History Old Newspaper Kings Ads and Other Oddities Through The Years

[JETS GARAGE]

From 1966 - 1987 Butch Goring used the same two helmets (One home colors, one away colors) for his entire career. When he was traded, the team equipment manager spray painted the helmets the appropriate colors.

 

[Mr_Conie]

Anyone have

Forget cars, come watch clocks get cleaned. With Ivanans beating the S out of a coyote.

That was posted right outside of a carwash.

 

[jom]

What about Ron Grahame for a 1st(Ray Bourque)?

Certainly a real clunker there. However, I should point out that I can see what McGuire was thinking here (believe it or not). First of all the trade was made a good year before (summer of 78) just after Vachon signed with Detroit. He had played in 70 (that's right 70!!) game for the Kings the previous year (77-78) so the Kings badly needed goaltending because they certainly didn't expect to have anyone "in the system". Lessard was there but he was little known. Simmonds left so there was not even a back up. Grahame had a name in the WHA so that's kind of where this trade came from.

McGuire might not have know that the 79 draft was going to be so good due to the lowering of the draft age to 18 (due to Gretzky coming into he NHL with the Edmonton WHA merger). Mc Guire did later get another pick in the 1st round and got Jay Wells....pretty good pick if you ask me.

jom

 

[Cross Traffic]

March 16, 1973, the Kings are in Vancouver and lose 4-2, found this column by a Vancouver Providence writer that points out the differences between current coach Bob Pulford and previous coach Fred Glover:

Yikes, not sure Glover could motivate a team of mites, his career win percentage was .341, Pulford's is .520.

 

[jom]

March 16, 1973, the Kings are in Vancouver and lose 4-2, found this column by a Vancouver Providence writer that points out the differences between current coach Bob Pulford and previous coach Fred Glover:
....Yikes, not sure Glover could motivate a team of mites, his career win percentage was .341, Pulford's is .520.

Well written article there. You don't seem to get that very often these days.

jom

 

[Cross Traffic]

March 17, 1970, the moribund Kings come to the Olympia and at least kept it close in a 3-2 loss with goals by Cowboy Flett and Ross Lonsberry in front of 15,221. Note how they point out they have lighted and fenced parking next to the arena. The scars of the riots of 1967 can still be seen in google maps of the area around the former arena location today...

March 17, 1977 The moribund Red Wings come to the Forum and the Kings win 3-2 on goals by Gary Sargent, Gene Carr, and Don Kozak in front of 14,580 on Toyota Jersey Night, first 3,000 under 14 get a Kings jersey.

Also in the sports notes is that Jack Kent Cooke has signed an agreement to have selected home Lakers and Kings games televised by National Subscription Television in the fall. It would be telecast on KSBC 52 and branded as ON TV, it cost $18.95 a month (almost $95 a month in today's dollars) showing uncut movies, sporting events and concerts. My Dad picked up (along with several of his friends) pirate descramblers since ON used early analog scrambling tech. I remember going with Dad to buy the descrambler from a pretty nice part of Huntington Beach from a garage workshop, basically split the signal into the cable and the sound then played from a separate speaker.

Here is an ad for the service, the top part of the ad is a half sheared goat:

 

[Bill Hicks]

March 17, 1970, the moribund Kings come to the Olympia and at least kept it close in a 3-2 loss with goals by Cowboy Flett and Ross Lonsberry in front of 15,221. Note how they point out they have lighted and fenced parking next to the arena. The scars of the riots of 1967 can still be seen in google maps of the area around the former arena location today...

March 17, 1977 The moribund Red Wings come to the Forum and the Kings win 3-2 on goals by Gary Sargent, Gene Carr, and Don Kozak in front of 14,580 on Toyota Jersey Night, first 3,000 under 14 get a Kings jersey.

Also in the sports notes is that Jack Kent Cooke has signed an agreement to have selected home Lakers and Kings games televised by National Subscription Television in the fall. It would be telecast on KSBC 52 and branded as ON TV, it cost $18.95 a month (almost $95 a month in today's dollars) showing uncut movies, sporting events and concerts. My Dad picked up (along with several of his friends) pirate descramblers since ON used early analog scrambling tech. I remember going with Dad to buy the descrambler from a pretty nice part of Huntington Beach from a garage workshop, basically split the signal into the cable and the sound then played from a separate speaker.

Here is an ad for the service, the top part of the ad is a half sheared goat:

Wow. ON-TV. Saw my first nude woman by watching 'Halloween' at my friend's house. haha
That and Select-TV. Good times as a kid.

 

[jom]

The Triple Crown Line

On January 13, 1979, the Kings were well on their way to another ho-hum season (34-34-12, first round loss) when former head coach Bob Berry made what turned out to be a brilliant move,

I'm almost certain that game was in Detroit and on local TV. I was working in a pizza parlor in Fountain Valley and had the game on an old Black and White TV in the scullery. Dionne had a great game....which actually used to happen all of the time as Dionne loved to burn the Red Wings any time he could (see below).

March 17, 1970, the moribund Kings come to the Olympia and at least kept it close in a 3-2 loss with goals by Cowboy Flett and Ross Lonsberry in front of 15,221. Note how they point out they have lighted and fenced parking next to the arena. The scars of the riots of 1967 can still be seen in google maps of the area around the former arena location today...

When the Kings played their first game back in Detroit after the Kings had acquired Dionne (this would have been early in the 75-76 season) the crowd really gave Dionne a bad time...especially in the area behind the Kings bench. There was nearly a fight down by the bench when coach Pulford got hit with something (not sure) but the police in the area were involved. It was pretty wild....the Kings lost.

A couple of weeks later Detroit came to the Forum and the crowd here was just "electric" (you could tell it was a sell out by how the crowd sounded on the radio....something I always remember from those years). Dionne got a couple of goals in front of a very loud Forum crowd. Pretty exciting and this kind of started Dionne on his killer instinct against the Red Wings...he would just pour it on. Of course, the Wings were pretty bad in those years so it really wasn't all that difficult.

Oh...and I remember ONTV pretty well. By 1979 we took a subscription and I got to see what I think was probably the first home games I watched on TV. I mean between the time I really started following the Kings in 1974 and 1982 there wasn't one home game televised locally over free "over the air" TV. The first were the home games against Vancouver in the 82 playoffs after the Kings beat the Oilers...and those were delayed until 11pm. So only if you got ONTV could you see home games locally. Of course not until Prime Ticket started in 1984 or so (?) were you able to see Kings' home game...and you had to have cable.

jom

 

[Cross Traffic]

March 18, 1988 Future King Steve Weeks stops 32 of 35 shots in a Kings 5-3 loss, Jimmy Carson, Chris Kontos, and Bob Bourne get on the board for the Kings in front of 10,021 at the Pacific Coliseum, the Nucks had not won in 12 games. Bernie Nicholls started a five game suspension for trying to take off Ulf Samuelsson's head with his stick in Hartford on the 9th:

New coach Robbie Ftorek has a nice write up in the Vancouver Providence, saying he doesn't know what a "player's coach" is:

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[Cross Traffic]

March 19, 1981, the Kings take on the Pens, which ends up being a 4-4 tie in front of 9,758. Dionne had a goal and an assist along with Mike Murphy. Greg Terrion and Larry Murphy added a goal as well. They ended up one point closer to a team vacation to Hawaii that Jerry Buss promised if the team achieved 88 points.

 

[Cross Traffic]

March 20, 1976, The Kings host the juggernaut Canadiens, take a 4-1 lead at the end of the 2nd with goals by Tom Williams, Bob Murdoch, Mike Murphy, and Don Kozak. Scotty Bowman has his troops ready for a frantic 3rd that sees scores by Guy Lapointe and future King Murray Wilson. Rogie Vachon stops 31 of 34 to hand the Habs only their 10th loss of the season in front of a full house of 16,005. They would only lose 1 more game that season to finish 58-11-11.

 

[jom]

March 20, 1976, The Kings host the juggernaut Canadiens, take a 4-1 lead at the end of the 2nd with goals by Tom Williams, Bob Murdoch, Mike Murphy, and Don Kozak. Scotty Bowman has his troops ready for a frantic 3rd that sees scores by Guy Lapointe and future King Murray Wilson. Rogie Vachon stops 31 of 34 to hand the Habs only their 10th loss of the season in front of a full house of 16,005. They would only lose 1 more game that season to finish 58-11-11.

I was there...baby! The one thing I remember was how odd Steve Shutt's slapshots were because his backswing was very close to the body. From where I was sitting and him playing LW you could see him from the back. I do remember them getting the two goals in the 3rd. It made it a real tense ending.

That game wasn't nearly as wild as the earlier meeting here in January. The Kings beat them 6-3 and scored 3 goals about a minute and chased Dryden if you can believe it. Maybe you can find that article....listening to that game on the radio was nuts. It got so loud you couldn't hear Miller's call. The Kings really did play well against Montreal in those years. Can't say the same for the Flyers.

jom

PS: edited to add. There were a lot of future HOF'er in that game. Mostly Canadiens but still...Vachon, Dionne and Pulford for the Kings (I think). I should also mentioned that Montreal's record of 58-11-11 was amazing but still that team wasn't as good as the one the follow season where I think they only lost 8 games. Still the best team (relatively speaking) I've ever seen, IMO.

 

[Cross Traffic]

That game wasn't nearly as wild as the earlier meeting here in January. The Kings beat them 6-3 and scored 3 goals about a minute and chased Dryden if you can believe it. Maybe you can find that article....listening to that game on the radio was nuts. It got so loud you couldn't hear Miller's call. The Kings really did play well against Montreal in those years. Can't say the same for the Flyers.

7-3 win over Montreal on January 31, Ab Demarco led the scoring with 2 goals and 1 assist, with the scoring balanced on the scoresheet. Dryden was 11 of 17 that night, pulled for Bunny Larocque in the 3rd with chants of "We Want Dryden!" through the soldout crowd. First win against Montreal at the Forum in almost 5 years.

Looks like the blockbuster Espo/Vadnais for Park/Ratelle trade happened that day as well...

 

[forum gold]

7-3 win over Montreal on January 31, Ab Demarco led the scoring with 2 goals and 1 assist, with the scoring balanced on the scoresheet. Dryden was 11 of 17 that night, pulled for Bunny Larocque in the 3rd with chants of "We Want Dryden!" through the soldout crowd. First win against Montreal at the Forum in almost 5 years.

Looks like the blockbuster Espo/Vadnais for Park/Ratelle trade happened that day as well...

In the house for both of those games. Section 9 SSH until 79 when Buss kicked us out for Senate Seats.

 

[SirJW]

I grew up in NYC, the Park / Espo trade broke my heart and prepared me for a lifetime of this, (see Quick).

 

[jom]

Looks like the blockbuster Espo/Vadnais for Park/Ratelle trade happened that day as well...

Thanks for the articles. I can't see the Espo article too well but I could swear that trade happened in November (couple of months earlier).

jom

 

[PTDP]

Marcel's "clam shell" ala "1970-80s" car salesman hair cut, steals the show.

 

[Cross Traffic]

Thanks for the articles. I can't see the Espo article too well but I could swear that trade happened in November (couple of months earlier).

jom

It was 3 months earlier:

 

[Cross Traffic]

March 22, 1979: The Triple Crown Line provide all the scoring in a 3-3 tie with a 48 point Blues team in front of 9,533. Dionne with 3 assists, Taylor with 1 goal, 2 assists and Simmer with 2 goals and 1 assist. Ron Grahame made 16 of 19 saves (woof!) while Phil Myre probably got first star holding the Kings with 33 saves on 36 shots.

March 22, 1980, the Kings beat the Nordiques 4-1 in front of 10,635 with Dionne and Steve Jensen scoring a goal and an assist each. Jay Wells got into two scraps, one with Curt Brackenbury and another with Paul Baxter.

 

[jom]

Yeah, Boston took some heat but they ended up being the better team for it. They went to the finals in 77 and 78 because of that trade. They later stole Rick Middleton from the Rangers which helped as well. Boston had Montreal beat in 79 but blew it on a "too many men" penalty in game 7.

jom