A shanty town built by homeless people during the
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Hoover who many blamed for the Depression.
Archive for November 30th, 2010
30
Nov
PORTLAND’S ‘’HOOVERVILLE’’ ~ 1936
30
Nov
IT’S RIDLEY SCOTT’S 73rd BIRTHDAY TODAY
30
Nov
FIRST USE OF VIDEOTAPE ON THIS DATE IN 1956
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.
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