Old Vacation TV observations from way back

[Doug Drown]

>Who can forget Marty Engstrom
from the mountain with the weather and his signature
smile at the end!

Marty is still with us; he's been retired several years.  He had a big fan 
club, you know, and IIRC they had a celebration in his honor shortly after 
he got through.

>Even WCAX/3 from Burlington would show up from
time-to-time.

I was visiting some people in West Forks, Maine, one day a number of years 
ago; West Forks is between Bingham and Jackman, on the main highway to 
Quebec City.  They lived way up on a hill.  They had an antenna rotor and 
could get both WCAX, which came in very well, and CHSJ-TV in Saint John, 
which was quite watchable but a little snowy.  The two cities are close to 
500 miles apart.   Bangor, Sherbrooke and Quebec City came in as though they 
were next door.   -Doug