{"id":22874,"date":"2015-01-04T06:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22874"},"modified":"2016-10-28T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T23:31:24","slug":"picture-parade-1-ultra-rare-toast-of-the-town-cbs-1949-this-is-one-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22874","title":{"rendered":"ULTRA RARE! &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217;, CBS 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Parade  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/1\">#1<\/a>&#8230;ULTRA RARE! &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217;, CBS 1949 <\/p>\n<p>This is one of only four or five pictures of Ed Sullivan&#8217;s &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217; show from CBS Studio 51, also known as The Maxine Elliott Theater at 109 West 39th Street. <\/p>\n<p>Studio 51 is believed to the be the first theater CBS converted to television use, but when this show started here, I think it was covered as a remote for the first six months. After the show caught on, only then did CBS spend the money on the conversion by adding a control room. I&#8217;ll add two more pix from the Maxine Elliott years below in the comments section. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/777903838913834\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Picture-Parade-1...ULTRA-RARE-Toast-Of-The-Town-CBS-1949-This-is-one-of\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/777991505571734\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Parade #1&#8230;ULTRA RARE! &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217;, CBS 1949 This is one of only four or five pictures of Ed Sullivan&#8217;s &#8216;Toast Of The Town&#8217; show from CBS Studio 51, also known as The Maxine Elliott Theater at 109 West 39th Street. Studio 51 is believed to the be the first theater CBS converted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,686,822,725],"class_list":["post-22874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-control-room","tag-ed-sullivan","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}