and a shoutout to the now deceased Office Joe Bolton in NYC, who did the same thing over the years in NYC and has been deceased a while now.
Office Joe introducing the Three Stooges, and the Little Rascals and other shows.
from wiki-
Joe Bolton (September 8, 1910 – August 13, 1986) was the host of the WPIX show "The Clubhouse Gang" and "The Three Stooges Funhouse" as Officer Joe Bolton.[1] Bolton was also the Police Chief host of "The Dick Tracy Show".
Bolton was born in Flushing, New York to Florence Youngling and Joseph Reeves Bolton II.[2] By 1920, his parents were living in Manhattan where his father was a sales manager for hotel supplies.[3]
He started his broadcast career in 1927 as a staff announcer for WOR in Newark, New Jersey. He was the announcer for DuMont Television Network's talent show Doorway to Fame in 1947, but he left DuMont for WPIX on May 15, 1948 to be a news announcer and weatherman
On January 17, 1955, he appeared as "Officer Joe" and hosted The Clubhouse Gang, and showed the Little Rascals. WPIX lost the rights to The Little Rascals, and in September 1958, he switched to hosting The Three Stooges Funhouse. This program aired on weekdays at 5:30 pm. He showed Three Stooges shorts until May 7, 1970. At one time, he showed Dick Tracy cartoons as "Police Chief Joe".[4]
Bolton also acted in The Outlaws Is Coming (1965), the last feature film by The Three Stooges. He and eight other hosts of local television shows for children were cast as villains. (More information about Bolton's performance in The Outlaws is Coming can be found in "The NYC Kids Shows Round Up" section of TV Party.Com.)
Bolton retired in 1975 to Santa Monica, California, and died in 1986 at Santa Monica Hospital of a heart attack.[1][2]
Bolton has two children: a daughter, Catherine Bolton of Manhattan, and a son, Joseph Reeves Bolton IV of Port Salerno, Florida
Do they have hosts like these anymore for today's kids?
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