An Oscar Week Favorite…Lewis Horvitz Directing The Awards
Here’s a video several have requested. From the 69th Annual Academy Awards show, here’s the director in the truck at the Shrine Auditorium on March 24, 1997. Gil Cates produced. Enjoy.
Adelphi Theater Stage Is Now…New York Hilton’s Grand Ballroom If you ever want to conjure up the ghosts of ‘The Honeymooners’, make your way to the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton as that is where the stage of the Adelphi Theater was located. After I posted the rare new photo from Peter Katz […]
August 28, 1922…The First Radio Commercial Airs On WEAF Would you believe that AT&T invented radio advertising? It’s true, and their first and only involvement with broadcast radio left a lasting legacy. It’s only fitting that the story be told here by radio, and this five minute NPR piece tells it in detail using what […]
Just In! New Photo Of The Center Theater There are not many photos of Radio City Music Hall’s little sister, The Center Theater, so we are glad to have this. This photo was taken in February of 1946 and shows the last parts of the elevated train tracks being removed from 6th Avenue. The Center […]
TeleTales #59…By Request, The Andy Griffith Opening This rare photo is one of the most shared images ever posted here, and to answer the many requests to see it again, here it is. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee Source