It’s always wonderful to find new memories of Casey and Roundhouse. Bruce Kivi sent me a link to this old home movie footage from 1969. Casey and Roundhouse appeared at the opening of Bob’s Produce at University and Osborne in Fridley, MN. The video is low res, but pretty amazing! Bob’s Produce is a local […]
Music was always a big part of Lunch With Casey. Casey and Roundhouse would often mime to popular novelty songs of the time. Unfortunately, only a small handful of these performances have survived, but we have been able to identify many of the songs performed on the show. And thanks to YouTube, we can build […]
Casey’s train sits at the Jackson Street Roundhouse, undergoing restoration. This feature shows the work being done back in 2007, and features interviews with Robert Aswumb, the son of Casey, and Al DeRusha, who directed Lunch with Casey. This engine sat at Como Park for years, before moving to the museum. Casey was filmed sitting […]
When people remember Lunch With Casey, they often recall Oswald, a charactor portrayed by Roundhouse Rodney (Lynn Dwyer). Oswald was goofy and bizzare, and often frightening to young kids. When Casey released his video in 1991, he briefly talked about Oswald. Here is that clip, along with a couple brief jokes from Oswald. The Oswald […]
Here’s a rare promotional video featuring Casey Jones and promoting school bus safety. This was a professionally produced video, recorded at Osseo Elementary School, most likely in January 1985. Roger Awsumb appears as Casey Jones, along with his sidekick, Jim Barber as Charlie Caboose. At this time, Casey Jones’ Express was airing on Channel 29 […]
Roundhouse Rodney put together this little film tour of the Tonka Truck factory in Minnetonka Minnesota. The clip is a film transfer from a video tape episode of The Roundhouse Rodney Show, which ran on KTCA, channel 2, in the mid-seventies. I suspect this clip was prepared for the Tonka company. The film […]
Lunch With Casey went off the air at the end of 1972. No complete programs survive. There are about and hour or two of clips that have been preserved. However, at least one audio recording has been preserved. On December 27, 1972, a young woman named Linda Vesta held a tape recorder to her television […]
Every so often you run into something really cool. Here is an old TV commercial featuring Roger Awsumb as Casey Jones and Daryl Laub as T.N.Tatters. This dates to 1983. Daryl Laub played Skipper Daryl and J.P. Patches on WTCN from 1954-55 where he worked with Roger Awsumb. He then moved to KSTP and the […]