1966 NBC 96% color nightly
 

Slide of 1966 Florida street scene with truck bearing NBC ad - "96% color nightly"

According to the seller, this is Florida in 1966, but exactly where, I don't know.
Anybody recognize the street?

Well, I spy w/me widdle eye a Caddy Limo in front of the tudor Falcon, & it looks like the lady is walking by a Lincoln Continental..And it COULD be another Caddy or Connie in front of the Vomit station wagon... W/THAT many Bucks-Up cars, it would logically be pretty swanky area.. The Caddy limos from 1959-65 all looked pretty similar, the "Greenhouse"-Window areas- stayed identical, w/the 1959-style huge wraparound windshield, but the lower body sheet metal changed w/the various model years. However, the limo kept its "Dated" styling in '65, when the rest of the Cads got all-new bodies. The Limo finally got concurrent styling in '66, resulting in one of the most elegant cars GM ever produced.

There's a 7 in the middle of the peacock and it looks like the call letters are WCKT, which was in Miami. It's on a Railway Express Agency truck (similar to UPS), so it must have been delivering packages.

OT but close to the REA truck noticed. My first job in bcstng was at a local CBS station in Sept, 1969. One of my jobs was to go to the local Railway Express Agency to pick up the "bicycle" of tapes of the Phil Donahue show once a week in our Chevy station wagon. The amazing thing to me after all these years is that shows were delivered by rail to obscure sidings in corntowns. Five new shows in on 2" tape via the "bicycle" and five old shows out on 2" tape to the next station on the "bicycle". Those Donahue shows could have been five weeks old by the time they aired. The REA station was south Rockford, IL was a time capsule. It was on some rail siding that served Chicago and was complete with the handcart on the siding with wooden wheels and iron rims. It was 1889 again. I was a rookie and thought this was the way things were done.

The limo looks very 1964 to me. Now back to our Miami location topic.

Great story! Wasn't Donahue taped in Chicago? Seems like from Rockford it would have been faster and maybe cheaper to just drive over and get them.

egrand, Donahue started out in Dayton, OH in the late 60's and moved to syndication in the 70's still from Dayton when the concept of the "bicycle" was new to move a weeks worth of tapes from station to station for daily air on a weekly basis. Syndication had been around for years for weekly shows like the Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid but they were weekly film shows. I stlll had to pick up the 2" tapes for daily tape shows. He moved to Chicago in 1974. By then I was not driving the Chevy wagon but was a local tv director.

BTW, that caddy sieries 75 is a 63 or 64

Googling around has not found it. "Florida exclusive shopping" found Lincoln Ave in Miami Beach, which is currently a pedestrian mall with no buildings like those in the slide. I tried "shopping arcade" because of the building named "North Arcade," and found Flagler Street in Miami, but again nothing like it. This whole block may have been rebuilt in the last 47 years.

64 to be precise. In front of the van looks like maybe another Comet, a 65 Riviera, a 66 Toronado, and a 59 Caddy. Beyond, that I'm not sure.

The date (processing) on the slide is Jan 66.

Googled Myers Luggage and got 329 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. That's not the same building, but they're still in business and use the same logo! They obviously moved since '66.

311 Worth Avenue, West Palm Beach Florida. Google Maps shows it quite clearly as the street in the OP's picture.

It was fun finding it!

Cheers,

The first year for that style of Falcon was 1966.

THANKS! I just sent email to Myers before seeing your post. Maybe they'll enjoy answering, anyway.

can't help noticing how much classier the lady is dressed in the mid 60's and how much cooler and varied the style of the cars were.

High price country in and around palm beach.

What did I tell youse guys, a few posts above ? The ONLY way to visually tell a 1964 Caddy 75 from a 1965 was the "3-ring" whitewalls that were OEM on the '65s.. Otherwise, they were IDENTICAL.. Caddy sold about 1500 or so 75 limos & sedans-the 75s had a partition & the sedans didn't-Thruout this era..

Old man Myers' obit gave up the address. Google is your friend.....Google is your friend....Google is your friend.....

Man, I used to love AltaVista, but Google reshaped things in web/image/patent and video search.


Cheers,

I live in West Palm Beach FL, and only about 5 miles away from Clematis Street.. I'm pretty sure that is my area.. The buildings do look alot like what is down that road.. Some parts have been torn down and rebuilt also.. Our NBC here is WPTV channel 5 and has always had those call letters since at least the 70s.. But that could be the island of Palm Beach, very wealthy people live there..

Received this email:

Hello Wayne,


The photo was taken on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Our store Myers Luggage was there for 50 + years and in 2000 or 2001 the lease was under sold from us. So we moved all our merchandise to our permanent location in west palm beach on 329 Clematis street which has been at this location being about 90 years in a few months! If you want to see where our store on worth ave used to be, go to worth ave and find the store called Trillion and we used to be 1 store building East of that store. There have been a number of revelations on worth ave since the photo was taken. When the lease was taken out from us my father Richard Myers ( who unfortunately passed away in Oct. of 2013 ) was not happy about it but a while later after he was thankful for it because the business on worth ave was drying up over time and right after we moved there was a year long renovations on the worth ave and after that was the 9/11 fiasco which brought worth ave to a near dead still for business since then.


Thanks again from Myers Luggage,
Toby Myers
561-655-6644

and this:

Hi,


Our store now going on its 90th year then located for 54 years on Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida 33480. Goggle Worth Avenue, PB, Fl for updates :-)


Hope this helps,


Mrs. Richard Myers

I don't know where that NBC 7 came from, but that was never a station in this area.. It's always been 5 here..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPTV-TV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSVN

Um, yes there was... NBC affiliate WCKT in the 50's/60s.....serving Miami/Dade and Ft Lauderdale.....tower is 56mi from Palm Beach.


Cheers,

And the "WCKT TV" is to the left of the bird in the close-up of the poster...

Well that makes since.. Miami's NBC is now 6 and It serves both Miami/Dade and Broward Counties.. 7 I think is now their FOX station..

The antenna in the picture is fairly high and is aimed in the right direction, but still, 56 miles - I wonder how snowy the picture was.

In the image you posted, I thought that was a high-voltage power line tower, and was feverishly looking for it on google maps. Mystery solved!

56 miles across flat terrain is considered suburban-fringe, per Channel Master's MATV guide, circa 1983, when I was schooled by them. I can't tell how many elements are on the antenna, but if it was a single channel antenna (common in MATV systems of that era), it may have been more than sufficient.


For years after the Channel Mastrer MATV class, I got a gift from the Channel Master rep each Christmas, never mind that I no longer worked for the distributor and was in the Navy.... :) The gift was usually something universal like a dictionary, an atlas, or a DayPlanner.


Cheers,

I sure enjoy seeing old photos like this! so many cars I well remember, growing up in the 60's, and I have always enjoyed looking at, or seeing photos of outdoor tv antennas, ever since I can remember. I recall, about 1966-67, when one of my neighbors had a shiny new "blue aluminum" antenna installed on their roof, with a rotator. I knocked on the door, and asked if she would make the antenna turn while I watched from outside! I guess I was never really "right!" I still recall the look on Mrs. Baird's face when I asked, but she made it turn, and I was thrilled! :-) I was 6 years old then.