[PRCo] Re: ot Arthur Godfrey

[Fred Schneider]

You learned about Florida's summer misery in 1954, I discovered it in  
1956 and 1957.   Whole house air conditioning made live tolerable.

On Oct 6, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> My grandmother revered the man.  He could do nothing wrong.
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> He was an early promoter of the airline industry, as well.  I have a
> videotape of him extolling the virtues of Eastern Air Lines, and it  
> is said
> that he was responsible for making South Florida a year-round  
> destination
> (South Florida is where I learned all about humidity in the summer  
> of 1954,
> a couple months short of my 9th birthday).  Eddie Rickenbacher  
> appreciated
> what he did so much that he gave him a DC-3 when it came out of the
> airline's service in 1953 when the last of the Martins arrived.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> ROBERT R ROCKWELL
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 3:52 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways
> Subject: [PRCo] ot Arthur Godfrey
>
>
> Now of course anything goes on radio or Tv, but, in ye old days  
> shows ended
> either 29:30 or 59:30 after the hour. Godfrey on CBS radio was so  
> popular,
> he was the first person to be allowed to "run over".
> Robert Rockwell
> w3syt1 at msn.com<mailto:w3syt1 at msn.com>
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