[Healeys] 60 Years ago today

[Jim Lesher]

was that coronation June 2. 1952??? , supposedly it was on June 2, 1953

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMN48SdQJE

check it out



> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:26:27 -0400
> From: bjsbj8 at gmail.com
> To: rjswain at hotmail.com
> CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] 60 Years ago today
>
> Do you remember the gee whiz technology that was used to get the coronation
> on TV for is here in the US? As I remember, teams from one of the networks
> were filming the coronation in segments. A segment would be rushed to a
> waiting jet to be ferried over here, would be processed enroute and ready
> for TV when it arrived. As I recall, it was done in segments so that we
> were running only a few hours behind real time. It was the first time
> anything so  modern had been tried. I even remember watching.
>
> Bob Johnson
> BJ8
> On Jun 2, 2012 7:50 PM, "Rick Swain" <rjswain at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Queen Elizabeth II was crowned 60 years ago today. I remember listening
to
> > the
> > coronation on the radio of my Dad's '49 Mercury or '50 Ford as we drove
to
> > pick up some honey from a local producer. Soon after, each student in my
> > school in southern Ontario received a commemorative mug and coin. I still
> > have
> > both. I was in Kindergarten at the time. LBC content - this year is also
> > the
> > 60th anniversary of the introduction of the (Austin) Healey 100.
> > Rick Swain
> > www.classicmotorart.ca
> > full-colour drawings of your car
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