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Happy 5th Birthday Off-Ramp - 8-20-11
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Episode 4600
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Happy 5th Birthday Off-Ramp - 8-20-11

The best of five years of Off-Ramp including: Tom Jones ... Heston Remembered at the DWP ... Movies at the Cemetery ... Dog Pee v Skunks ... Rabe as Arnie and Andy ...

Off-Ramp turns five years old this month. One of our heroes is Robbie Eisenberg, who died in 2003. He turned 101 in 1999, celebrating with a big cake at The Pantry, and was still selling zippers in downtown LA until he was 103.
Off-Ramp turns five years old this month. One of our heroes is Robbie Eisenberg, who died in 2003. He turned 101 in 1999, celebrating with a big cake at The Pantry, and was still selling zippers in downtown LA until he was 103.
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The best of five years of Off-Ramp including: Tom Jones ... Heston Remembered at the DWP ... Movies at the Cemetery ... Dog Pee v Skunks ... Rabe as Arnie and Andy ...

John talks with international music superstar Tom Jones about his album, "24 Hours," and about being one of the best pop singers ever...for 40 years.
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For ten years now, LA residents have been lining up to get into Hollywood Forever Cemetery. They aren't waiting to pay their respects, or visit a famous grave, but to see a classic movie under the moonlight - sometimes just a few feet from where the stars of the film are buried. Off-Ramp producer Kevin Ferguson talked about the 10- year anniversary with John Wyatt. Wyatt founded Cinespia, the group that organizes the cemetery screenings.
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Off-Ramp literary commentator Marc Haefele says Carey McWilliams is required reading for anyone who is serious about understanding Los Angeles.
Have skunk problems? John Rabe has a solution. Hint: they have four legs, a tail and go woof, woof!
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Andy Rooney tried, but he just doesn't like Christmas.
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Did you know firemen have to buy their own food for the firehouse? It's a fact John discovered a while ago at Super King in Cypress Park.
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Bob Kholos, who worked closely with the late Tom Bradley during and after his historic runs for Mayor of LA, was one of Off-Ramp's early important guests. He died October 12, 2010 at the age of 67. Here are the three segments we recorded with him, recounting Bradley's early days, the SLA shootout, and the political and racial landscape of Bradley's early years as Mayor.