moke57
10 posts
Jul 10, 2010
6:37 PM
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anyone remember channel 16 when it first started? there was a show on called kims cartoon clubhouse......showed pretty weird cartoons, i believe it was crazy cat cartoons........showed alot of 3 stooges also....i was madly deeply in love with kim (well, as much as a 10 year old could be). anyone know who she was or what became of her?
Last Edited by on Jul 10, 2010 6:39 PM
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Mikey
97 posts
Jul 11, 2010
8:15 AM
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(WKET???)
The studio was on East Stroop Rd, near the Wilmington intersection. It was a real mom and pop operation. Later, the building might have been a Cassano warehouse.
The building has/had a high bay in the back, On occasional Friday afternoons, in the mid-sixties, a gang of us young technicians at WPAFB would leave work early to be in the studio audience of "Friday Afternoon Wrestling." The matches were truly horrible, but immensely entertaining. The whole point, I think, was for the audience to heckle the rasslers, who would stop and heckle us in return!
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
Last Edited by on Jul 19, 2010 9:19 AM
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stick
9 posts
Jul 13, 2010
7:45 PM
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I can't remember the year, but one summer a bunch of us neighborhood kids would ride our bicycles to the station. It is a cool memory, we met the Sheik, Flying Fred Curry and many other of the great Wrestlers of the era.
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JeffN
311 posts
Jul 14, 2010
10:34 AM
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Didn't Channel 16 have ABC programming for awhile, then it went to, or back to, Channel 22? I remember the Big Time Wrestling shows they shot down at the studio. The Stomper and Wild Bull curry fought all the way into the parking lot.
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tuckerone
10 posts
Oct 13, 2012
6:31 AM
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I too had a crush on Kim, of Kim's cartoon capers I was 10 at the time also. I had a neighbor who's brother in law was related to one of the partners who owned the station, Kim was one of the partners daughters.
We went to wrestling and got a tour of the station I actually got to meet Kim ! LOL
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blue J
61 posts
Oct 15, 2012
2:44 AM
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Mikey- WKET was the student-run radio station at Fairmont West, which first signed on to the airwaves in 1975...if those call letters were used for channel 16 prior to that, I wasn't aware of it.
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Suddenly you were gone
From all the lives you left your mark upon
8/25/1967 - 7/23/1986
All I know is she sang a little while,
And then flew on
6/12/1970 - 10/15/2008
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joey m
23 posts
Oct 15, 2012
12:19 PM
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i worked at the station as a sales rep in 1968 & 1969. on fridays after we came in to turn our paper work in, our office was upstairs. the wrestlers all dressed up there. i would go out with the wrestlers who didnt have a match at the time and watch the current match in the open studio above. they were all really funny guys . but there was one guy and i cant remember his name but the other wrestlers told me to stay away from, they said he didnt have any sense of humor. i said hello to him one time and he just stared at me for about 20 seconds and just turned and walked away.
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luv my dayton
159 posts
Oct 22, 2012
3:28 AM
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Have no idea what I was doing back then but lived around the corner at intersection of Woodman, Wilmington and Stroop and never knew this until now. Could have been busy raising my family at the time and just didn't keep up with that stuff.PBS sure has come a long way since then.
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