[BC] TV weather

[Gary Peterson]

>>I sure do miss the days when the TV weather man stood in front of a
chalk
board and drew the H's and L's.  Fronts and clouds, Highs and Lows.<<

" Heck, some of them could even write backwards onto glass that was
between them and the camera, with the local area maps etched onto the
glass.  Don Kent of WBZ-TV/Boston used to do that.  Others, like Tex
Antoine of WABC-TV/New York, used to draw cartoons during the weather
forecast.
Sid Schweiger "

One of our local stations (late 50s) had the outline of the U.S. and
individual states on glass between a nice looking "weather girl" and the
camera.  If you didn't care about the weather, the view was nice anyway.  I
wondered how she could write so well backwards.  It turns out that she was
writing normally from her side of the glass.  The camera (Sarkes-Tarzian,
IIRC) had been modified with a switch that reversed the scan, swapping left
and right.  Pretty clever, I thought.

Gary, K?CX
Rapid City, SD