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Someone found this on the internet and forwarded it to me -- a newspaper ad for the TV weather show my Dad used to do as a moonlighting job back in the 50s and 60s. (Three kids, and a professor's salary was not very high back then.)
A lot of people in central Ohio knew him from the show, who had no idea what his day job was. On a couple of occasions, I got to watch the show from the studio -- very different from today's TV descendants. Putting up the predictions consisted of writing tomorrow's forecast numbers with a squeaky flow pen on sheets of yellow (on the screen, B&W) paper pinned to a bulletin board.
Commercials were live as well. The most popular sponsor was Omar Bakery; they brought cakes and pies and what-not in to show off, which the stage crew demolished afterward. There was also a live "nature" show afterwards, with, iirc, Don Mack, who sometimes brought in live animals. Which a couple of times got loose in the studio -- once, an eagle. Dad said he was wondering, all the while he was doing his delivery under the hot lights, why the cameramen kept looking up to the ceiling and cringing...
His predictions were pretty good, being based on a profound understanding of the physics of weather. For a while, I was once told, some of the SAC pilots at nearby Lockbourne Air Force Base were calling him up in preference to their own service, till their security people caught up with them and made them stop.
Ta, L.
A lot of people in central Ohio knew him from the show, who had no idea what his day job was. On a couple of occasions, I got to watch the show from the studio -- very different from today's TV descendants. Putting up the predictions consisted of writing tomorrow's forecast numbers with a squeaky flow pen on sheets of yellow (on the screen, B&W) paper pinned to a bulletin board.
Commercials were live as well. The most popular sponsor was Omar Bakery; they brought cakes and pies and what-not in to show off, which the stage crew demolished afterward. There was also a live "nature" show afterwards, with, iirc, Don Mack, who sometimes brought in live animals. Which a couple of times got loose in the studio -- once, an eagle. Dad said he was wondering, all the while he was doing his delivery under the hot lights, why the cameramen kept looking up to the ceiling and cringing...
His predictions were pretty good, being based on a profound understanding of the physics of weather. For a while, I was once told, some of the SAC pilots at nearby Lockbourne Air Force Base were calling him up in preference to their own service, till their security people caught up with them and made them stop.
Ta, L.
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Jun 11, 2015 05:46PM
Just wanted to mention I had to send this on to my Mom, who was living in Bexley during that period. She spoke fondly of watching your father on the news when I got this to her.
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I see a resemblance between you & your father, particularly your eyes.
Jane wrote: "I see a resemblance between you & your father, particularly your eyes."Looking at that photo, I realize he was younger then than I am now -- mid-40s, and I am now in my mid-60s. Very strange, that.
Ta, L.
