Photos of this eccentric LA resident, a well known local "character" throughout the 70s and the 90s, were posted on a group I'm on, and I found several blog entries about her, including this one:

https://antebellumgallery.blogspot.com/2016/09/suzan-strauss-rip.html?zx=329c67ee24ed43a6

It mentions that she had no electricity in her house and lived only by candlelight. Other oddities were the plastic kids' furniture with which she filled the rooms and the fact that she lived off baby food and canned goods, according to a friend. She made her own clothes out of dyed burlap fabrics.

Unusual...

G.

I don't recall the character at all. Was he in more than one episode?

Lela was tough because back then--and I think still today--women who were "nice" did not get anywhere in a male dominated industry. Interesting interview with Lela on y.t., or it was there a few years back.

G.

I'm so glad Mrs Johnson appeared in a couple of episodes of the 1995 storyline. She was seen so seldom in any of the episodes in 1970. I think at that point, Clarice had found more regular work on another soap, but I'm not sure about that.

Good photo!

G.

The new theme sounds intriguing. I'm sure however there are enough examples of MUST on DS to last perhaps 2 years, not just one. It was that kind of show. You will be COMPELLED to say you MUST!

Today's shot is the prelude to one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. When Dr. Lang makes his dramatic statement to Julia, it looks as if Addison Powell is struggling not to crack up--but the weird look in his eyes actually lends credence to this doctor's truly "bizarre" concept of medicine.

Of course, just half a year or so earlier, Julia had been standing in front of a bubbling cauldron in the middle of a classic mad scientist lab in the Old House basement, dropping very peculiar looking pellets into a frothing brew...

G.

Cassie Collins took an axe,
Give the monster 40 whacks...

Today's photo really deserves a special prize! Fabulous work MB!

G.

I just watched a few minutes... quite offbeat, and I liked it. It reminds me of Queer as folk.

According to the y.t. commenters, several of the actors (or at least a couple) are alumni from One Life to Live, a soap with multiple DS connections.

G.

I haven't read the article, but I agree with you, Josette. I lived in a development outside a small town in northern Maryland, and when I was a child in the mid to late 1960s, I remember there being multiple phones in most people's homes. I never had one in my bedroom, but we had one in our finished basement and I'd go down there when I wanted to gab with a friend about the latest movies we'd been watching on TV or the latest monster mags we'd found in the local shop, McIlhenny's.

G.

I love today's photo. Miss Hoffman at her most insidiously reassuring. Of course Sam and Joe don't really buy any of it, but from what I recall, she manages to talk them into not rocking the boat for a while longer.

G.