Have you lived in a Hello News town?
From 1978 through about 1990, dozens of TV stations in markets as large as Dallas, Texas and as small as Joplin, Missouri used a music package called Hello News to open their news programs. News-theme fans (yes, there really are news-theme fans) generally agree that it is one [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Down the Road’
16 July 2009
Vintage TV: Hello News
6 July 2009
What if they built a bridge and nobody ever drove on it?
Here’s a weird one – a bridge along US 50 in southwestern Illinois that has an unused twin!
Here it is, up close and personal.
There are actually four such bridges along this 21-mile stretch of US 50 between Carlyle and Lebanon. The State of Illinois built them in about 1973 anticipating a four-lane divided highway that [...]
