On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> [snip] (The first few weeks were taped at another Teletape facility in > Manhattan, but "Clock" had to vacate for a new show called "Sesame Street.") > This is becoming a Ken Burns opus, and it's my turn to testify. My neighbor's cousin worked for Reeves (later Reeves Teletape) as a sound engineer on the Frost show. I was brought to the Little Theater to meet Art when I was considering going into television (in some capacity). He made it clear that I didn't need to go to college for that, just technical school, and that if I wanted to be a creative, this was the wrong path. For no reason that I can explain, Art and I stayed in touch, and I used to go hang out with him at the 81st Street Studio where Sesame Street and Electric Company were produced. (The facility is gone, replaced by a Staples and an apartment building, but the marquee remains, even though almost no one realizes what it is.) I'm older than the Sesame Street firsters, so wasn't the least bit traumatized when I looked up in the rafters and saw Snuffleupagus hanging there -- in two pieces. Art decamped for Los Angeles, and spent most of his last years doing what he called "bleeps and blonks" for The Price Is Right. End of detour. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
