We mourn Crazy Grady (5/22)

I was living in Boston at the end of the 90's working on the "Mrs. Garrett's Rack" for some manufacturers. Anyway, a workplace discussion got us talking about Whitman Mayo, the guy who played Grady on Sanford and Sons.

Long story short, "Whit" was surprisingly easy to track down.

He was living in Atlanta, GA (I go there for work sometimes), so I kept trying to set up a dinner so I could get some good Redd Foxx stories. Anyway he was always eager, but we never got hooked up because of scheduling. Unfortunately, and he died 5 years ago on the 22nd of this month. It was kind of a surprise he died I guess because he always sounded good, funny, boozy. By the way, he was a lot younger than you would think; I guess they portrayed him as older on the show.
I never got any funny stories from him about Redd Foxx, but he did make me laugh. He used to tell me that he was going to come up to Boston for some clam chowder, lobster, red sox game, blah, blah, blah. He tied in every regional thing he could and he plowed into the idea with a truckload of enthusiasm. I dig enthusiastic people. Fucking great guy.

What the hell, here's a picture of Lawanda Page to cleanse the palate.