In addition, in the 1970s, Temple City was home to Pete & Jake's Hot Rod Repair, noted for custom cars, such as The California Kid.

After finishing second in the league in batting in 1977 to Twins teammate Rod Carew, Bostock became one of baseball's earliest big-money free agents, and signed with the California Angels, owned by Gene Autry.

As documented in W. C. Fields and Me ( the memoir of Carlotta Monti, published in 1971 and made into a 1976 film of the same name starring Rod Steiger ), he died at Las Encinas Sanatorium, Pasadena, California, a bungalow-type sanitarium where, as he lay in bed dying, his longtime and final love, Carlotta Monti, went outside and turned the hose onto the roof, so as to allow Fields to hear for one last time his favorite sound — the sound of falling rain.

" Many of the older cars are still raced today in the NHRA Heritage Hot Rod Racing Series, including the National Hot Rod Reunion and the California Hot Rod Reunion.

One of the next two, the last Winternationals test cars, was prepared by Bill Stroppe in Long Beach, California, for Les Ritchey ; it was featured in the July 1963 issue of Hot Rod.

He continued to start at the University of Southern California under coach Rod Dedeaux, but often exhibited control problems.

Drummer David Uosikkinen, having moved to San Diego, California, launched an independent record label, Moskeeto Records, while also working as a drummer for various artists including Patty Smyth, Cyndi Lauper, Rod Stewart and Alice Cooper.

The annual California Hot Rod Reunion and National Hot Rod Reunion are held to honor pioneers in the sport.

He attended the University of Southern California from 1964-where he played for Rod Dedeaux, and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 22nd round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft.

After being contacted by iTunes and K-tel records in California, Tony Williams re-formed Stealers Wheel in Blackpool in 2008 with two other original band members, Rod Coombes and Paul Pilnick, together with locally based musician and songwriter Tony Mitchell.

Born in in Pendleton, Oregon, Kingman was drafted by the California Angels out of high school in the second round of the 1967 Major League Baseball Draft, and by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round of the 1968 draft, but chose, instead, to attend the University of Southern California ( USC ) to play college baseball for the USC Trojans under coach Rod Dedeaux.

Smith reached out to the then-Los Angeles Dodgers owner, Peter O ' Malley, and University of Southern California head baseball coach and subsequent College Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Rod Dedeaux.

The song was an answer to the 1951 song Hot Rod Race by Arkie Silbey referring to the same stretch of road in central California.

Currently the Green Monster Number 5 is touring in the Midwest and California, and will be at the Bakersfield Hot Rod Reunion in October 2011.

There is significant evidence indicating that import drag racing first started in Southern California in the mid-1960s, with Volkswagen Beetles, sit-up-and-beg Ford Populars and Austin A40 Devons: Documentation of quarter-mile passes were published in Hot Rod Magazine as early as August 1965.

Fairly played varsity baseball for Rod Dedeaux at the University of Southern California (), and he made the most of it.

Marquee outside the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Texas, promoting the September 1, 2011 appearance of Brian Stokes Mitchell in concert. He has also done voice-overs for animation including Animaniacs, Capitol Critters, Tiny Toon Adventures, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Kid ' n Play, The New Kids on the Block, Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, Gravedale High, Potsworth & Co., Captain Planet and the Planeteers, The Tom and Jerry Kids Show, Yo Yogi !, Fantastic Max, Pound Puppies, The Addams Family, California Raisins, The Angry Beavers, James Bond Jr., Batman: The Animated Series, Paddington Bear, Pinky and the Brain, Defenders of Dynatron City, The Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats, Droopy, Master Detective, Denver, the Last Dinosaur, Mighty Max, Don Coyote & Sancho Panda and the two Flintstones animated movies Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby and I Yabba-Dabba Do !.

There are countless brush artists who carry on the tradition, not only in the US but across the globe — The Doc in Compton, Preacher ( Peter McDermott ) in San Antonio Texas, Steve Kafkain Arizona, Alton Gillespie in Fort Worth, Texas, Victor in Nebraska, Morkel Snorkel in Amherst, Alan Johnson Blairstown, New Jersey, Cliff Anderson Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gator in Tennessee, One Arm Bandit in New England, Anthony White in Florida, SCORCH ( Lee Daniel ) in Central California / Oklahoma, MWM from Hot Rod Surf in San Diego, KONG in San Diego, Brando in Chicago, Tommy " Itchy " Otis in Los Angeles, Von Hot Rod, and Herb Martinez to name a few of the US stripers.

Rod Piazza ( born December 18, 1947, Riverside, California ) is an American blues harmonica player and singer.

The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto — former Texas Instruments senior managers.

A former British MP and Royal Marine, Rod Richards, said that such nicknames were common amongst military comrades, stating " in the Armed Forces people often used to call me Taffy.

The film, written by Rod Serling, costarred Fredric March as the President and Ava Gardner as a former flame of Lancaster's, was nominated for two Oscars.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Then-Price Is Right announcer Rod Roddy served as the announcer for the week and former Let's Make a Deal model Carol Merrill presented the Secret Square and bonus round prizes.

This sale has become linked to the corruption charges leading to the December 9, 2008, arrest of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

The season ended up being the last for long-time radio and former TV announcer Hot Rod Hundley, who announced his retirement after being with the Jazz for their entire history ( 35 years ).

* Rod Stewart, singer and former frontman with The Faces, lived on Broad Walk

* 30 Rod Smart ( Western Kentucky )-" He Hate Me " became the first former XFL player to appear in a Super Bowl: Super Bowl XXXVIII for the Panthers.

* Rod Paige, former U. S. Secretary of Education

A former Mercury / Polygram recording artist and composer of songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Western Flyer, Clinton Gregory, Rod Stewart, Cledus T Judd, George Jones and others.

The new lineup consisted of Slash, Griparic, singer Rod Jackson, guitarist Ryan Roxie and drummer Matt Laug ( Roxie and Laug were both former members of Alice Cooper's solo band ).

* Rod Liddle, former BBC news editor

After Small Faces split, Lane, Jones and McLagan floundered briefly before joining forces with former members of the Jeff Beck Group, singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood.

* Rod Nazario Boxing Gym ( formerly Wild Card Boxing Gym )-Manny Pacquiao's former practice home, President's Avenue, BF Homes

Rod Love, former chief of staff to Ralph Klein, suggested that the Greens could potentially cut into the NDP's support.

The snake on the Rod of Asclepius is the symbol of medicine and symbolises the former health spa in Holmestrand that existed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

* Rod Carew ( born 1945 ), former professional baseball player.

Especially between players such as Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, former WSC players and Kim Hughes who stuck with the official side.

The band members at the time were also threatened with lawsuits by former members Rod Latter and Howard Pickup, who objected to the band continuing to use the Adverts name without them.

( 1957 ), written by Arthur Hailey ( who also penned the 1968 novel Airport ) about an airplane crew that succumbs to food poisoning ; and The Doomsday Flight ( 1966 ), written by Rod Serling and starring Edmond O ' Brien as a disgruntled aerospace engineer who plants a barometric pressure bomb on an airliner built by his former employer set to explode when the airliner descends for landing.

Rodney George " Rod " Laver MBE ( born 9 August 1938 ) is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles.

On June 13, 2011, the Bobcats made some moves to their front office by hiring former Portland Trail Blazers general manager Rich Cho to the same position and promoting Rod Higgins to President of Basketball Operations.

* Rod Blagojevich ( D ), governor from 2003 to 2009, and Ryan's successor, was impeached and removed from office by the Illinois General Assembly in a unanimous vote in January 2009 after being tied to multiple " pay to play " schemes, including attempting to sell the former Senate seat of recently elected President Barack Obama ..