1980: Burl Barer Consults KUJ

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   Jason Remington • January 15, 2023

   Giving out the address was common for newspapers. Life/people were different then. We now live in a crazy world– gated communities for the common folk.

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      T.K. • January 17, 2023

      I’ve heard of one person whose deceased mother’s home was burglarized after her address ran in a TNT obituary around 1980. Crime rings probably helped end the practice, at least in obituaries.

      The papers seemed to stop doing it without much fanfare. More ink was spilled on discontinuing Mrs./Miss/Ms. before women’s last names on later references in an article. That actually got explained in editor’s columns and was gone by the late ’80s.

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         Jason Remington • January 17, 2023

         If you remember the movie “Paper Moon”, Ryan O’Neal used addresses of the deceased published in the newspaper obituaries, in order to peddle his bibles to surviving family.

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   kjrol • February 3, 2021

   Burl seemed to be satirizing the Boss Jock of the mid-1960s, with a wink to the radio audience. It was fun to listen to him

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      Jason Remington • February 6, 2021

      I think you are spot on, kjrol.

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