district starts. its pretty nice. little houses but they're multi million dollar homes now. they look like fairytale cottages. -
2022-01-24 at 7:03 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Phyllis Diller
Born Phyllis Ada Driver, she combined wild costumes, untamed hair and a raucous laugh with self-deprecating monologues to create one of comedy’s most popular characters. A 1955 club booking skyrocketed her to success: scheduled for two weeks, she stayed 89. After moving to Webster Groves in 1961, Diller honed her act in St. Louis clubs such as Gaslight Square’s Crystal Palace. Mid-1960s television routines featuring “Fang,” her imaginary husband, brought national acclaim. In addition to her television, film and stage work, Phyllis Diller made five records, wrote four best-selling books and performed on piano with over 100 symphony orchestras.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Stale Cracker. Lose your control V function FFS. -
2022-01-24 at 7:37 AM UTCHe prolly doesn't even know how to ctrl c or ctrl v...he probably right clicks with his ergonomic mouse with the ball thing
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2022-01-24 at 2:49 PM UTCEggs and beef
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2022-01-24 at 4:58 PM UTCIf you click through this, you will find a picture of Phyllis Diller's Webster Groves Home:
https://www.stlmag.com/The-St-Louis-Homes-of-Harry-Caray-William-S-Burroughs-Chuck-Berry-Vincent-Price-Phyllis-Diller-and-Miles-Davis/ -
2022-01-24 at 5:02 PM UTCA new microwave oven, my 18yr old one died on Saturday. RIP.
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2022-01-24 at 5:04 PM UTCJiggles must have fed his old one some of his stew.
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2022-01-24 at 11:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Here's a house from "Webster Park":
So, if you realize she started actually in the 40s trying out at open mic night at the infamous Purple Onion Club (That only recently closed its doors around 2016) you would know she probably went home after her husband got out of the military and moved back to St Louise.
I'm not saying she didn't live there. But often people move around or own multiple homes. I just said she lived in my home town and a lot of famous people lived there for much of their lives or were even born and raised there. it's not a small town now. It's pushing 100k because they closed the NAS station which was about 1/3rd of the island (most of it landfilled) and handed over to the city. they need a new bridge or tube because it's an Island next to Oakland's Port. LOL the fucking traffic during rush hour is a nightmare.
anywho.. yes, it's a nice house. there are houses like that in one of the districts of Alameda. I think it's called the Gold Coast -
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2022-01-27 at 1:49 AM UTC
Got this color changing bulb .. I think it’ll be a vibe ..
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2022-01-27 at 1:50 AM UTCa slave
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2022-01-27 at 1:54 AM UTCI’ll post a video after I finish smoking this herb 🌿... says batteries included so should be able to just get it goin..
