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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Why so blah?
Dad, you're looking a bit uneasy today. Are you feeling tired? Listless? Stressed out?
Got too much on your mind? Why don't you try to relax, think of something pleasant?
Got too much on your mind? Why don't you try to relax, think of something pleasant?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Bill and Joyce: '50s Miscellany and small mysteries
Just a few quick pictures. First, a staff photo from CFRA in Ottawa.
I suspect from the signatures that this was a farewell picture to Bill (the fella under the wall speaker) from his colleagues, with phone numbers to 'keep in touch', which would put the signatures (if not the photo) around 1958. (The photo itself looks like it was taken a few years before that). One person Dad did keep in touch with was Gord Atkinson, who would later become ... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Next, Joyce with her mother Margaret and step-dad Harry Wournell at their home in Nova Scotia.
Have they just returned from church? Or celebrating Joyce's 21st birthday? Both?
On the back there's a note: "The Three Musketeers". Judging from the date the roll was processed, March 1955, this was around the time Joyce was getting ready to leave the nest and head out to Hamilton, Ontario to find work. Did she already have the job at CHOK lined up? I don't know.
Speaking of jobs, here's a picture of Joyce spinning platters at a radio control desk.
It doesn't look like CHOK's control room, and the calendar says March 1954 (the picture might even have been taken on her 20th birthday). Was this in Halifax?
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I suspect from the signatures that this was a farewell picture to Bill (the fella under the wall speaker) from his colleagues, with phone numbers to 'keep in touch', which would put the signatures (if not the photo) around 1958. (The photo itself looks like it was taken a few years before that). One person Dad did keep in touch with was Gord Atkinson, who would later become ... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Next, Joyce with her mother Margaret and step-dad Harry Wournell at their home in Nova Scotia.
Have they just returned from church? Or celebrating Joyce's 21st birthday? Both?
On the back there's a note: "The Three Musketeers". Judging from the date the roll was processed, March 1955, this was around the time Joyce was getting ready to leave the nest and head out to Hamilton, Ontario to find work. Did she already have the job at CHOK lined up? I don't know.
Speaking of jobs, here's a picture of Joyce spinning platters at a radio control desk.
It doesn't look like CHOK's control room, and the calendar says March 1954 (the picture might even have been taken on her 20th birthday). Was this in Halifax?
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Playbills (1)
Not a lot of time to post today, so here is a selection of Players' Guild of Hamilton playbills involving Bill and / or Joyce.
The Sound Girl
Remember the girl in the CKOC control room?
That's Joyce Parker, who also ran the sound for Players' Guild productions and, in a pinch, did bit parts in some of the Guild's children productions such as "Robin Hood" (that's Joyce on the far right):
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Hamilton Players' Guild
Bill's main interest was acting. In fact he originally trained as a radio actor, but took up news reading because the paychecks were regular.
After he moved to Hamilton, he joined the Players' Guild, Canada's oldest continuously operated amateur theatre group.
There was a close affinity between the Guild and the local radio and television personalities and Bill wasn't the only one to get involved.
He made his debut in the 1959 season as "Yank" in "The Hasty Heart", with his good friend Frank Aldous.
He made his debut in the 1959 season as "Yank" in "The Hasty Heart", with his good friend Frank Aldous.
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