[NJARC] Wee Willie Webber, Phila Radio & TV Icon Passes...

[John Ruccolo]

Wow! Many of these are before my time, or I never heard of them.

Gene Crane became a weatherman and lasted many years in that role, and Stu Nahan became the Flyers play-by-play announcer (possibly their first?). He eventually moved to the west coast and had a small part as himself in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," I think it was.

The Big Three, in my opinion: Wee Willie, Gene London and "Your gal Sal" Sally Starr -- who is STILL on the radio today, doing a country muisic show. I think she knew Marconi personally. ;-)



----- Original Message ----
From: Al Klase <al at ar88.net>
To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, May 24, 2010 4:58:01 PM
Subject: Re: [NJARC] Wee Willie Webber, Phila Radio & TV Icon Passes...

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Hi Mike,

Of course, we did other things.  There wasn't a TV in our house until I 
was five.  However, television is the "wet-ware" equivalent of Direct 
Memeory Access, and I think it had a considerable effect on all of us.

As John R. points out, a lot of programming was local, and TV was 
different in each market,  For instance, children's programs in 
Philadelphia:

    *  Adam Android (Aldo Farnese)
    * Bertie the Bunyip (Lee Dexter)
    * Candy Apple News Company (Matt Robinson)
    * Captain Noah and His Magical Ark (W. Carter Merbreier)
    * Captain Philadelphia (Stu Nahan)
    * Carney C. Carney (Harry LeVan)
    * Cartoon Corners (Gene London)
    * Cartoon Party (Pauline Comanor)
    * Chief Halftown (Traynor Halftown)
    * The Children's Hour (Stan Lee Broza)
    * C'mon to Uncle Pete's (Pete Boyle)
    * Dickory Doc (Aldo Farnese)
    * Frontier Playhouse (Pete Boyle)
    * Fun House (Pete Boyle)
    * The Ghost Rider (Robert Olander)
    * Grand Chance Roundup (Gene Crane)
    * Happy the Clown (Howard Jones)
    * Jack Valentine's T-K Ranch (Jack Valentine)
    * The Lorenzo Show (Gerry Wheeler)
    * Lunch with Uncle Pete (Pete Boyle)
    * Mr. Rivets (Joe Earley)
    * Pete's Gang (Pete Boyle)
    * Pixanne (Jane Norman)
    * Popeye Theater (Sally Starr)
    * Ranger Joe (Jesse Rogers)
    * Romper Room ("Miss Claire" Coleman)
    * Shorty the Clown (Bill Hart)
    * Sidewalk Science (Gerry Wheeler)
    * Surprise Shop (Pete Boyle)
    * Tottle (Jane Norman)
    * The Wee Willie Colorful Cartoon Show (Bill Webber)
    * Willie the Worm (Warren Wright)
    * The World Around Us (Anita Cleaver)

From:  
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-local-children%27s-television-series

They missed a couple:  Shock Theater with Roland, a.k.a. John Zacherly 
plus a Saturday AM science-fiction program hosted by The Flying Saucerer.

Al

On 5/24/2010 2:04 PM, Mike Feher wrote
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> Gee - did you guys just watch TV? Even back then I was always playing with
> radios and TVs. That is of course taking them apart :). Although I did build
> several of the HBR series receivers in the early 60's and my main home brew
> transmitter at the same time. I even built a radar out of Popular
> electronics around 1962, and a computer that would add or subtract, in
> binary, using a telephone dial as an input device and light bulbs for
> reading the answer. Who had time for TV? - Mike
>    
>

-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

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