Heck Harper (Hector Vincent Flateau) and his Gibson guitar with a young
guest during the Bar 27 Corral on Portland’s KPTV.
 

The 1948 Gibson J200 guitar owned by Heck Harper is on display in The
Apple Music Museum of Rare and Vintage Music Instruments. The store
is located at 225 SW First Ave. in Portland.

KGW-TV, 1964

Spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue to honor E.C. Segar 
and his comic strip character Popeye for their positive influence on America’s
eating habits, making Popeye the first cartoon character to be immortalized in
public sculpture. 

E.C. Segar

The Firestone Air Chief radio, model 4-A-30

The Voice of Firestone, originally titled The Firestone Hour, is a long-running
radio and television program of classical music that first aired December 3,
1928 on the NBC Radio network. On Monday, March 22, 1948 it became
the first commercial radio program to be carried simultaneously on both
AM and FM stations.

Though mentioned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, the idea of daylight saving
time, advancing clocks forward one hour so that evenings have more daylight,
was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson and was implemented 
during World War ll.

George V. Hudson was an English-born New
Zealand entomologist and astronomer.

The Dial-a-President radio program, featuring President Jimmy Carter (above)
and CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, aired for the first time. It was the
idea of both Cronkite and CBS, a test-run to see if a show of its nature could
be successful. Approximately 9 million calls flooded the CBS switchboard in
New York during the two-hour broadcast. Nerveless, the program never
aired again.

Walter Cronkite