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WLS Channel 7 - Editorial Reply - "School Integration" (1979)

Views: 1796

Here's an reply to an editorial on HEW (Department of Health, Education and Welfare - predecessor to Health and Human Services, HHS)-mandated school integration policies, as aired on WLS Channel 7. Featuring Doris "Pixie" Galik, Treasurer of the Chicago Lawn Civic Association.

She maintains that Chicago has done everything it can to integrate its schools (to the point where, according to her, public schools have more black than white students), and rails against government-dic...

Jewish Chautauqua Society - "Take Care of Your Parents" (PSA, 1979)

Views: 782

Here's a brief public service announcement from the Jewish Chautauqua Society, emphasizing how parents who took care of you when you were young, now need you to take care of them when they are elderly.

Voiceover by ?? (sounds almost like Norman Rose).

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, May 2nd 1979 during the 3:30pm to 5:00pm timeframe.

Star Wars Droid Factory by Kenner (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1064

Here's a commercial for the Star Wars Droid Factory by Kenner. A "non-canon" toy that was a bit of a rare oddity back then since there was no "droid factory" in the original movie. Notable for allowing you to make an R2-D2 that actually looks like R2 (more so than the actual action figure) since it includes Artoo's middle extendable leg.

Voiceover by Norman Rose.

This aired on local Kansas City TV on Saturday, December 29th 1979. (1977 Copyright, Twentiet...

WHEN Channel 5 - Channel 5 Morning Report with Mike Leiderman - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1971?)

Views: 1028

Transferred direct from Quad 2" tape, and not from Chicago itself, but Chicago-related, as this features Mike Leiderman who would go on to become a fixture both in front of and behind the camera in Chicago television (mainly at WMAQ Channel 5 and WFLD Channel 32).

This was from the days when he was an anchor at CBS affiliate WHEN Channel 5 (now WTVH) in Syracuse, NY. It is one of the four-minute Channel 5 Morning Reports he anchored at 8:55am and 9:55am (ET). On this p...

WGN Channel 9 - John Drury and NewsNine - "Our Lady of the Angels Fire Confession" (1979)

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Here's a segment from John Drury and NewsNine on WGN Channel 9, involving a confession from an unnamed person - then in his thirties, at the time on parole after serving time for arson and murder - in connection with the fire that destroyed the Our Lady of the Angels school on Chicago's West Side on December 1st 1958, killing 92 students and three nuns.

This clip starts off at the tail end of Drury's introduction of the report, by Alex Burkholder, which was filmed on Aug...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Solid Mold" (Excerpt, 1982)

Views: 1178

Here's an excerpt from Son of Svengoolie on WFLD Channel 32, with the recording coming in somewhere after the start of a sketch called "Solid Mold" (a spoof of the syndicated series Solid Gold). Here, Rich Koz reprises his most famous parody - that of Mister Rogers, here singing some current hits of the day while accompanied on the piano by Doug Graves (Doug Scharf).

This clip comes in during the middle of Mister Rogers performing a version of Chicago's "Hard to ...

WDCA Channel 20 - Snipets - "Pigpen Cipher" (1980)

Views: 826

Here's another rare Snipets segment! These originally were created by and [primarily] aired on the Kaiser Broadcasting / Field Communications stations such as WFLD Channel 32, in the 1970's and early '80's. However, in a discovery that is sure to change SnipetsHistory forever - this one was discovered on a Betamax recording of a broadcast of the Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain" on WDCA Channel 20 (Washington, D.C.) from April of 1980!

At this time the Field ...

WSET Channel 13 - News 13 (Preview, Break & Opening, 1977)

Views: 1349

Here's the preview, commercial break, and opening moments of the early evening edition of News 13 on ABC affiliate WSET Channel 13 in Lynchburg, Virginia. The anchor is Stan Jayson, with reports by Jeff Taylor, ABC News' John Martin, and Jenny Smith. The on-air text is set in fonts that were part of the same 3M Datavision package as in use back then at our own WSNS Channel 44. Includes:

News preview (voiceover by Jeff Taylor) with teases of following items:
- V...

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour - "You Always Have a Party" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1803

Here's a commercial for Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, a "totally wacko" place for kids 6 to 14 "or right in between".

This spot really brought back memories. A birthday party at Farrell's was a major thrill when I was about 5 years old.

I remember there was a Farrell's inside North Riverside Mall - I wonder when it closed?

I remember there was a Simpson's episode where Moe the Bartender opened up an Ice Cream Parlour for kids and whoever wrote th...