A Blast from the Past. To all those born between 1930 and 1979. (Buffalo: wages, job)

[nancy thereader]

Where is this , ann?

[ClarkStreetKid]

Ann,
Just wondering what's the age and economic range of the neighbors, have they planted roots or just stopping off on their way to the next McMansion, also are there are a lot of kids?

[Ann1]

I live in Houston in an area called Olde Oaks. The homes are beautiful and the ages range from young married couples with young children to older people whose children have already left home. Quite a few people move from transfers and then I have a feeling quite a few people are not able to keep up with their homes financially. I have a neighbor across the street and in nineteen years I had two waves. I try to be friendly but it is very different living then in the East. Actually, I had two very close friends that I met when I first moved down here and they were both from Long Island. They could not take living down here and when their husbands refused to move back East they both left their husbands,took the kids and moved back to NY.

[roadrunnergal]

Maybe it is the times.The people who have come out to our area in CA build houses on acreage and then stay inside all the time. I think some people have forgotten how to enjoy the outdoors. They just want to watch their giant tvs.

I lived in Hawaii for 8 years in the 80's and there was a very lively neighborhood life. Our neighbors came over with gifts when we moved in. The kids got to run wild. They rode their bikes, skated, went to the corner candy store and the local park. People looked out for the kids. All colors, shapes and sizes.No shoes, lived in shorts and tops.Summer all the time. Another universe.

roadrunnergal

[Ann1]

I agree roadrunnergal. I think that's all the people do is sit and watch their large TV screens. Life is just not like it use to be but neither is anything else.

[Fun City Man]

To the users of The Blast From The Past Website..


Next month on Saturday June 14,2008?


WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC will air a combination

classic tv shows marathon and an hour long tv tribute.


This is being done to honor the station's 60th anniversary.


The marathon..which will air reruns of"The Adventures Of

Superman","The Abbott & Costello Show","My Favorite Martian",

"Get Smart","The Odd Couple","The Honeymooners" and "The Little

Rascals" and "Three Stooges"Film comedies will begin at 12:00 P.M.

and end at 9:00 P.M.


The station will also air an hour long tribute to it's six

decades of creating,producing and presenting memorble

local tv shows to the viewers..young and old of "The Big

Apple".


Ch.11's resident newscasters..Ms.Kaity Tong and Mr.Jim

Wakins will be the tribute's hosts/narrators.


This is the second time that the management of WPIX

TV has aired a tribute to it's many years of broadcasting

(The first show"WPIX At 40!"was taped at the last of The

Horn & Hardadt Automat restaurants at E.42nd St. and 3rd

Ave. in NYC on Friday night July 10,1988 and aired on Thursday

night September 29,1988)..that tribute to Ch.11's 40th

anniversary was..forgetable..to say the least!


Hopefully?

This 60th anniversary tv tribute to Ch.11's sixty years of

broadcasting and the classic tv shows that the station will

air on this marathon..will be better than the previous tv

tribute that the station aired 20 years ago.


If any of the users of The Blast From The Past website have

any memories of the tv shows that they have seen on WPIX TV

in NYC over the years?


Please share those memories will all of us?


Fun City Man!

[nancy thereader]

Welcome back , Fun City Man. It's great to hear from you again. I will try to catch part of that Marathon. Has it been sixty years?
All of us who grew up in the fifties and sixties in New York and Long Island remember Channel Eleven. That was the kids' station after all . It had Rootie Kazootie and The Merry Mailman , I remember meeting him on the Port Jeff Ferry once . I did not know who he was without his uniform, but my Dad did. His daughter who later became somewhat notorious was with him. She was probably only five or six at the time.
After school ; was that the Zacarlee (spelling?) channel ? Remember the Yuletime log?
And, when all the stations would sign off with The Star Spangled Banner at midnight?
Was it (as Michael Moore might say) all a dream?

[Fun City Man]

Dear Nancy The Reader,


Thanks for your reply,

With all due respect..?

WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC never aired"Rootie Kazootie"..

that show aired on NBC & ABC TV from 1950 to Friday May 7,1954.


You're confusing"Rootie Kazootie"With "Kukla & Ollie!"..Ch.11

did aired reruns of kinnie films of the show in the early 1960's.


Also..the name of the horror show host/performer that aired

reruns of old late 1950's sci-fi films on"Chiller Theater"saturday

nights on Ch.11 during the 1964/1965 tv season and "The Mighty

Hercules"TV cartoons Weekday Evenings on Ch.11 from monday

September 9,1963 to 1964 ?

His name is spelt John Zacherley..Not Zacharlee(His last

name is really spelt..Zacherle..but for his professtional name

he added a y to the end of that last name)


"The Merry Mailman"did air weekday afternoons on Ch.11

during "Peanut Butter And Jellytime"from Monday September 25,

1961 to Friday May 31,1963.


This version of the show was not as successful as Mr.Heatherton's

previous edition of the series..which aired weekday evenings and afternoons

and Saturday afternoons on WOR TV Ch.9 in NYC from Monday October 16,

1950 to Friday March 22,1956.


At least..I did get a chance to watch"The Merry Mailman's Funhouse!"

(that was the show's original title..before it was changed to"The Merry

Mailman!")weekday afternoons..when I was not in school during it's

brief three year run on Ch.11.


Again,

Thanks For Your Reply And I hope that you will

enjoy watching WPIX TV Ch.11 NYC's 60t Anniversary

tv tribute and Classic TV Shows Marathon on Saturday

June 14,


Fun City Man!

[scammed1]

I remember Kula, Fran and Ollie. Was it Ollie that looked somewhat like a dragon and had a big tooth (teeth) showing?
3 Stooges was a regular show at our house.
Any chance for those that are far removed from the WPIX station we can see some of this online?

[nancy thereader]

His name is spelt John Zacherley..Not Zacharlee(His last

name is really spelt..Zacherle..but for his professtional name

he added a y to the end of that last name)

Thanks, fcm. Didn't they try to revive all of that in the late seventies? Or eighties?
Even Howdy Doody had a temporary renaissance, I seem to recall.
I wonder what Zacharley is doing now. And, Soupy Sales?

Was Clarabelle really Bob Keeshon ?