how to explain the 70s: telly savalas "WHILE smoking a cigeratte"

[orleans]

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[dchill]

1. Would have been better with a Kojak lollipop. 🍭

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Lots of TV shows had actors smoking.

That changed rather quickly after the 1964 Surgeon General's Report.

Here's one article on that topic: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/08/Dr-Kildare-and-Dr-Gillespie-were-smokers/4816431841600/

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Everybody smoked back then! Even on airplanes! And ashtrays were everywhere!

Even in the backseat armrest of the family station wagon!

[JoseBalow]

4. I remember ashtrays on some elevators

Elevators!

[jmowreader]

5. My company owns an old office building in downtown CDA, ID...

Part of it is used for our advertising department, we rent out the rest. The elevator in it still has an ashtray.

[Emile]

12. I remember smoking on airplanes.

[JoseBalow]

13. *BING* - The "No Smoking" sign would light up

I once took a 12-hour international flight and asked for the "non-smoking" section. My seat was in the first row directly behind the smoking section. That was a looooong flight!

[Submariner]

15. And I could only get about 6 cigarette

butts the ashtray before needing the stewardess to empty it.

It was so convenient back then. We could carry our cigarettes in one pocket, and a loaded handgun in the other pocket, legally.

[GReedDiamond]

6. I moved to Hollywood CA in 1976...

...one day in 1977 or so I was driving north in the left lane on Vine Street approaching Yucca, intending to keep going north past Yucca.

Suddenly, some asshole in a white Rolls Royce turned left from the right lane, right in front of me.

I almost t-boned the fucker.

I got a real good look at him.

It was Telly.

He was the first celebrity I didn't meet.

[orleans]

8. i'm glad you didn't meet him *that* day--if you had it would've been after the accident nt

[GReedDiamond]

9. I have met quite a few celebs/famous folk...

...but none by running into them with a car.

[ReRe]

7. Smoking a cigarette aside..

I loved Telly Savalas in the '70s, though I never met him.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Whut 😮

[Emile]

11. Bald is beautiful.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Shatner did it better.