GARY OWENS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/09/1979 - HFSID 270307

GARY OWENS
In 1979, Owens signed this letter thanking Phyllis Diller for appearing on his radio show at Los Angeles' KMPC
Typed letter signed: "Gary Owens", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, July 9, 1979. On letterhead of "The Gary Owens Building". Addressed to actress/comedienne Phyllis Diller. In full: "Many thanks for being so great on the 'Airwatch' broadcast on my show. Of course, you're always great ... so what the heck! Best krelbs". This letterhead is an inside joke: 5858 Sunset Boulevard actually housed radio station KMPC, owned at the time by Gene Autry. Gary Owens was a popular radio personality at KMPC from 1962 to 1981 and at other Los Angeles stations before and since. (In 2003, joined KLAC radio.) Airwatch was KMPC's traffic report. Phyllis Diller reporting traffic on the L.A. freeways must have been something to hear. Owens, (1936-2015), is best known as the announcer "from beautiful downtown Burbank" of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. But you might also know him as the voice of the title characters from the 1965 cartoon Roger Ramjet and the 1966 cartoon Space Ghost, the voice of Powdered Toast Man from Ren & Stimpy. Owens got his start in radio in 1959 before joining the 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. shift at Los Angeles' KMPC in 1962, a job that he would hold for two decades. His rich baritone voice has graced over 30,000 commercials, numerous cartoons and even the fourth and sixth episodes of the Space Quest computer game series. Fine condition.