Welcome! I spent 40 years working in broadcast television, and over that time I started saving things that I thought were cool, with either great production or historic value. The name of my channel -- VPR2B -- is the model number for an Ampex 1-inch Type C videotape recorder that was very popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s. At the time, 1-inch Type C was the state-of-the-art video technology, superseding 2-inch quadruplex tape which had been the defacto standard for broadcast and production since it was introduced in the 1950s.
I archived material on 1-inch Type C whenever possible, though many of my recordings were made at home on Betamax, VHS, or S-VHS. I present the clips here for historical value only, and hope you find some that bring back memories.
It’s weird to watch this. I grew up in Berkeley and was watching the game with my dad. Never actually saw this broadcast because we were all in the street. We did listen to the radio. My house and our neighborhood were all fine. Just terrifying. But I remember in the coming days watching in horror at what people went through. Side note. I am a huge Oakland A”s fan. I am devastated that they are moving 😢
Wilkins did a Miracle Autobody commercial ... a local Bay Area spot, where a beat up VW Bug drives in, and out comes a Lincon Continental or something ... oh well. I guess no one preserved that.
My family lived on a third floor apartment at 936 South Van Ness, SF. I was 13 years old and getting ready to watch game 3 of the World Series. I sat down with sandwich in hand and TV on when I first heard it before feeling it. I’ll never forget that LOUD rumble it made. It sounded like a train or tanks that kept getting louder and then the whole building started swaying on all directions. I stood up and completely froze. I couldn’t even yell. Our living room window was faced with a utility pole, and I couldn’t believe how it would disappear from view as everything shook. If that wasn’t bad enough, here I thought I was I home alone when out of nowhere my dad bolts out of his bedroom completely naked screaming "SHIIIIIT! SHIIIIT! “ sees, grabs me and we just held each other tight expecting for the worst. At the time my father worked the graveyard shift so he’d sleep during the afternoons, and to this day he still sleeps….naked. The City along with the whole Bay Area didn’t sleep that night not just because of all the aftershocks, but because we knew a lot of folks were still out there fighting for their lives. God bless all the first responders, citizens, neighbors and strangers. You guys are heroes and many lives were saved because of you.
4:40 God, I wonder how many people got annoyed here, thinking it was some tech problem, until they heard "I tell you what, we're having an earth-". Also, that cut in the audio was right out of a movie with that timing.
We live in the Monterey peninsula area which is 122 miles South of San Francisco but 45 miles South of Loma prieta we never got to see any of this coverage because our power was out for days, 35 years better late than never I guess.
NOW… AL MICHAELS IS NO ABC NEWS REPORTER, BUT HE DID TALK TO TED KOPPEL THROUGH MOST OF THE EARTHQUAKE COVERAGE FROM SAN FRANCISCO. THAT QUAKE HAPPENED EXACTLY 35 YEARS AGO. Kenneth Huang. 9/22/24.
Back when KGO and KCBS were radio stations worth listening to and actually provided a good public service. Bush and his doughboy had nothing useful to add.
Why on Earth did they have a copy of the Fresno/Clovis phone book inside the KGO studio? I mean, it would have made sense if they had a SF area phone book.
At 10:50, Lonnie Wong Looks Like An East L.A. Chicano Man By Wearing A Plaid Dress Shirt, White Shirt Underneath, Black Pants And Black Shoes! The 1990's Outfits Were Very Popular And Fashionable!
