Maine's Television Time Machine

Date1991

Can DescriptionsBroadcast version of Maine's Television Time Machine. // Created 01/02/1991. // General description: Selections from NHF's Bangor Historical Society/WABI Collection. Compiles WABI-TV, Bangor news and commercials from the 1950s and 1960s. Includes segments on civil defense drills, Miss Sea Goddess and the Potato Queen, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Penobscot River salmon, Richard M. Nixon on the campaign trail, Life Pack survival rations, Pappy's Kelvinator Food-a-Rama and The Gadget Master man. Footage shows political leaders and people on the street, great achievements and disasters, events of everyday life, sports and recreation, business, community and home.