{"id":32603,"date":"2012-10-25T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=32603"},"modified":"2021-02-20T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T16:51:31","slug":"now-this-will-take-you-backfrom-the-early-1950s-heres-a-generic-weat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=32603","title":{"rendered":"Now THIS Will Take You Back! Weather Package Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now THIS Will Take You Back!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1950s weather report animations\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOLgNuVVmBw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the early 1950&#8217;s, here&#8217;s a generic weather package for sale to local stations. Compared to what we have today, the weather reports on the local news stations were not much more than &#8216;chalk talks&#8217;. Some used actual chalk boards, some had fancy plastic covered maps they drew on, some had magnetic &#8216;suns and clouds&#8217; and some had sliding boards with different local and national maps. Little things like this were a big help in jazzing things up.<\/p>\n<p>Not till 1975 when GOES 1 was launched could we see cloud loops on TV. After that, a lot of things changed quickly and Doppler radar came in 80s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/442980005739554\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Now-THIS-Will-Take-You-Back-From-the-early-1950s-heres-a-generic-weat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/442980015739553\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now THIS Will Take You Back! From the early 1950&#8217;s, here&#8217;s a generic weather package for sale to local stations. Compared to what we have today, the weather reports on the local news stations were not much more than &#8216;chalk talks&#8217;. Some used actual chalk boards, some had fancy plastic covered maps they drew on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32604,"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":[],"class_list":["post-32603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32603","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=32603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58639,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32603\/revisions\/58639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}