40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

Donna Halper dlh@donnahalper.com
Tue Jun 19 03:37:45 EDT 2012


On 6/19/2012 2:30 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote:
> On 6/19/2012 12:28 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
>> When the move to 50 Morrissey happened exactly I can not pinpoint ( 
>> either 1959 or 1960 )
>
> According to Wikipedia it was early 1960.  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHDH-TV_%28defunct%29
>
>>  - but Bozo didn't happen until the move to Dorchester.
>
>
> But the same Wikipedia article says that Bozo began in 1959.
>

And this is one of those times when Wikipedia has it right-- while the 
character of Bozo was appearing at retail stores in the mid 1950s, the 
TV show debuted on 6 September 1959.


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