Who remembers Marvin Zindler?

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by TFW46

I wondered about that. But the name was Marvin Zindler and the photo showed him looking exactly like pics I've seen of Marvin before all his surgeries.

A relative perhaps? His family lived in the area. As a teenager, I worked at a grocery store off Hillcroft with one of his grandsons in the late 80s.

[hbcu]

Originally Posted by RVD26

Nope, there will never be another like him.
Local TV stations don't like big personalities like that anymore.
Plus, he'd probably get in trouble somehow with today's "cancel culture" and everything else.

lol - name a news reporter who could show up dressed in all white and then twirl a baton with a marching band like he did at Texas Southern in 1994

You watch his segments he was intense lol

No one has recreated his food segments - EVER

[Texas Ag 93]

And how many reporters have had Dom DeLuise play them in a motion picture?

[TFW46]

Originally Posted by Texas Ag 93

A relative perhaps? His family lived in the area. As a teenager, I worked at a grocery store off Hillcroft with one of his grandsons in the late 80s.

I checked and he did have a son named Marvin Jr, whose age would have been right for him to have been in the 1960 Bellaire High school yearbook. And he looked so much like Marvin Sr (before the plastic surgery).

[resonator]

It was fun to watch him investigate/arrest folks on TV when he was a deputy sheriff.
He liked to visit the nicest health clubs in Houston (not for TV, just for the facilities). He was not a member of any of them but no one stopped him.

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by TFW46

I checked and he did have a son named Marvin Jr, whose age would have been right for him to have been in the 1960 Bellaire High school yearbook. And he looked so much like Marvin Sr (before the plastic surgery).

That's probably it then. I can't remember the grandson's name, I want to stay Steven. As an aside, it's not particularly common in the Jewish faith to name after a living relative, which is why you don't often see "Juniors" or "II's" when the parents are still living. Not unheard of, but not common.

Marvin is buried (or maybe he's Interred, I can't remember) in the Jewish cemetery just down the street from the Ikea off I-10.