Over the years, Casey Jones sold various products including the Casey Jones Joke Book, a Casey Jones railroad hat, and more. In the early sixties, he offered a Casey Jones Railroad Watch, which was an actual pocket watch produced by Ingraham. The price was a hefty $3.95, which would translate to about $32 in […]
In 2007, KARE-11 offered a set of pressed pennies in their Minnesota State Fair booth. One of these featured Casey Jones. If anyone has a spare to share, let me know! More info on these can be found on the Penny Collector site.
The Calhoun Beach Manor was the home of WTCN, Channel 11 from the early 1950’s until the early 1970’s. Lunch with Casey was broadcast daily from the studios, along with other programs including Popeye and Pete, All Star Wrestling, Mel Jass, and What’s New. Construction on the building started in 1928 but was not completed […]
Channel 11 used the Kidsville name to brand their children’s programming sometime in the early or mid 60’s. Kidsville programs included Casey Jones, Dave Lee and several others.
This album was released after Lunch With Casey ended. It includes some of the material that aired repeatedly on the television show. It came with a coupon for a kids meal at Uncle John’s Pancake House.
This is an early book from Roundhouse.
This is dated 1964.
This book was published sometime around 1970. It features photos, poems and other writings for young kids. Roundhouse gave me a copy of the book when I visited the show in 1972. Every copy I have seen has been autographed by Roundhouse like the one shown below.