Small-town TV (was: WMUR)

[Kevin Vahey]

I will never forget the oddest Uncle Gus.

Gus would handle the booking of children himself and had this huge
folder in the announce booth. One day an entire Cub Scout group from
Waltham has the entire studio booked,

They never showed....

However the show had to go on so the tech staff became the kids....we
did the US states....the bouncing ball game and were interviewed.

Gus somehow kept a straight face throughout.





On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Doug Drown <revdoug1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Gus had that way with kids that Art Linkletter used to have.  I often
>  suspected that some of the kids on "House Party" and "Kids Say the Darnedest
>  Things" were coached by their parents (and I especially thought so in regard
>  to Bill Cosby's later version).  But with Uncle Gus, it was all spontaneous,
>  and he could banter with little children in a really wonderful way.  Thanks,
>  Kevin, for reminding us of that.  It's a happy memory.
>
>  -Doug
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
>  To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
>
> Cc: "Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>; "Bud Yacomb"
>  <outofthebusiness@gmail.com>; <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
>  Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:34 PM
>  Subject: Re: Small-town TV (was: WMUR)
>
>
>
>
> >I never saw Gus act nasty towards the children and at times he would
>  > really warm to an individual child.
>  >
>  > Gus worked M-F 11 to 7 doing booth, Uncle Gus and the weather. He made
>  > a nice living on talent fees from Atlantic and Aubichon Hardware. He
>  > would always remind the GM that they were HIS accounts not WMUR's.
>  >
>  > The show he enjoyed the most was Santa Claus which had a huge audience
>  > into Boston.
>  >
>  > He was a good guy overall.
>
>