A shanty town built by homeless people during the
Depression. It was named after President Herbert
Hoover who many blamed for the Depression.

Director Ridley Scott’s older brother is also a
Director…Tony Scott.

                                    1979

                                     1982

                                     2000

The first commercial use of Videotape in Television was
with the Ampex VRX-1000 video recorder, shown above.
The broadcast was Douglas Edwards with The News on
CBS. It was a telecast from New York to the Television 
City studios of CBS in Hollywood.

 
         Douglas Edwards, on the right, in the CBS- Newsroom.