Picture Parade 1…The Voice Of Christmas Past
Here’s a look back at some of the surprises under the tree many of us at least hoped for. I’d never seen a CBS or ABC truck till I went looking for these pictures. This internet thingy has more pictures than a Sears catalog ;>) Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
‘Tonight’…Son Of ‘The Knickerbocker Beer Show’ When ‘Broadway Open House’ left the air in August of ’51, late night television got put on the back burner as NBC’s Pat Weaver was busy putting together ‘The Today Show’, which debuted in January of 1952. After a year or so of intense focus on the early mornings, […]
The History Of Live Pool Splashdown Coverage…Part 2A Our friend Jodie Peeler has written a great three part story on this subject with lots of detail, linked video and photos that I am proud to present here. Unlike today, bringing live television pictures from a ship at sea was a whole new ballgame and in […]
The female in these Match Game clips is our friend Christina Skaggs. She lives in Hawaii now and is a fantastic artist, working in several mediums. Here are 4 videos that show the Norelco PC 70s at Television City at work on The Match Game. Gene liked to mess with them as you’ll see here. […]
CBS, NBC First West Coast Homes (With Video) Before there was Television City and NBC Color City, there was CBS Columbia Square and NBC Radio City West. Both were originally built for radio and about a third of their radio shows came from Hollywood. Columbia Square opened in April 1938 and television came there in […]
Nylint Toys made an ABC-TV truck many years ago with a sliding room. I never bought one because the Control Room inside wasn’t very realistic.
Wow! Would love to have those.
I thought the ABC truck was the Australian Broadcasting Company because the driver is sitting on the opposite side.
These are great!
I wish I had known about these as a kid! Even without the realistic control room, they would have been better than the ones I made for myself.
You can see a Dumont TV truck at the bottom of this photo of toy collector Ira Gallen.
These are awesome. I never knew these existed!!
The ABC truck is the same color scheme as their Political Spirit of 76 Election Night set.
I used to have an ABC Wide World of Sports Tonka production truck that AF Associates gave me…
want
Verrry cool.
My neighbor Eric would likely freak out for those!