The History of the Boston Bruins

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There were 2 big exceptions - CBS wanted Lucy to do her show live from New York and Desi Arnaz fought for California and in the end, Desi had to pay the extra cost of filming but in return, CBS gave him the rights to reruns which the network thought were worthless - :oops::rolleyes:

Over at NBC the network decided to film Groucho's quiz show because they were scared to death of putting him on live :laugh:

Luckily the filmed show survived - barely

The Day My Grandfather Groucho and I Saved ‘You Bet Your Life’

This story has to be BS:

As everyone lifted their glasses, Marcel Marceau turned to my grandfather and asked, “Groucho, if you don’t mind, is it okay if I mime the wine?

Everyone knows Marcel Marceau didn't speak! :sarcasm:
 
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Ed Note: Any further 60s/70s pix of this quality, please to post.

Also, if you've never seen it, there was a great book, simply titled "Hockey," with fab pix from that era. The cover features a prone Bobby Hull, nose literally on the ice, while an "inset" inside (sic) shows how the unhappy altercation developed. Unhappy for the Golden Jet.

Hockey by Gerald Eskenazi Special Photography by Ken Regan 1969 BOBBY HULL | eBay

I got this book from my elementary school library's book sale as a fifth-grader and still have it. Beautiful book.
 
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I got this book from my elementary school library's book sale as a fifth-grader and still have it. Beautiful book.

There's another one, titled "The Ice Men," circa '72 or so, that's also a fine pictoral of the era.

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December 8, 1924 - The first time the Montreal Canadiens played in Boston.

Fans were encouraged to bring their skates
 
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It was the first-ever Bruins game against the Montreal Maroons and station WBZ (Springfield, MA) carried it. Notice how the listing was staggered for each period. The listing said it was a NHA game.

Toronto started airing Maple Leaf games in 1923.


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During the 1954-55 season, the Bruins started home games at 9 PM.

The reason was simple - they could NOT compete against TV which by then most people had a set. Bruins home games were usually on Sunday and Thursday nights - They could not compete against Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan and Groucho Marx.


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Hard to imagine starting at 9 even on weekends. A multiple OT playoff game would be insane
 

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Hard to imagine starting at 9 even on weekends. A multiple OT playoff game would be insane

Games were a lot shorter then, too. 10-minute intermissions and no TV timeouts often meant the game would be played in less than two hours.

(Today's intermissions are 18 minutes and there are 6 2:00 TVTOs per game, for another 18 total minutes).
 

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I had to look up what the Bruins acquired for Dryden. The NHL trade and draft market was a much different place then. It was basically a swap of 1964 draft picks. Boston moved players chosen 2nd and 14th overall (Alex Campbell and Ken Dryden) for the players chosen 12th and 18th overall (Guy Allen and Paul Reid) less than 3 weeks after the draft. It should be noted these kids were 16 and 17 years old at the time.

None of the other 3 players involved ever played a game at the NHL level. Or came close.

How different were things back then? Dryden didn't find out until the mid-70s he was actually drafted by the Bruins. Paul Reid didn't find out until 2002, nearly 40 years later, when he was apparently informed by some fans.

Another funny fun fact, it was Sam Pollock's very first deal as Montreal GM.
 
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Down here on Long Island we used to get the Bruins games on WGBH, I want to say channel 19 but I'm not sure. Great games and a joy to watch.
One of the things that has always eluded me is the earliest the Bruins played... not year but time of day. I've tried searching but with no luck as it's quite a daunting task trying to find start times. If anyone could help me out with this and lead me in the right direction I'd be extremely grateful. I'm tempted to say there was an 11 am game but I don't know if it was a rebroadcast or poor memory on my part.
*early to mid 80's, mostly on Sundays from what I think I remember.
 
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One of the first hockey games televised in the US was sponsored by a maker of hats (1947)

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Interesting that Sam Chase used the word web describing CBS. Wonder how common that term
was used in describing commercial communications
systems then?
 

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I had to look up what the Bruins acquired for Dryden. The NHL trade and draft market was a much different place then. It was basically a swap of 1964 draft picks. Boston moved players chosen 2nd and 14th overall (Alex Campbell and Ken Dryden) for the players chosen 12th and 18th overall (Guy Allen and Paul Reid) less than 3 weeks after the draft. It should be noted these kids were 16 and 17 years old at the time.

None of the other 3 players involved ever played a game at the NHL level. Or came close.

How different were things back then? Dryden didn't find out until the mid-70s he was actually drafted by the Bruins. Paul Reid didn't find out until 2002, nearly 40 years later, when he was apparently informed by some fans.

Another funny fun fact, it was Sam Pollock's very first deal as Montreal GM.

My first look at Dryden was in December 1966 when
Dryden played for Cornell against BU in a game of I think undefeated teams, shown on PBS here in Boston. Can't remember if the game was shown live or tape delay but thought it was played on 12\31\1966.
 
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My first look at Dryden was in December 1966 when
Dryden played for Cornell against BU in a game of I think undefeated teams, shown on PBS here in Boston. Can't remember if the game was shown live or tape delay but thought it was played on 12\31\1966.

Game was played on 12/30 and was seen on tape delay on 12/31

People may have been confused as Fred Cusick did the Channel 2 game with Bud Collins and he was also live on Channel 56 doing the Bruins from Detroit

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