JOURNALING:
Since 2006, our local newspaper has conducted a digital Easter egg hunt. Columnist Joe Blundo creates 10 riddles describing locations in and around Franklin Co. OH where eggs have been digitally "hidden." Participants figure out the clues and send their answers to the newspaper. The winner receives a small prize. While not competing in the contest, my sister and I have had a lot of fun figuring out the clues and taking pictures at each site. We've learned so much about the amazing city in which we grew up. I do layouts after each of the hunts. This is riddle #9 from 2017. "Winnie Waymarker," my "travel troll" enjoys appearing, either in a photo or digitally added, on all of these layouts.
MY KINDA TOWN #3. Monthly observations about the capital of Ohio (no, NOT Cleveland)
Steve McCoy, a native of Gainesville FL, was a pioneer in the early years of cable television, finally establishing Coaxial Communications in the 1970's with Columbus OH being their first major city. By 1999, he sold his business and established the Early Television Foundation and Museum in Hilliard OH.
Below [left] is an RCA Model 5 from 1953. RCA had started making prototype color sets in 1951 with the Model 1 and in 1954 broadcast the first network color program, the Rose Bowl Parade. [Right] This is the 2nd television set our family owned, in the early 1950's. My sister and I believe we saw a color TV program during a holiday time when we were very young. Could it have been this parade broadcast?
[next to 1929 TV] In 1929, Chicago's Western Television Co. made the first commercial television receiver, The Visionette. It was available as a kit for just under $90. The cabinet was $20 extra. The screen size was 1"x1".
[under picture of white TV] Our 2nd TV, converted to a storage cabinet.
Joe's Easter Egg Hunt
RIDDLE #9
In a town once called a station
Find an old-tech destination,
Displaying various tubes and tuners
That brought us Berle and “Honeymooners,”
Bike or drive to find Egg 9
In this electronic shrine.
ANSWER: Early Television Foundation and Museum 5396 Franklin St. Hilliard OH
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