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Title: KRCA's dance, carnival hosts Valley teen-agers
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Willard Lewis Waterman was born on August 29, 1914. He was a character actor in films, TV and on radio, best known for succeeding Harold Peary as the title character of "The Great Gildersleeve," a radio program, at the height of that show's popularity. Waterman also starred in the 1955 television version. He died on February 2, 1995.
Photograph caption dated July 13, 1955 reads "William (sic) 'Gildersleeve' Waterman." The article partially reads "On Saturday night, June 18, KRCA held a combination dance and carnival to publicize the need for a San Fernando Valley Teen Center. Over 2,000 teen-agers and oldsters turned out for the three-hour event which took place on the grounds of the NBC television studios in Burbank."; See images #00124664 through #00124674 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00124673
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d029_f12_i32
CARL0005426469
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/56821
Subject: Waterman, Willard
NBC Studios
KRCA-TV (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Television actors and actresses--United States
Radio personalities--United States
Broadcasting studios--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Carnivals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Dance parties--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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