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Michael,  you have a spectacular memory... I'm VERY confused.  I could've sworn in the 1970's being in a WPIX building (at least I thought) but perhaps I'm confusing it with a WXP?  or WPEN,   I just don't remember anymore... Why I thought WPIX was Philly I don't know,  I've thought that for YEARS... Interesting how we can get an incorrect concept, and just hang onto it for years... I thought Philly had a WPIX building in the heart of it.  WOW..am I baffled now.  This would've been around 1970-1973

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

You know this reminds me...about 6 years ago I got into this astronomy kick and spent a fortune on a telescope, books, etc.  The only problem is I realized was
1.  Here in Minnesota the only comfortable time to view the heavens is during misquito season.
2.  Hard to find a place anymore where there are is no obstructing  light coming from street lights and buildings (really messes up things).
3.  The whole thing involved too much math for me to really get a feel for the thing.

I did learn something however, and remember getting some really good focuses on Saturn (quite a sight) and Jupiter.  I've always been fascinated with the notion that the heavenly bodies are something ALL of us and our ancestors have seen, more or less in their original states.  One thing I learned and never had thought of before is that when looking at a star, we rarely stop to think that what we see took thousands of light years to reach our eyeball...this stuff is amazing.

WPIX    The Millionaire..... Michael Anthony
           Chiller Theater.....Chiller
           The Merry Mail man
Coco the clown ...Drawn from a fountain pen then returns to the ink  well         after each show.

The Sandy Becker Show.   does anybody here Have an Ardvark?

Saturday mornings .......Shenanagins

Bozo the Clown

Captian Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans

Let's not leave Mr. Moose out.....He was my favorite on Captain Kangaroo...I was always scared of Mr. Green Jeans

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Ah yes! "Chiller Theater"!  I can still remember that as one of the few times as a child in my dysfunctional family where we would all gather around the TV.  My dad would bring home ice cream from his restaurant (always coffee ice cream).

Now, Philadelphia's independent station was Channel 17--I wish I could remember the call letters.  One of my favorites was a horror show host called "Dr. Shock".  Just adored the guy and he was a laff riot. I belonged to the "Dr. Shock Fan Club" (all for $1.99).  Their kiddie show host was "Wee Willie Weber"--even as a kid I never thought he was into it that much!

WCAU (a CBS affiliate) out of Philadelphia had cowgirl Sally Starr (she used to be a bit tipsy at times--I always wondered why my mom was laughing so much at her), Gene London, Pixanne and Chief Halftown, who used to promote local young talent.  One of the Four Aces, Al Alberts had a talent show on that station too.

As a teenager I worked for Atlantic City's WFPG ("World's Finest Playground) AM/FM radio station on the Steel Pier.  I remember my first night there and hearing the voice of this man named Ed Davis ("The Voice" of Atlantic City--I grew up hearing this man on my dad's radio since I could remember) coming down the hallway--it was a weird feeling!  He LOOKED like he should have too, pencil thin mustache, wavy white hair and a polka dot bowtie. One of the few times in my life where the mental image meeting up with the real thing was not a letdown.

New Jersey had a decent little company called "edmund Scientific",  I had an Astroscan, until I spent money at Orion Telescope Co, and bought a real toy  LOL

The smaller scopes are fine for closer viewing such as Saturn's rings. The moon etc.. But for deeper space viewing it pays to get the "Light Bucket" (Dobsonian), or even one of the Catadioptric model's but the Schmidt Cassegrain's are costly... A decent refractor costs a fortune too if you want a large enough scope that can capture enough light... Problem I have with the Dobsonians, is that you really need AT LEAST a 6 inch or larger... Those things are big, take up room.... etc... I wish one of the larger companies such as Celestian, Orion, or (forgot the other couple of them) made a short tube 4-5 inch reflector that captured the light needed for deeper space observation, At least you don't have alot of light pollution out there... around here, it's pretty bad.


Jersey had a lot of decent scientific mail order companies in the late 60's.  I used to order my end caps, fuse-wire, and casings from a company named CaseC0.   Powdered aluminum too... I was big into explosives when I was young.. That MIGHT be part of the problem  LOL .. I used to make my own 1/4 sticks,  Ashcans (silver Salutes), M-80's, M-100's,  etc

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Ah, yes! Edmund Scientific--I still get their catalog and last I looked they were still in Jersey.  I still propound that South Jersey's greatest natural resource however were splinters and popsicle sticks in the sand....it was great growing up by the shore like that however...still miss it.

I called my mom,  (She was born and raised in Philly), said the only time I was in the center of Philly however would've been around mid-60's... She doesn't recall PIX being Philly...,  Oh well...  I had problems with northern jersey,  I guess Jersey has been cleaned up somewhat recently but Hoboken area was no pleasure driving thru.. Some of those factory's made for great practice learning to hold our breath as we drove into NYC from Caldwell every two weeks...My God,  It STUNK... Land of Make Believe, Jump Jenny mountain,  Verona Park, but never really S Jersey... I know nothing of S jersey, we were within 45 minutes from the City usually.. Cedar Grove, W Caldwell, etc.. Yep, Edmund is still Jersey.. They've existed a long time, nice little company.  When we moved to Westport Ct.  Where I spent most of my childhood until my parents tried to pull their first (of many) disappearing stunts while I was away at college, I lived 4 miles from the LI Sound, nothing nicer than basking on a beach of broken glass, barnacles, rocks, and horse shoe crabs, followed by stepping on a Portugese Man-O-War as soon as you enter the water, to help a kid develop "character"


The toughest abuse I had to endure growing up, besides the daily mental and physical stuff, was listening to Alan Sherman's  "My Song the Folk Singer" for hours a day  :(   That did some irreparable damage

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That's odd you mentioned Allan Sherman Steven...a few weeks ago I subbed "Hello Muhder, Hello Fawder"...I remember he had his own variety show--actually the only reason I remembered it is because he and his guests would come on stage on a conveyor belt built into the floor...funny how you remember stuff like that.  I could only have been about 3 years old I imagine.

I thought Klondike was spelled with a "K"..

(It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye.. )  LMAO

Yes,  I still have a black rotary phone.  Never returned it.. It's from the Caldwell days when my Phone Number was CA-8 1599     Went to Washington Elementary school, and used to beat the *$&# out've one of the 6th graders  (JDmeister)..  He was older, but my god,  what a wuss   It was a small town,  the girls used to keep themselves busy by chasing boys, and beating up Jerry...  We had to find our own entertainment !

You know how kids are,  anything different scares them.  Jerry was the only 5th grader with a moustache, full beard, sideburns, and white hair...  Kids just didn't understand

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Steven, my real name is      :drums:       Jerry D.     My face looks like your knuckles.  :shock:     5th grade was not the least bit funny.      :no:

NO, that's the gentile spelling !  In Long Island anything stamped with "K" means Kristian.  You don't remember driving thru Lon Gisland ?   The term is british for Israel.  Look it up on the internet.  The state bird is the Pickled Heron.  The mascot as I recall is a poodle with a yarmulke and sideburns. Before driving across the White Stein bridge,  you have to kiss a mazzuzza on the toll both..  It's weird.. I stopped going to Lon Gisland.. I don't like Briss-kit either, afraid they'll take off the remaining 1.7 inches..

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".