The Story Of The Ruby Slippers, Part 3 & 4
The discovery came in the spring of 1970…here is the story!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8TrN-RGLOg PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKebFys0Vt0 PART 4
The Story behind the most famous pair of slippers ever made.
Now this is interesting! Here is a Modern Mechanix article from November 1937 that is complaining about TV. Not the abundance, but the lack! London had 5,000 sets in use while there were only 150 in New York. A lot of finger-pointing about why…leads us back to $$$. Yes, patents were an issue and no […]
November 10, 1938…First Ever Performance, “God Bless America” Tomorrow is Veterans Day in America, a tribute day that was originally called Armistice Day. It is still observed in many countries by it’s original name, and as Remembrance Day, which marked the end of World War I on November 11, 1918. From one veteran to all […]
Naked To The World…Studio 33, CBS Television City After all these years of seeing Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Carol Burnett, The Smothers Brothers, ‘The Match Game’, The Price Is Right’ and probably a thousand more shows on this stage, it’s nice to see it in it’s natural state. It always looks so intimate on television […]
End Of An Era! The NBC sign comes down in Burbank. Photo courtesy of Dave Segar Source