My 2nd great granddad started Vogts meat.His First Business was with the Burke brothers in 1888!
@karencotton1827Күн бұрын
My fater worked at the Gage lab. Government blg. On Wyoming ave.
@jimnolt-TAC2 күн бұрын
Early TV holds great fascination for me, and this video revealed some facts I had fortten. I remember watching those Superman cartoons but I didn't remember they were part of a show hosted by Gene London and Willie the Worm. And I didn't know that Lee Dexter worked puppets on Pete Boyle's show. Thanks for an entertaining and informative video, Rick.
@prchristman3 күн бұрын
Being from Long Island, NY (north shore, Suffolk County), I can't add too much commentary on Philadelphia TV. But we received it in snowy bits and pieces in the 1960s. Especially in early morning hours. We'd lose Philadelphia pretty much after 7 a.m. Channel 6 was the best bet. Channel 3 was very often drowned out by Hartford's WTIC TV-3, and Channel 10 apparently had a weaker signal. It fought with Providence RI's TV-10 and beat out WJAR (Providence) maybe half the time. When we'd get Channel 10 at all. I must have picked up a bit of Lee Dexter. That fox-like character at 15:45 looks a bit familiar to me. Sir Guy de Guy? I read that online. My bet is that we got weak picture and no sound if we did get any part of the Dexter show. WFIL studios were next to the Philadelphia Arena on Market St. While doing sports research, I got ahold of an Arena newsletter announcing that TV was being installed there. Date: early 1940.
@andrewalden83644 күн бұрын
Clicked for images of the ballparks and was totally disappointed. Waste of my time!
@moviehouse201213 күн бұрын
Thanks for clicking, but note the title, "Shibe Park Stories"...I presented stories of Philadelphians involved with the ballpark, and how it impacted their lives. If you just want pix of the park, there are countless sites you can visit...
@gregorywolff59174 күн бұрын
Great memories. Thank you
@Brimp5556 күн бұрын
A long time ago, I had a boss who used to work for PHILCO and he told me that PHILCO created the barcode (which was new at the time). I've never heard anyone else mention this.
@Songwriter3767 күн бұрын
Wow. Memories. I went to jr high school with the Krass brothers 2 kids.
@Songwriter3769 күн бұрын
Omg! Forgot all about Bond bread!
@danielcamacho61239 күн бұрын
Richard Spector thank you for the video so many great times living in olney
@user-oy2xc7yf4i10 күн бұрын
Strawberry Mansion was the terminus of several trolley lines,they were the 3,7,8,33,39 54, and the Fairmount Park trolley. The last one converted to bus was the 54 in 1964. Smith’s playground was a wonderful part of my childhood. One has to remember Robin Hood Dell I saw Louis Armstrong there in 1970 I was 11 years old that summer. I say thanks for the memories.
@orbyfan15 күн бұрын
John Wesley Callison in the National League and John Wesley Powell in the American League might have been their respective leagues' MVPs if their teams had won pennants. It was Boog's injury, costing him 14 full games from Aug. 21-Sept. 4, that likely kept the Orioles from winning the flag.
@orbyfan15 күн бұрын
Although he dropped from 32 home runs in 1965 to 11 in 1966, Johnny still led the National League in doubles with 40, and improved his batting average from .262 to .276. That was the year the Phillies traded John Herrnstein, Adolfo Phillips, and a rookie pitcher named Ferguson Jenkins to the Cubs for a washed-up Bob Buhl and a past-his-prime Larry Jackson.
@stackj21415 күн бұрын
What great memories! Thank you❤
@akjag1716 күн бұрын
Back in the early 60s there ws a bowling show that featured MLB players in sort of a home run derby match-ups during the winter months. I recalled that Callison won a game by striking out the 10th frame coming from behind to win. In the interview Callison observed it was biggest strike out he had all winter.
@edbrown698516 күн бұрын
I watched those houses slowly sonk into the ground over the years.
@mrbill666619 күн бұрын
What about Playland Golf on RT1 below Cottman Ave? Next to Blvd Pools
@jeffreyslotnikoff400320 күн бұрын
Having grown up in Northeast Philadelphia, I also remember going to Food Fair with my mother for that week's food shopping needs. And before I was diagnosed as a Type-1 diabetic in 1967 (then it was referred to as "Juvenile Diabetes"), I ate more than my fair share of TastyKake Jelly Krimpets and Butterscotch Krimpets! Even as a kid, I was never a soda drinker; I preferred milk. Have you seen the ingredient lists to what passes today as TastyKake products? I shudder to think if that's what I was engorging myself with back then!
@johnjdevlin261020 күн бұрын
So many memories. Except for the Pearl, the Olney and the Star I saw movies in all of the theaters pictured. My local cinema was the Fern Rock featuring 25-cent Saturday monster marathons. Then with 22-cent tokens from the PTC we later branched out to the Crest, the Benner and the Esquire. Then downtown to the Fox, the Stanley, the Stanton, the Aldine and the Randolph.
@trailblazer104720 күн бұрын
Nobody should have moved.The nices houses now look at it.
@edbrown698523 күн бұрын
Every time I look at root beer I think of hires.i was Lucky enough to work at Canada dry when they delivered it.i was just 18 so my mom couldn't complain about how much soda I drank I drank so much hires I had a beer gut and didn't drink beer.
@cadaverdog142425 күн бұрын
I had Callison’s 1966 baseball card but I traded it to P.J. Boyd for Luis Aparicio. I think Boyd then traded it to Billy Thompson but I could be mistaken … if any of you are interested in the details please holler… I would be most happy to rack my brains to recall the precise details etc⚾️
@trailblazer104727 күн бұрын
I used to go to Bond bread with my Father on Market St.West Phila.Mid 60's?
@kenr470927 күн бұрын
Boy, did this bring back memories! A very, very happy time I remember everyone that you talked about. Thank you for showing us! 25:29
@mrbutch30829 күн бұрын
As a proud Philadelphian I appreciate this. Thank you for creating this. Two "fun facts" about West Philly girl Jeanette MacDonald - her most endearing co-star was Nelson Eddy (15:38) who was born in Rhode Island and began his earliest childhood in New England. However while still a young boy his parents divorced and Nelson went with his mother to Philadelphia where he grew up, went to school, had singing lessons and spent his young adulthood there. Nelson Eddy always considered Philadelphia his home town. Jeanette MacDonald's older sister Blossom MacDonald was an entertainer and actress in her own right. Using her married name - Blossom Rock - she is best remembered today for her character "Grandmama" on the TV sitcom "The Addams Family."
@jeffreyslotnikoff4003Ай бұрын
This will come off as a bit weird, almost hallucinatory... but I could swear that at one time tuning in at the beginning of The Wee Willie Weber Show (actually I'm not sure if that was the show's title) and seeing our Willie PUNCH out some guy just as he was walking toward his desk (podium?)! Admittedly, I was VERY young at the time... or perhaps it was just a dream... though why would a 5- or 6-year-old kid dream of such a thing?
@drobinson4617Ай бұрын
Your analysis of Johnny Callison's MLB career brought back memories of the 1964 Phillies collapse, when I started collecting baseball cards, and Callison losing his home run swing so early in his career. I also noted some additional ironies. A. Had the Phillies won the '64 pennant, Callison's walk-off, 3-run HR in the 1964 All-Star classic could have helped him win the NL season's MVP. Instead, 3B Ken Boyer of the St. Louis Cardinals won the ’64 season’s NL-MVP ahead of Callison. B. While losing AL manager Al Lopez watched Callison's game-winning HR, did Lopez regret his Chicago White Sox trading Callison to the Phillies 5 years earlier? C. Boyer's Cards also won that year’s NL pennant ahead of the collapsing Phillies, and the 1964 World Series. D. Neither Callison (HR hitter and strong-armed RF) nor Boyer (3B Gold Glove and RBI specialist) were selected to the MLB Hall of Fame. God bless you! ⚾⚾⚾
@edserembus9651Ай бұрын
Smelled bond bread when I was at futbol practice at cardinal dougherty 1966 -1970
@emcinc9654Ай бұрын
Wasn’t there a place near there had made the best sticky buns
@moviehouse20121Ай бұрын
Bucky's Sticky Buns at the Margaret - Orthodox El Stop.
@edserembus9651Ай бұрын
Worked at the Genoa fast food restaurant on Adam’s ave 1968
@kxngNaki1252immortalsoulАй бұрын
Philly in this jawn
@bobski7032Ай бұрын
I grew up 4th and wingohocking ..born 62 and I don’t ever remember the Felton movie theater being open as I could walk there but instead we all went to the Fernrock by bus
@bobski7032Ай бұрын
I remember going to the Bond bread outlet store in the 70’s my next door neighbor worked at Exide battery factory..around 1979 they built a mall on that site and Channel home store was the anchor and Mil lee’s Luv in made great omelettes ❤️
@howardschultzberg4263Ай бұрын
Thanks again for all you do !!! I didn't know Marian Anderson was from our home town. Larry Fine's mother and sister lived next door to my mother and her parents in West Philadelphia, in the late '30s. My grandmother told me when he visited, he would slick his "porcupine" hair back with Vaseline or something greasy....
@graceperez1281Ай бұрын
This is the area that my Mom lived in ,,,on Elston st, I never saw that house she lived in, but she always talked about loving that area she grew up in
@mrbutch308Ай бұрын
Our Gal Sal!!! Sally Starr!!!
@Dominos-el7qr7 күн бұрын
Love luck and lollipops. You get it, I know.
@patriciamvisnofsky4750Ай бұрын
Remember America Bandstand with Dick Clark my dad would rush home to see it favorite dancers was Conmie
@OldsVistaCruiserАй бұрын
Note my username. At 1:06, the background music is "In My Merry Oldsmobile"!
@jimnolt-TACАй бұрын
Another informative and interesting video, Rick. And I caught a glimpse of George Reeves there.
@moviehouse20121Ай бұрын
Thx Jim!
@phillychic2155Ай бұрын
Alot of Movie 🎥 Stars 🌟 Born In PhiLLy i Enjoyed all this Mr. Spector 🎥🌟
@glennso47Ай бұрын
Kukla Fran and Ollie was produced in Chicago by WMAQ TV.
@charlesflinnill978Ай бұрын
I'm a lifelong Balt fan. The '64 Orioles also fell apart in Sept of '64. They finished couple games behind Yanks. Only Brooks Robinson, the Eventual MVP was the only player besides SS Aparicio who carried the team.
@orbyfan15 күн бұрын
Boog Powell was a possible candidate for MVP, but he hurt his shoulder early in the Aug. 20 game vs. Boston, and didn't play again until he struck out as a pinch hitter in the 9th inning in Los Angeles on Sept. 5. Including those games and all games in between, the Orioles were 7-9, and they finished the season in third place, 2 games behind the Yankees and 1 game behind the White Sox.
@howardschultzberg4263Ай бұрын
This was wonderfully well done, and thanks for the memories rushing back.... I never knew Dick Lester (from nearby Havertown) had directed "Action In The Afternoon"... I was on-air at WDVR, WIOQ, and WWDB in the '70s, and having grown up with Philadelphia broadcasting, I was proud to have a small transient part in its history....
@Ripple9911Ай бұрын
Very interesting stuff
@rethaf4747Ай бұрын
I remembered those great memories in Philadelphia !❤
@jaydunno82662 ай бұрын
I saw Richie Allen hit one out of the park in the early 60"s.
@user-dr4mv9wm9r2 ай бұрын
As a teenager I remember when he played for the Yankees. I was very excited the Yankees got him… he tried but he was finished…..👍🏿
@louisb55632 ай бұрын
VERY informative!!!! ❤⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@user-oy2xc7yf4i2 ай бұрын
As a Philadelphian I have a soft spot for Tastykakes especially Kandykakes. Personally I thought Hires root beer wasn’t so great,I’m a Hanks man myself.
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My 2nd great granddad started Vogts meat.His First Business was with the Burke brothers in 1888!
My fater worked at the Gage lab. Government blg. On Wyoming ave.
Early TV holds great fascination for me, and this video revealed some facts I had fortten. I remember watching those Superman cartoons but I didn't remember they were part of a show hosted by Gene London and Willie the Worm. And I didn't know that Lee Dexter worked puppets on Pete Boyle's show. Thanks for an entertaining and informative video, Rick.
Being from Long Island, NY (north shore, Suffolk County), I can't add too much commentary on Philadelphia TV. But we received it in snowy bits and pieces in the 1960s. Especially in early morning hours. We'd lose Philadelphia pretty much after 7 a.m. Channel 6 was the best bet. Channel 3 was very often drowned out by Hartford's WTIC TV-3, and Channel 10 apparently had a weaker signal. It fought with Providence RI's TV-10 and beat out WJAR (Providence) maybe half the time. When we'd get Channel 10 at all. I must have picked up a bit of Lee Dexter. That fox-like character at 15:45 looks a bit familiar to me. Sir Guy de Guy? I read that online. My bet is that we got weak picture and no sound if we did get any part of the Dexter show. WFIL studios were next to the Philadelphia Arena on Market St. While doing sports research, I got ahold of an Arena newsletter announcing that TV was being installed there. Date: early 1940.
Clicked for images of the ballparks and was totally disappointed. Waste of my time!
Thanks for clicking, but note the title, "Shibe Park Stories"...I presented stories of Philadelphians involved with the ballpark, and how it impacted their lives. If you just want pix of the park, there are countless sites you can visit...
Great memories. Thank you
A long time ago, I had a boss who used to work for PHILCO and he told me that PHILCO created the barcode (which was new at the time). I've never heard anyone else mention this.
Wow. Memories. I went to jr high school with the Krass brothers 2 kids.
Omg! Forgot all about Bond bread!
Richard Spector thank you for the video so many great times living in olney
Strawberry Mansion was the terminus of several trolley lines,they were the 3,7,8,33,39 54, and the Fairmount Park trolley. The last one converted to bus was the 54 in 1964. Smith’s playground was a wonderful part of my childhood. One has to remember Robin Hood Dell I saw Louis Armstrong there in 1970 I was 11 years old that summer. I say thanks for the memories.
John Wesley Callison in the National League and John Wesley Powell in the American League might have been their respective leagues' MVPs if their teams had won pennants. It was Boog's injury, costing him 14 full games from Aug. 21-Sept. 4, that likely kept the Orioles from winning the flag.
Although he dropped from 32 home runs in 1965 to 11 in 1966, Johnny still led the National League in doubles with 40, and improved his batting average from .262 to .276. That was the year the Phillies traded John Herrnstein, Adolfo Phillips, and a rookie pitcher named Ferguson Jenkins to the Cubs for a washed-up Bob Buhl and a past-his-prime Larry Jackson.
What great memories! Thank you❤
Back in the early 60s there ws a bowling show that featured MLB players in sort of a home run derby match-ups during the winter months. I recalled that Callison won a game by striking out the 10th frame coming from behind to win. In the interview Callison observed it was biggest strike out he had all winter.
I watched those houses slowly sonk into the ground over the years.
What about Playland Golf on RT1 below Cottman Ave? Next to Blvd Pools
Having grown up in Northeast Philadelphia, I also remember going to Food Fair with my mother for that week's food shopping needs. And before I was diagnosed as a Type-1 diabetic in 1967 (then it was referred to as "Juvenile Diabetes"), I ate more than my fair share of TastyKake Jelly Krimpets and Butterscotch Krimpets! Even as a kid, I was never a soda drinker; I preferred milk. Have you seen the ingredient lists to what passes today as TastyKake products? I shudder to think if that's what I was engorging myself with back then!
So many memories. Except for the Pearl, the Olney and the Star I saw movies in all of the theaters pictured. My local cinema was the Fern Rock featuring 25-cent Saturday monster marathons. Then with 22-cent tokens from the PTC we later branched out to the Crest, the Benner and the Esquire. Then downtown to the Fox, the Stanley, the Stanton, the Aldine and the Randolph.
Nobody should have moved.The nices houses now look at it.
Every time I look at root beer I think of hires.i was Lucky enough to work at Canada dry when they delivered it.i was just 18 so my mom couldn't complain about how much soda I drank I drank so much hires I had a beer gut and didn't drink beer.
I had Callison’s 1966 baseball card but I traded it to P.J. Boyd for Luis Aparicio. I think Boyd then traded it to Billy Thompson but I could be mistaken … if any of you are interested in the details please holler… I would be most happy to rack my brains to recall the precise details etc⚾️
I used to go to Bond bread with my Father on Market St.West Phila.Mid 60's?
Boy, did this bring back memories! A very, very happy time I remember everyone that you talked about. Thank you for showing us! 25:29
As a proud Philadelphian I appreciate this. Thank you for creating this. Two "fun facts" about West Philly girl Jeanette MacDonald - her most endearing co-star was Nelson Eddy (15:38) who was born in Rhode Island and began his earliest childhood in New England. However while still a young boy his parents divorced and Nelson went with his mother to Philadelphia where he grew up, went to school, had singing lessons and spent his young adulthood there. Nelson Eddy always considered Philadelphia his home town. Jeanette MacDonald's older sister Blossom MacDonald was an entertainer and actress in her own right. Using her married name - Blossom Rock - she is best remembered today for her character "Grandmama" on the TV sitcom "The Addams Family."
This will come off as a bit weird, almost hallucinatory... but I could swear that at one time tuning in at the beginning of The Wee Willie Weber Show (actually I'm not sure if that was the show's title) and seeing our Willie PUNCH out some guy just as he was walking toward his desk (podium?)! Admittedly, I was VERY young at the time... or perhaps it was just a dream... though why would a 5- or 6-year-old kid dream of such a thing?
Your analysis of Johnny Callison's MLB career brought back memories of the 1964 Phillies collapse, when I started collecting baseball cards, and Callison losing his home run swing so early in his career. I also noted some additional ironies. A. Had the Phillies won the '64 pennant, Callison's walk-off, 3-run HR in the 1964 All-Star classic could have helped him win the NL season's MVP. Instead, 3B Ken Boyer of the St. Louis Cardinals won the ’64 season’s NL-MVP ahead of Callison. B. While losing AL manager Al Lopez watched Callison's game-winning HR, did Lopez regret his Chicago White Sox trading Callison to the Phillies 5 years earlier? C. Boyer's Cards also won that year’s NL pennant ahead of the collapsing Phillies, and the 1964 World Series. D. Neither Callison (HR hitter and strong-armed RF) nor Boyer (3B Gold Glove and RBI specialist) were selected to the MLB Hall of Fame. God bless you! ⚾⚾⚾
Smelled bond bread when I was at futbol practice at cardinal dougherty 1966 -1970
Wasn’t there a place near there had made the best sticky buns
Bucky's Sticky Buns at the Margaret - Orthodox El Stop.
Worked at the Genoa fast food restaurant on Adam’s ave 1968
Philly in this jawn
I grew up 4th and wingohocking ..born 62 and I don’t ever remember the Felton movie theater being open as I could walk there but instead we all went to the Fernrock by bus
I remember going to the Bond bread outlet store in the 70’s my next door neighbor worked at Exide battery factory..around 1979 they built a mall on that site and Channel home store was the anchor and Mil lee’s Luv in made great omelettes ❤️
Thanks again for all you do !!! I didn't know Marian Anderson was from our home town. Larry Fine's mother and sister lived next door to my mother and her parents in West Philadelphia, in the late '30s. My grandmother told me when he visited, he would slick his "porcupine" hair back with Vaseline or something greasy....
This is the area that my Mom lived in ,,,on Elston st, I never saw that house she lived in, but she always talked about loving that area she grew up in
Our Gal Sal!!! Sally Starr!!!
Love luck and lollipops. You get it, I know.
Remember America Bandstand with Dick Clark my dad would rush home to see it favorite dancers was Conmie
Note my username. At 1:06, the background music is "In My Merry Oldsmobile"!
Another informative and interesting video, Rick. And I caught a glimpse of George Reeves there.
Thx Jim!
Alot of Movie 🎥 Stars 🌟 Born In PhiLLy i Enjoyed all this Mr. Spector 🎥🌟
Kukla Fran and Ollie was produced in Chicago by WMAQ TV.
I'm a lifelong Balt fan. The '64 Orioles also fell apart in Sept of '64. They finished couple games behind Yanks. Only Brooks Robinson, the Eventual MVP was the only player besides SS Aparicio who carried the team.
Boog Powell was a possible candidate for MVP, but he hurt his shoulder early in the Aug. 20 game vs. Boston, and didn't play again until he struck out as a pinch hitter in the 9th inning in Los Angeles on Sept. 5. Including those games and all games in between, the Orioles were 7-9, and they finished the season in third place, 2 games behind the Yankees and 1 game behind the White Sox.
This was wonderfully well done, and thanks for the memories rushing back.... I never knew Dick Lester (from nearby Havertown) had directed "Action In The Afternoon"... I was on-air at WDVR, WIOQ, and WWDB in the '70s, and having grown up with Philadelphia broadcasting, I was proud to have a small transient part in its history....
Very interesting stuff
I remembered those great memories in Philadelphia !❤
I saw Richie Allen hit one out of the park in the early 60"s.
As a teenager I remember when he played for the Yankees. I was very excited the Yankees got him… he tried but he was finished…..👍🏿
VERY informative!!!! ❤⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
As a Philadelphian I have a soft spot for Tastykakes especially Kandykakes. Personally I thought Hires root beer wasn’t so great,I’m a Hanks man myself.