Nobody rocks the head shot like 1970's-era news anchor Jim Gardner. Nobody.
Dude's still kicking it over at WPVI-6 after all these years. I had the pleasure of meeting Ron Burgundy Jim Gardner outside a function at Villanova University several years ago.
In between puffs on a Marlboro Light, he told my friends and I a story about his days as a student at Columbia University in the 1960's, when he was asked to join a brand-new a capella group that was forming on campus.
That a capella group later went on to become Sha Na Na. Could you imagine one of Philadelphia's most venerated news personalities performing doo-wop on stage with Bowser (and trying not to look conspicuously out of place at Woodstock)?
You are the man, Jim Gardner. Give my regards to Tits McGee!
[Photo copied from gallery on philly.com]
1 comments:
Looks like that was taken back in the James Goldman days. God, I miss Philadelphia.
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