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Remember 'Our Gang?' - Whatever happened to these people? (interesting . . . and "sad")
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| MAY 20, 2005
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Posted on 05/20/2005 7:50:48 PM PDT by CHARLITE
"OUR GANG"
Whatever happened to these people?
Well, here is is.....the "rest of the story" of Our Gang/center>
ALFALFA
Carl Switzer was shot to death at age 31.
CHUBBY
300-pound Norman Chaney died at age 22 following an operation.
BUCKWHEAT
William Thomas died at age 49 of a heart attack.
DARLA HOOD
The Our Gang leading lady contracted hepatitis and died at age 47.
BRISBANE
Kendall McCormas, known as Breezy Brisbane, committed suicide at age 64.
MICKEY DANIELS
He died of liver disease at 55.
STYMIE
Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. He died of a stroke at age 56.
SCOTTY BECKETT
He died at age 38 following a brutal beating.
WHEEZER
Robert Hutchins was killed in an airplane accident at age 19.
PETE THE PUP
He was poisoned by an unknown assailant.
BUTCH
Currently lives in California......
............and SPANKY?....
a used car salesman, recently died in Texas.
and........................
Robert Blake was just acquitted of murdering his wife.
You didn't know that was Robert Blake (in the middle, being hauled away by the policeman!). Did you? Robert Blake, Born Mickey Gubitosi was indeed on Our Gang.
Now you know a bit of the History of the OUR GANG group.
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: alfalfa; brisbane; buckwheat; butch; chubby; iseenitinanemail; littlerascals; ourgang; pete; stymie; thepup; urbanlegend; wheezer
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To: CHARLITE
There's a few good 'Little Rascals' sites, and I mainly cut-and-pasted.
Fun stuff. I LOVED the 'Our Gang' (AKA 'Little Rascals') shorts when I was growing up.
To: CHARLITE
Nobody mentioned "Froggy"
Froggy -- William Robert Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident at
age 16. Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident near Huntington Beach, CA in the early 1950s.
Wheezer was killed at Merced AAC field when my father was stationed there btw.
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posted on
05/20/2005 9:48:55 PM PDT
by
L`enn
To: L`enn
I'm not superstitious, but really.........one has to wonder if some kind of a spooky jinx was placed on all of these people!
Char (:
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posted on
05/20/2005 10:12:21 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
(Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing, with Billery in tow. on a leash.........)
To: CHARLITE
I met Spanky (George McFarland) before he died. His sister still lives in my hometown, (a small Dallas suburb) and was once on City Council.
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posted on
05/20/2005 10:17:56 PM PDT
by
SerpentDove
(Qwertyuiop!)
To: CHARLITE
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posted on
05/20/2005 10:23:46 PM PDT
by
decal
(Where were YOU when AndyScam broke?)
To: SerpentDove
Nice memory for you!
And now...........can you tell me what this means?
"Qwertyuiop!"
Sounds like a canary trapped in a doorjam!
Char
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posted on
05/20/2005 10:24:18 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
(Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing, with Billery in tow. on a leash.........)
To: CHARLITE
I like to change my tagline every now and then, when it gets stale.
I couldn't think of anything, and I was in a hurry to go somewhere, so I just typed the first few letters on the top alphabet line on my keyboard.
Not that it relates to this thread, but I just did this, too:
![](http://www.neatostudio.com/saddambob.jpg)
Have a lovely morning!
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posted on
05/20/2005 10:56:22 PM PDT
by
SerpentDove
(Qwertyuiop!)
To: SerpentDove
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posted on
05/20/2005 10:58:57 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
(Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing, with Billery in tow. on a leash.........)
To: CHARLITE
Compare your "data" against
Snopes.
To: CHARLITE
300-pound Norman Chaney died at age 22 following an operation Died at age 18, not 22. (b. 1918, d. 1936)
Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. He died of a stroke at age 56.
Matthew Beard (not Bear). He went sober and went back into acting. He can be seen in a few episodes of Sanford and Son.
He was poisoned by an unknown assailant.
There were several Pete's.
You didn't know that was Robert Blake (in the middle, being hauled away by the policeman!). Did you? Robert Blake, Born Mickey Gubitosi was indeed on Our Gang.
Speaking as an Our Gang fan, No S$%^ Sherlock.
To: Old Sarge
Hal Roach lived to be 100 (and was a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno).
He outlived most of his discoveries (Our Gang and The Little Rascals, as well as Laurel and Hardy).
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posted on
05/21/2005 9:44:39 AM PDT
by
weegee
("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
To: CHARLITE
![](http://www.goldenstateautographs.com/photographs/images/D/thumb/deborbadorothy.jpg)
I met Dorothy De Borba a few years ago (Echo), probably around 2000.
This is not my photo, but here she is with Porky:
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posted on
05/21/2005 9:50:17 AM PDT
by
weegee
("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
To: tahotdog
OMG that is sooooo funnny!
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posted on
05/21/2005 9:52:27 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
To: Lancey Howard
I was baptized by Pastor Smith(Waldo) when i was 12.
He was my pastor and family friend for many years, and went to school with his son Donald.
We would watch his private collection of Our Gang movies
on an occational Saturday night.
Darwood K. Smith was an incredible man
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:32:30 PM PDT
by
otay4u
(Waldo)
To: otay4u
Thanks for your kind reply.
I grew up watching the ‘Our Gang’ shorts (during the ‘60s). They were on TV every Sunday when we got home from church.
To: CHARLITE
Pics won’t show up and I can’t get the related website’s links to open at that website.
Can you offer a link that will work?
Would love to see the pics.
Blessings,
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posted on
04/14/2008 10:06:49 PM PDT
by
Quix
(GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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