It was the "Survivor" of its day, in terms of local ratings.
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He also hosted Detroit's iconic 1970s TV game show, "Bowling for Dollars," a program that's hard to imagine in today's flashy, high-speed world of reality competitions.įilmed at the Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, it features local contestants bowling for a modest cash prize in the range of a few hundred dollars. Essentially, it was a mass-market chat across the fence between listeners, mostly women, who shared recipes and queried each other for advice on things like recipes for cottage cheese pie and where to buy hard-to-find items in the era long before Amazon. WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) reported he had recently fallen at his home.Īllison was best-known as host of the radio show "Ask Your Neighbor," which began on WWJ in 1962. A cause of death wasn't revealed, but his health recently made his move to a nursing home necessary. I want you to pick a contemporary designer you like, and describe what the materials and color and trim would look like if they designed it.Allison, 87, died Wednesday afternoon, according to WWJ-AM (950). When I took a painting class in college, they had us pick a favorite painter and paint something in that person’s style.
So we wanted to push it, and have some more fun, have some more freedom, because you don’t want to just have another interior color or something. It wasn’t really done as a production car.
I know you’re having fun with this, but this was originally done for the New York Auto Show. I think I had some moon dust once when I was in college! Not even the Emilio Pucci edition, with the moon-dust finish? Maybe from the Cordoba, with the Corinthian leather. I don’t think there was much inspiration from those cars. But again, it was trim packages, where we changed much more on the car than that. I don’t remember the others, so I couldn’t really comment. I remember the Blass one because I talked about it today. This next one is multiple choice: Which was your favorite designer edition of the 1976 Lincoln Continental Mark IV: Bill Blass, Cartier, Emilio Pucci, or Givenchy? One of my roommates-I had this house in college, and one of my roommates actually had that car. It had these polyester, fake-denim seats. Part two: Given that the Brampton assembly line was once used by the now defunct American Motors Corporation (AMC) to build their universally derided Gremlin compact car, do you feel any special affinity, or did you seek any inspiration from, the classic 1972 Levi’s Edition of the AMC Gremlin?
Being a Jewish Detroiter, my people are from the west side, so the only time I was ever in Allen Park was when my mom was on the local game show Bowling for Dollars in the mid-1970s. _ Brett Berk:_ I read that you’re from Allen Park. Highlights from our conversation are below. (O.K., technically it’s actually produced in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.) Since this writer is possessed by the myriad ties between the automotive industry and art, politics, film, fashion, and fabulousness, I felt morally obligated to meet up with John in Manhattan’s West Village and talk about Poltrona Frau seat leather, Downriver Bowling alleys, and the relative merits of the various designer editions of the 1976 Lincoln Continental Mark IV. He’s making over another Detroit product, the gangster lean Chrysler 300. John has just joined what is, in our opinion, one of the most illustrious coteries in fashion history: he has leant his name and design skills to a special-edition vehicle. Varvatos’s connection to our mutual birthplace-the Motor City-that prompted this interview. But while we love leather dusters and cashmere henleys as much as any member of ZZ Top, it is Mr. He even purchased the site of New York’s seminally stinky Bowery rock cave CBGBs and turned it into his flagship store. And if the advertising campaigns for his eponymous label are any indication, he’s also interested in, and inspired by, the outré musicians of the 1970s and 1980s. John Varvatos is a men’s-wear designer with deep roots in honest American upscale fashion.
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