Where am I? part 2
So Truman upsets Dewey, Missouri is happy even Kansas but the rest of the mid-west is P.O.ed. I don’t care what party you favor if a guy can’t tie his shoelaces maybe he should be president. To recover from this trauma my folks planned a trip. So we, the family take this three-day drive east over 2 lanes highways that the local cows designed. By east that’s Iowa to New York City. The hayseeds are headed to the cultural center of the universe, circa 1952. It happened that my mom talked pop into a little R & R in her hometown, Manhattan, culture for the kids and this was pre Sesame Street.
First stop was in north Philly to see an aunt, uncle and cousins…. Over the next four days dad spoon-feed us four semesters of college level American history and "by the way boys, this here’s the Liberty Bell and that valley is called Forge". It was up close and personal without a Philly Beef Steak sandwich. Then it was through the corkscrew, (Holland Tunnel) and the Oki’s are in the Big Apple.
After a short tour at Macys’s getting all dolled up we hit the street’s and walked by CBS’s (the radio company) building on Madison Ave. And what to our surprise they had this talking radio in their window. It stops us cold. Us being the four brothers and parents. Out of this big wood box not only came sound but a moving picture of a guy selling Lipton tea bags. The guy was Art Godfried and his show Talent Scouts. Today Fox has the same thing going, In the 30’s it was a guy named Major Bowes and his Talent Hour. Yes there is nothing new under the sun, just new wrapping paper. This was our first exposure to commerical TV, Modern man’s gift to the world.
Months later back in our hometown our neighbor fired up the state’s first TV station and Pop goes out and purchases a talking box with a picture tube inside…. its’s Time for Beanie, the Range Rider and Captain Gallant and our minds have never been quite the same… the next day we rocked on with Dick Clark!
WHO NEEDS RADIO?
posted by Up North @ 6:40 AM
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6 Comments:
If you're going to make it as a historian, you'll need to verify dates. I mean, correctly citing dates as opposed to what you think is correct off the top of your bald head is no doubt what caused you to fail history.
Truman upset Dewey--1948 not 1952.
So, if you were in NYC in 1948, then spying a TV for the first time might be correct.
The host was Arthur Godfrey (not Godfried)...he of "coconut wireless" fame.
Dick Clark didn't start entertaining until "years" not "months" later. American Bandstand probably didn't begin until the late 1950s--but, I'll admit to not knowing the exact date.
And so forth...
Zzzzzz....
FYI....
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs.
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Eighty-two percent of bloggers think they will still be blogging in a year. Three percent say they have quit.
The Pew report was based on a telephone survey of 233 self-identified bloggers conducted between July 2005 and February 2006. The error margin was 6.7 percent.
The report may understate rapid changes in how people blog, as 13 percent of those surveyed used LiveJournal software to blog, MySpace was used by 9 percent and Blogger 6 percent of the time. MySpace has proliferated since the survey ended and far outnumbers other tools.
More than 40 percent of bloggers said they never quote sources or other media directly. Eleven percent said they post corrections. Sixty-one percent said they rarely or never get permission to use copyrighted material.
Fifty-five percent of bloggers write under a pseudonym. Nearly nine out of ten bloggers invite comments from other readers. Four out of five blogs use text, while 72 percent display photos and audio links play on 30 percent of blogs.
Eighty-two percent of bloggers think they will still be blogging in a year. Three percent say they have quit.
The Pew report was based on a telephone survey of 233 self-identified bloggers conducted between July 2005 and February 2006. The error margin was 6.7 percent.
The report may understate rapid changes in how people blog, as 13 percent of those surveyed used LiveJournal software to blog, MySpace was used by 9 percent and Blogger 6 percent of the time. MySpace has proliferated since the survey ended and far outnumbers other tools.
ohhh...I get it...birchbark TALES!
Ta, ta whose story is this? We must we between the lines and add flexiblity to our lives, some people need to take Yoga and the the twit on Star Wars. Breath- exhale, breath - exhale, now we are getting someplace...
Wait, if this is the first episode then shouldn't it begin "First the earth cooled - then the dinosaurs came...."
I get it, you're doing this like the Star Wars series with the first installment really being in the middle then going forward and then finally starting at the beginning and meeting the first movie last.
Now I understand.
In 1952 Truman did upset Dewey but it was Donald Duck's nephew.
MLC
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