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- WXYZ Assignment Desk
An amazing crew!
Corinne Aguilar Back Row John Trafelet Mort Meisner Mike Russell Corinne Aguilar Front Row Pat Dennis Judy Miller Nelson Burg - WXYZ Picnic Circa 1994
- Bill Bonds with Corinne Aguilar
Photo by Wanda Doerner at Mr. Joe’s, Southfield, Michigan. Corinne wrote on Facebook, “It was on May 15th, 2009 the day before my 55th birthday.”
Wanda Doerner Bill Bonds and Corinne Aguilar - WXYZ GOP Convention 1980
- Always a Happy Family at WXYZ after glows
Curt Briggs Rich Fisher Corinne Aguilar Jerry Tarrien Dave Meinhard Photo courtesy of Corinne Aguilar - WXYZ Women In Black
Fans of the Soap Opera “All My Children”. Circa 1993.
Photo Courtesy of Corinne Aguilar Back Row Melissa Kuful Carol Hern Shelby Sanders Coleman Rita Joyner Rosemarie Russell Donella Crawford Karen Odell or Julie Roberts need help with identification Corinne Aguilar
Second Row Gayle A Moore Derengowski Michelle Kramer Annette Wallace McClendon Karen Simpson Barbara Shively Janet Shaffer TJ Elliot
Kneeling Dani Jacobson Gail Pebbles Suzanne Farris Jan Qualtiere Jackie Fitzloff Beverly CarrThanks to everyone who helped identify these folks – Terry Pochert
- Corinne Aguilar and Jeffrey Floyd
Always a cheerful group.
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Jeff and Corinne were chaperones for the Explorers Club 1270. They took a trip to Chicago to visit WLS. They say Oprah host the morning show before “she became famous.”
Recommended Reading
From Soupy to Nuts! A History of Detroit Television
Back in the 1940s–before coaxial cable from the East Coast reached Detroit–television was as local as Vernors, Sanders Hot Fudge and Hudson’s. There was room for clowns, bowlers, philosophers, journalists, adventurers, movie mavens, wrestlers and magicians.
The people who put these shows on were drunks, geniuses, thugs, heroes, artists, craftsmen, hustlers, and poets. Some were all of these things at times. A few were all these things before lunch.
As the medium grew, thousands of Detroiters visited Channel 4 to see Milky the Clown, danced on Channel 62’s The Scene or tuned in to watch bombastic anchorman Bill Bonds. With the evaporation of distinct local television, a piece of Detroit’s character disappeared.
From Soupy to Nuts! is a snapshot of Detroit TV history–from Sonny Eliot, Bozo the Clown, Bill Kennedy, Lou Gordon and Gil Maddox to Al Ackerman, Sir Graves Ghastly, Dick the Bruiser and Mr. Belvedere.
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