Roundhouse Rodney made an appearance at the grand opening of the Cedarville Shopping Center in Burnsville. This would have been March 23, 1968. The bunny wasn’t the Easter Bunny, but rather, the Eagan Volunteer Fire Bunny, who was promoting a dance.
An article in the Minneapolis Tribune, dated May 5, 1967, provides a glimpse at the various local children’s programming in 1967. I don’t have the full article, but these excerpts provide some great commentary on these shows. “Lunch With Casey” and “Clancy the Cop” are described as the most popular locally produced children’s shows. “Neither […]
Roundhouse appeared at the Wynona Steamboat Days Kiddie Parade on July 5, 1974
From November 1968, Casey and other Twin Cities kids show hosts made personal appearences at the new Shoppers’ City store in Columbia Heights. Thanks to Jeanne Anderson for this
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. […]
Here’s a rare clipping from 1958. Roger Awsumb and his wife Paula and daughter Nancy boarding a train for a vacation in Seattle. This was published in The North Coaster, a newsletter for the Northern Pacific Railway, dated May-June 1958.
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 […]
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 […]