From the Archives: The old telephone in a shoe trick

Oct. 29, 1970: Jess Unruh, campaigning for governor in Huntington Beach, kids communications advisor Bob Cheny, left, by taking off a shoe and pretending to talk into it.

Cheny had previously given Unruh a shoe with a working phone in it as a birthday present.

Unruh’s parody of the “Get Smart”...