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December 31, 2007

Blast from the Past

by AltHippo @ 1:15 am. Filed under Life in D.C.

I was poking around the internets looking for a history of various radio and tv stations in DC. The area around me includes the bulk of tv stations in the area, and from my place I can see a number of the transmitting towers.

What really surprised me was this site, that documents tv history of yesteryear, including shows that I remember as a kid. A young Jim Henson, anyone? (This has long been a beef of mine. Sesame Street is generally associated with NYC, while the neighborhood depicted is clearly upper 14th Street, NW. Well, that’s clear to me, anyway. Jim Henson was a DC native, and I recall his giving live puppet shows in Rockville when I was quite young. the website I link to includes a puppet tv show he did.)

Here’s the priceless bit. It’s from a show called “Claire and Co Co” that I recall watching when I was quite young:

Milt Wishard, who worked at Channel 7 from 1950 to 1993, recalls: “I was a cameraman on this show and Charles Gibson, (today an ABC anchorman and ‘Good Morning America’ host), was the floor director.

Co Co was a big standard poodle and when she dumped on the studio floor, Charlie had to do the cleanup honors. That’s called working in the trenches.”

I’ll forgo the obvious punchlines (e.g., later, Mr. Gibson co-hosted Good Morning America, where he performed a similar function for Joan Lunden) to note that he now makes $7M/year as anchor of World News Tonight.

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