Local Celebrities: WAS : [BC] TV weather

[Bob Barnswatts]

I remember growing up in Kansas and the weatherman got up and did the weather during the  noon news  then played the piano for 15 minutes to fill out the half hour from noon to noon thirty.  Probably just as well.  Elmer Childress was his name.  Wonder whatever happened to him on KARD-TV-3 Wichita.  How could anyone forget.

Speaking of that he was sort of a local icon, there was another guy Major Astro that did the cartoon show for the kids in the afternoon. I never missed Major Astro in the afternoon.  I searched on the net and find there are still Major Astro fanclubs.

What other kind of local celebrities have there been?  Every town must have had one or two back in the good old days.  Now no one stands a chance to become some local celebrity on the cheap like that.

-Bob.