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The full route was added to the California Freeway and Expressway System in 1959. [2] By the 1960s, community opposition had reduced it to what is effectively a minor spur of I-405 to Marina Del Rey [9] (derisively dubbed the "Slauson Cutoff" by comedian Johnny Carson).
Slauson Ave & Slauson/I-110 Metro J Line Station. Slauson Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare traversing the central part of Los Angeles County, California.It was named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J. S. Slauson.
Johnny Carson found the town's lack of television interesting, and invited the entire town's population (about 50 people at the time) to attend the taping of the March 25, 1977 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He talked to 5 different townspeople about what it was like and whether they missed having television.
For Carson fans, the biographical details will be familiar — many can be found in the very fine 2012 “American Masters” documentary “Johnny Carson: King of Late Night,” in which Zehme ...
Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the product at grocery stores across the country in 1973, nearly a half-century ...
No. Original release date Guest(s) Musical/entertainment guest(s) 2144: February 1, 1971 (): Gig Young, Diane Keaton, Patsy Kelly, Carol Channing: Buddy Rich: 2145: February 2, 1971 ()
On May 13th, 1994, beloved talk show host Johnny Carson made his last TV appearance ever on his friend David Letterman's "The Late Show." The last episode of Carson's "The Tonight Show" had aired ...
Another freeway routine in the same theme centered on the "Slauson Cutoff", a slang term Carson popularized to describe the truncated Marina Freeway (which ended abruptly at Slauson Avenue in Culver City). Art Fern would advise drivers to take a series of freeways until they reached the Slauson Cutoff, and would then advise them to "Get out of ...