May 29, 1950…Dual Debut! “Broadway Open House”, NBC Studio 6A When 30 Rockefeller Plaza was dedicated in November of 1933, the sixth and seventh floors were empty. The only thing in this space was the raw infrastructure and some work lights, and the elevators didn’t stop there till 1941. In 1933, television was still in […]
From “Kolac” To “Mork’…The ‘Happy Days’ Incarnation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cG2foNwiU Mork On ‘Happy Days’ (You’ll have to click on the link because for some reason, it doesn’t load like most videos. Must be a Facebook misfire of some sort.) As we learned in today’s first article, Mork’s lineage goes back to an alien character named Kolac (played […]
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC camera in use in 1947. Not knowing what else to do, I passed around a picture to a group of what I consider REAL experts. There was a lot of discussion but finally Ed Reitan, who has the great Early […]
Gone, But Not Forgotten…The Orange Bowl Parade Tomorrow, one of the nations oldest bowl games will be played in Miami but today, New Years Eve was the day the Orange Bowl Parade happened. It was a rare night parade and kicked off at 7PM, just like it had since 1936. Unfortunately, in 2002 that came […]