Posts Tagged ‘Al Hinderstein’
The Money Room: How I Got There
John Kerr: Having finished college in 1960, I locked my Ideor racing bike to a post near Tech Drugs and climbed the stairs at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.
Read MoreOctober 14, 1961: That Fateful Day
“Wake up, wake up! Channel two is on fire and has just burnt to the ground.”
Read MoreThe foundations of WGBH: 84 Mass. Ave.
From Don Hallock: Many extraordinarily-gifted figures and luminaries of the day — in the arts, science, politics and education — found their ways into the halls and studios of the original WGBH-TV/FM studios at 84 Massachusetts Avenue.
Read MoreLights, Camera, Auction! — In the New Western Avenue Studios
From Dan Beach – Studio 8H Website Design WGBH Auction with David Ives. The ubiquitous Al Hinderstein mans the Auction Cam. Playboy Bunnies and their “bodyguard” await cue to go on auction. (c 1965) From David Atwood — 12/5/2007 Those auction pix had to be 1966 or later. I came to GBH in the fall…
Read MorePhotos from Al Hinderstein — 1961-64
Text from Don Hallock The inimitable Hindy lensing a camera at Brandeis University for Prospects of Mankind. (June 1961) Hindy as the acting film manager, timing tapes in the tape room down in the basement of the Catholic Television Center. (August 10, 1962) Al says: “This is MIT Science Reporter at the Cambridge Accelerator Lab.…
Read MoreFriends in Need (1962)
From the Boston Sunday Globe TV Week — April 29, 1962 From the collection of Al Hinderstein Dave Davis and Greg Harney on the far right, Hindy with the camera on the roof of the bus. (This picture was taken at the 84 Mass. Ave. site. That’s the charred TV master control console in front…
Read MoreTony Saletan’s What’s New Specials (1960s)
When Don rolled tape and I cued him, the “miller” walked right up to the camera lens — imagining somehow that it worked like a microphone — and said his line. All we got was a mouth full of gums. He didn’t have any teeth!
Read MoreThe MIT Professors (late 1950s)
From Don Hallock — 2000 Though this story isn’t strictly about television, it was making the rounds of MIT during the late ’50s, and found its way into the studio at 84 Mass. Ave. where I heard it. Our little tale concerns the devastatingly brilliant, and notoriously vague, Professor Norbert Wiener. Author of the landmark…
Read MoreThe Party XV
216. 217. Al Hinderstein, with Chas Norton and Andrea Sodano. 218. Unknown, with Werner and Patience Bundschuh. 219. David Atwood, Eleanor Jewett and Jeanne Irwin. 220. Kathy Rosen, Gene Mackles and Paul Solman. 221. Tony Kahn and Kathy Rosen. 222. Bill Charrette, Debra Thorburn, Eliat Goldman and (?). 223. Susan Dowling and Andy Griffiths. 224.…
Read MoreThe Party IX
155. (Back) Jo Madden, Susan Presson with (front) Moon Nimon and Paul Souza. 156. Thea Chalow, Eleanor Jewett, Bill Charrette and Eliat Goldman. 157. David Atwood and Connie White with half of Al Potter. 158. Peter Cook and Fred Barzyk with Sean Hallock. 159. Jeff Dunn and Peter Cook. 160. Peter and Sally Cook. 161.…
Read MoreQuo vadis WGBH (1946-2000)
From Don Hallock: It may surprise you to know how many places the station has called home. WGBH’s origins were in a converted skating rink on the second floor of 84 Mass. Ave. and the office spaces on the third, were the first home of WGBH from 1955 to 1961.
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