A Brief History of Los Alamitos-Rossmoor
Larry Strawther has been writing professionally since high school--for newspapers, musical comedy groups, television, movies and now books.He has been a writer, script consultant and executive producer for the television classicsHappy Days, Laverne & ShirleyandNight Courtand the co-creator and executive producer of the cult comedy hitMXC(Most Extreme Elimination Challenge).But he has also written for movies (Without a Clue, a Sherlock Holmes comedy), game shows (head writer onJeopardy!in 1978-79) and for comedians such as Bob Hope, Rich Little and others and has even been a Bay Area sportswriter (late 1960s-early 1970s).  Somehow he also found time to be a writer-performer for the San Francisco comedy band Butch Whacks & the Glass Packs, full time from 1973 to 1976 (opening for the Doobie Brothers, Tower of Power and Ike and Tina Turner, among others), and since 1983 has done a once-a-year annual "farewell performance," which sells out a weekend set every June.  He is also a history buff and has written numerous local history articles for local publications, runs a local history website and can now officially say he has written a history book.