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Car salesman C. Miller was an unlikely icon of 1970s | Local history
The acting was bad and the ads were silly. Those were the selling points. Northeast Ohio auto dealer Charles Leo Miller, better known as C. Miller, became an unlikely celebrity in the 1970s when he starred in a series of low-budget commercials on Cleveland television. The car salesman dressed up as dozens of characters — from Superman to a fortune teller to a prizefighter to a disco dancer to Whistler’s Mother — in an effort to lure customers into his showroom. No matter the spiel, his commercials always ended the same. In a Tennessee twang, Miller exclaimed: “See the USA in a C. Miller Chevrolet!” Then he blew a kiss to the camera. Smack. The businessman appeared in 100 commercials over a 12-year span, making the 1970s decidedly more surreal. How did a farm boy get to the big city? Easy. He got hit by a car. Errant letter led C. Miller to Ohio Miller was born Sept. 12, 1918, in Kingston, Tennessee, and grew up in the agricultural town of Sweetwater in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains . He joined the U.S. Army in 1942 during World War II and was stationed in Indiana when a motorist
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Downtown riverfront amphitheater gets final design approval by city
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Hop Aboard At This Ohio Railway Museum That Brings Out Your Inner Child Like Nothing Else
Some places just have it, that indefinable quality that makes you feel more alive the moment you arrive, and the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio has it in abundance. This isn’t a place you visit and forget about by the time you reach the highway.
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Akron Football Player Blasts The Entire Coaching Staff And All Of His Teammates In Scathing TikTok Video (As A Joke)
Omari Abor did it again. The redshirt senior defensive end at Akron criticized his entire coaching staff and his teammates during a scathing video on TikTok. He claims it was a “joke” and asks that you do not take “ts too serious please.” Even if that is true, Abor has a history of this kind […] The post Akron Football Player Blasts The Entire Coaching Staff And All Of His Teammates In Scathing TikTok Video (As A Joke) appeared first on BroBible.
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Velvet Vintage Boutique Says Goodbye to Historic Copley Home, Prepares to Reopen in Norton
After three years in a historic home near Copley Circle, Velvet Vintage Boutique is packing up and preparing for a fresh start in Norton. The women-owned boutique closed its Copley location at 1463 South Cleveland-Massillon Road on October 25. The charming, two-story green house, built in 1882, is slated for demolition.