For The Young At Heart And Strong Of Bladder…Times Square
The good news is, they have a front row seat for America’s biggest party. The bad news is, once you are there, you can’t leave and get back in. I’ll bet there are some mighty long restroom lines. Thanks to Geoffrey DeVoe, Eric Eisenstein, Craig Haper and Anthony Quintano for these Time Square pix. Happy New Year! -Bobby Ellerbee
October 18, 1964…Hallmark Brings “The Fantasticks” To Television At the link above is a kinescope of the famous Broadway play, that was the October 18, 1964 presentation of “The Hallmark Hall Of Fame”. Below, the photo shows John Davidson speaking to his father, who is played by Bert Lahr. This was done live to tape […]
The KTLA Tower Comes Down…For Now I’ve avoided writing about the renovations at historic KTLA because I haven’t been able to find a clear story on what’s going on, but I think they are taking down part of the main (front) building and a couple of storage buildings to put up a big office tower, […]
It’s Howdy Doody Time…And Places When the show started in 1947, it originated from NBC’s first TV studio 3H. Up top is our old friend Frank Merklein with his trusty TK10 on the Doody set in 3H. Posing with Frank as the dolly man is the show’s director Sandy Howard. 8G came on line in […]
August 9, 1957…”Home” With Arlene Francis Ends Three Year Run NBC’s “Home” show debuted March 1, 1954 at 11 AM from their 67th Street Studios which were built just a few years earlier by WOR. The concept came from a show NBC President Pat Weaver had originally titled “Shopping”, and was designed for the upscale […]
No portables?!
How about the faint of heart and those of us who drink too much liquids?
A great sponsor might be Depends instead of lip cream!
We will watch on the flat screen. I have to go to the bathroom when’s commercial for Pepsi.