[NJARC] [sally starr, wee willlie, gene london and more

[JFMcPeak at aol.com]

My gal Sal lives in Atco NJ and does a radio show each week on the same  
South Jersey (vineland) station that Wee Willie was on - I just heard him a  
month or so ago. Sally also has a pizza joint in Atco. Gene London lives in 
NYC  and collects dresses (costume gowns).
 
By the way Jerry Blavat (the geator with the heater) does a radio show each 
 evening on the same Vineland station.It's a pretty odd but electic radio  
station. 
 
Pixanne still sings in cabarets. 
 
  
 
 
In a message dated 5/24/2010 5:58:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jr6v6gt at yahoo.com writes:

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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. ;-)



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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-televisio
n-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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