This was the space formerly occupied by CBS Studios 41 and 42. I think this photo is from the early 80s and was probably taken when Donald Trump took over this space and re built two tennis courts here as the Vanderbilt Athletic Club. In 1966, a man from Hungary took over this space and installed a tennis court and an astroturf ski jump.
More Design Influence From John Vassos Even here, on this early RCA Mobile Unit, his style is present. The art decco chrome bands on the side and mudflaps are a Vassos touch. This 1947 shot from Times Square has a couple of TK30s on top of one of RCA’s first few remote trucks that were […]
‘The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour’ After the long run (1951-1957) of half hour episodes of ‘I Love Lucy’, the production team wanted to go one hour shows that aired monthly instead of weekly. As part of the setup, Ricky and Lucy moved to Connecticut in the final season of ‘Lucy’ and Fred and Ethel followed shortly […]
KTLA: First In The West Originally owned by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Television Productions, Inc., and located on the Paramount Studios lot, the station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1939 as experimental station W6XYZ, on channel 4, but did not go on the air until September 1942. Klaus Landsberg (below left), already an […]
CBS Television City: Studio 31, 1960 I’ve been meaning to post this since the great ‘Price Is Right’ videos a week or so ago. Although TPIR is done in Studio 33, 31 was a mirror image until the audience area was filled in 1961. The audience capacity of each…31 and 33 was 347. The Net […]