Television Sets have come a long way since this small round Zenith TV c. 1950! The Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection archive envelope this photo was found in has Standard Auto written on it? Do you know where that store was in Talbot County? The first show I remember watching was Howdy Doody which ran from Dec. 27, 1947 until Sept. 24, 1960! Does anyone else remember Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown and “It’s Howdy Doody Time!”? Also a favorite was The Mickey Mouse Club which ran from 1955 to 1959! Experiments on televisions were first started in the 1920’s and the first electronic transmissions were in the late 1920’s and 1930’s. P. S. The gentleman in the picture has just been identified by his family as Richmond “Dick” Hill. Facts: “History of Television” Wikipedia.
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Bob Kopec says
I remember a show “Mister I Imagination” from long ago.
Louis Crouch says
According to the Queen Annes Record Observer Standard Auto was at 29 Dover Street in the 1930s, N. Aurora and Centreville Road in the 1940s and 1950s, and was renamed the B.F. Goodrich Store and relocated to Goldsborough and Route 50 in the 1960s.