Johnny Kumpula shared these pictures of a can of Billy Boy Syrup with a Casey Jones promotion attached. As best I can tell, this dates to the late 50’s. Information about Billy Boy Syrup is hard to come by. I found a couple newspaper ads dating from 1959. It was produced by William Barnes, Inc. […]
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Casey Jones on vacation in 1958
Lunch With Casey in TV Guide 1961
This advertisement appeared a couple times in TV Guide in 1961-62. At some point in 1961, the Casey Jones program moved from the 5PM slot back to it’s traditional 12 noon time slot. This is when the show name officially became “Lunch With Casey.” Casey’s show started in 1954 at noon and held that slot […]
Casey Scores with Mama – TV Guide – 1954
Here is a very early article about Casey Jones and the Noontime Express from TV Guide in July or August 1954. The program had just debuted in June 1954 and already was very popular. Casey asked viewers to mail in letters about “what they liked to eat” and quickly received 2000 responses. Many of the […]
Casey’s Column for Kids! – TV Digest, December 14, 1968
Lunch With Casey Cancellation
Lunch With Casey Revisited – June 1993 article
From the MilleLacs Messenger website Lunch With Casey Revisited by Colleen Ziwicki originally published June 23, 1993 He was the baby boomers’ childhood hero. It was the 1950s and 60s and most mothers knew that lunchtime was synonymous with more than peanut butter sandwiches. The Casey Jones express arrived on track 11 every noon hour […]
Casey Jones and “The Right Track to Safety”
Here is an article published in the Milwaukee Road magazine in 1969. The railroad produced a film to promote safety and is was broadcast on Lunch With Casey. Highlights from the article: The safety story was told this summer by television’s “Casey Jones,” Roger Awsumb, whose “Lunch With Casey” program is broadcast daily except Saturday […]