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 […]
Casey’s Column for Kids was a feature in TV Digest, at least for a short time in 1969. This one page feature is from the August 16, 1969 issue. The cover highlighted the Minnesota State Fair, as did Casey in his message. Other brief articles feature Gale Gordon from the Here’s Lucy show, and singer […]
This article appeared in a St. Paul newspaper. I’m pretty sure it dates to spring of 2004 when KARE ran their Casey Jones 50th Anniversary Special. I don’t even remember being interviewed for this!
TV Times for the week of April 13-19, 1963 featured Roundhouse Rodney on the cover and included part 1 of an interview with Lynn Dwyer. Unfortunately, I don’t have part 2! Lynn Dwyer WTCN-11’s Roundhouse Rodney Conquered His Problems To Become a Top Athlete by ROY WIRTZFELD Part One of Two Parts Lynn Dwyer (“Roundhouse […]
Here’s a look at the Minneapolis TV schedule from April 1957. You can see that Casey Jones was a half hour show at noon on channel 11. A couple other things to note… Tel-A-Story was a childrens show at 9am on WTCN. This was directed by Roger Awsumb, as well as Romper Room at 11 […]
This ad sales sheet was used to promote the show to potential advertisers. This is from the collection of Patrick Sweeney
Ad sheets were distributed to potential advertisers to interest them in buying commercial time. This is from the collection of Patrick Sweeney
I believe this is from around 1960. After Joe the Cook left channel 11, Casey had this show at 5pm opposite Axel on channel 4.