{"id":1405,"date":"2021-03-21T00:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T00:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2021-03-21T01:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T01:17:55","slug":"the-one-that-got-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/21\/the-one-that-got-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The one that got away"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had hoped to post some very happy news soon. But life, as it will, has other ideas. Let me explain.<\/p>\n

I keep an alert active on eBay for Garroway-related items. Most of it is run-of-the-mill stuff – old press photos, copies of Fun On Wheels<\/em>, etc. – and most mornings I just glance at it and then delete it. But one day last week I saw one of those listings that simultaneously made my heart leap, and sink. The reason my heart leapt? It was an auction for a kinescope of the December 6, 1952 episode of Your Show of Shows<\/em>, which Garroway guest-hosted while Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca were away.<\/p>\n

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At the very least, can I save the photos from the auction?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’d stumbled across articles about this while working on the manuscript. It was reportedly a good show, and Garroway brought back some of the offbeat stuff he did on Garroway at Large<\/em>. Such as the dentist sketch, where Garroway performed a dental procedure on the viewer, a bit so effective that it made one critic’s teeth ache.<\/p>\n

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There was no way I could pass this up. But I’ve tried bidding on kinescopes before, and I know they can be in demand. I also know the bidding can get high.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I knew I could end up spending more than I really wanted. But where else would I find this? And I also know how eBay works, and I’ve had enough items sniped from under me to know you can’t rest until the auction’s over. It felt like a fool’s errand, but I bid what I could afford, and I left it be. I tried not to think about it, but I couldn’t help myself and checked every now and again. Sure enough, another bidder swooped in and outbid me right before the auction ended, winning the auction for just a couple dollars more than my maximum bid. No kinescope for me.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Among the many things I won’t have answered now: Why on earth was Dave in this<\/strong> get-up?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m philosophical about it. As I said, I know how eBay works and I know how it gets used, and even if I hate the online auction format I know it’s part of the game, and I accept that going in.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> But, still, it bums me out to have lost out on this item, and I think you can appreciate why.<\/p>\n

I lost out, but I salute the winner of the auction, and I wish them happiness with this piece of history. And I have a request: Please<\/em> don’t sit on this thing. Please don’t squirrel it away. Please get it transferred and upload it to YouTube or the Internet Archive or something. It’s Garroway while he still had a lot of the Chicago School still in him. It’s a priceless document of a particular moment in television history and in Garroway’s life, and there’s a lot of folks who would really<\/em> love to see it. Please do us that favor. We would be grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had hoped to post some very happy news soon. But life, as it will, has other ideas. Let me explain. I keep an alert active on eBay for Garroway-related items. Most of it is run-of-the-mill stuff – old press photos, copies of Fun On Wheels, etc. – and most mornings I just glance at … Continue reading “The one that got away”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival-finds","category-nbc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}