[GreenHornet]

“Train leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cu-ca-monga!”

In addition to Rochester, Don Wilson, and Dennis Day, he had great supporting players around him such as Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson, and Benny Rubin.

I remember a Christmas episode where Mel Blanc played a clerk in a department store where Jack was shopping. Jack Benny bought a wallet as a gift for Don Wilson, which Mel Blanc gift wrapped for him. Benny kept bringing the wallet back to Mel Blanc to be re-wrapped, with Blanc becoming more and more upset each time. Benny had to turn away from the camera to keep the audience from seeing how he was cracking up because of the way Mel Blanc was carrying on.

[Scoutmaster]

Mel Blanc's "Anaheim, Azusa and Cu-ca-monga!" lived on in Warner Brothers cartoons, Johnny Carson skits (one of his car salesman skits gave directions via AA&C, and Carson character Floyd R. Turbo was from Cucamonga), and Jan & Dean's 'Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga Book Review, Sewing Circle, and Timing Association.'

Personally, I spent a month in Rancho Cucamonga one weekend.

[llevrok]

and arguably the greatest sketch writers and prop men ever.

[lowbridge]

Christmas episode with mel blanc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhW1GjVxVUA

And the scene alone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Dw3vvXGUg

[Overtaxed]

There were several Christmas episodes with Mel Blanc...on radio anyway. One year he was buying shoelaces for Don (couldn’t decide between metal tips or plastic tips). Another year it was gopher traps (lethal or non?)

And Mel as his violin teacher.....

https://archive.org/details/JackBenny1