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from Les Brown Apr 29, 2022
Duckpins for Dollars was recorded at a bowling alley in Warwick, Rhode Island on Sunday mornings. George Allen was the host. The remote truck was rented from WSMW-TV in Worcester, each Sunday after finishing the midnight-eight shift, I got overtime for picking up the U-Haul in central Massachusetts and driving it back to New Bedford. The truck came with no VTR. we'd load an Ampex 1200 weighing about a quarter ton, up the back ramp into the truck and head for the bowling alley. After the tapings, Chief Engineeer Maurice Wynne would spring for roast beef sandwiches and beer at a fast-food place near the airport. I was hungry and thisty after working from midnight until the taping was done early Sunday afternoon. The first beer always disappeared in one gulp. Maurice was impressed and always offered to keep buying so long as I could down ‘em that fast. Two were usually enough but he always bought the third one - just in case. There was one Sunday when the taping was delayed due to "technical issues" in the truck. In reality, someone had gotten their hands on a 2-inch taped copy of the movie "Behind The Green Door" - less said the better. It was being played in the back in the U-Haul for the crew while everyone else was waiting. from Jim Donnelly Apr 30, 2020 When I was first hired part-time (Oct 1974,) Lee Tanner scheduled me for this Duckpins for Dollars bowling alley Sunday morning task. At the last moment, he changed my assignment to the 6 & 11 news on Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays. I slept in the downstairs lounge on Saturday nights during my three months of part-time to avoid commuting to Waltham. at some god-awful hour on Sunday mornings, I used to hear the rumblings of the Duckpins crew, and much later in the day, I would see them unload the quarter-ton VTR back into the building, coming down a steel ramp from the rental truck. I was SO releived that I didn't get to to that gig. Instead, I rotated the zoom and focus cranks a few times on an already-set up studio camera for the 6 & 11 news. I didn't do a blessed thing between, except goof off. It felt like I got away with murder. |
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