Dick Knipfing Retires

In Albuquerque it is big news that THE ANCHORMAN, Dick Knipfing, has done his last regular newscast.  It was in the same building where he started in the tv biz 51 years ago.

Anyway, some of the best of times in my life were while covering the news and working with Ricardo at KOAT.  We worked in studios on University Boulevard.  The building has been torn down, but the memories live on!

Here ... a memory jog.

From election central with our party experts, Fabian Chavez and Jack Eastham

And from the front page of a weekly throwaway TV schedule then available at your local grocery store.

Senior Citizens of KOAT-TV   -  Huh?   That was back in about 1973...


Those were the best of times!

Route 66 High Sights

During a recent trip along I-40, the following were up in the air

The famous Cadillac garden started by the late Amarillo eccentric Stanley Marsh 3.  From the days of a cemetery of shiny glistening Cadillacs it has grown to an area of self expression.

This could have been my car.

1960 Coupe de Ville?

Remnants from spray paint "artists".

The leaning water tower of Britten

Drillin' Drillin' Drillin'

Oklahoma City TV tower.

There are no mountains, so they've got to build'em tall.

Cell tower, so we can be connected!

Around Amarillo - hundreds of these creatures marching across the panhandle.

Help us all!

US Seniors Open Golf Experience

Just returned from Oak Tree National in the rolling hills of Oklahoma.  That's the same place some of the world's best golfers 50 years and older competed in a USGA event.

Colin Montgomerie of Scotland won.

First of all, the golf course is fine, fine, fine.

 Second of all, there are some huge homes on the course

Third of all, golfers like Bob Tway live on this golf course

Fourth of all another picture of the golf course

Fifth of all, here I am working.

The USGA contracts with EventCorp to conduct a survey of those at the golf tournament.  This company has been doing this for years.  This year, the President of the company asked for my assistance.  Here I am, assisting.

The USGA Championship Office gets nightly reports on the findings of the day.  They have been known to make changes in traffic patterns for the public and other things that impact the viewing public as soon as they're made aware of a problem.

The report card for this tournament was terrific.  

The people of Oklahoma did OK!