Recognize them?
Channel 11 wasn't the only game in town. For years, these familiar faces popped into our living rooms via the television set. See if you can name them:
1 One of the first female newscasters on Tucson TV, she went to work at KVOA-TV, Channel 4, in 1965, where she anchored a women's report and also hosted "Dialing for Dollars," randomly calling people up and offering a prize.
In 1973, she moved to KOLD-TV, Channel 13, anchoring the 5 o'clock weeknight news. She left KOLD in 1987, taking on a series of public-relations jobs.
2 Known as "The Old Weather Wrangler," he forecast the highs and lows for more than two decades at KVOA-TV, Channel 4, beginning in 1977.
A self-taught weatherman, he introduced viewers to the mythical "stick lizard" — known for climbing onto sticks whenever its little feet got too hot.
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And it wasn't officially the weekend until his Friday night "whoopee," complete with bouncing Styrofoam bits.
After retiring in 1998, he resumed his weathercasting duties in 2000 over at KGUN-TV, Channel 9, but retired again after a couple of years.
3The zany host of "Cartoon Corral," he doodled his way into the hearts of thousands of Tucson youngsters from the mid-1950s to 1963 over at KVOA-TV, Channel 4.
He was also known for his cartoon panels that ran with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's column by George L. Mountainlion, published in the Arizona Daily Star.
Though "Cartoon Corral" headed for its last roundup in 1963, he stayed on as the station's art director, retiring in 1982. He died of bone cancer in 1993.
4 A Tucsonan since the age of 7, she landed her first news job in 1971 at KOLD-TV, Channel 13.
Two years later she moved to San Diego, where she wound up ducking a typewriter thrown by anchorman Harold Greene, the model for Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy in "Anchorman."
In 1975, she returned to Tucson and a 30-year career anchoring the news at KVOA-TV, Channel 4.
Perhaps the first visibly pregnant anchor in the country, she got through motherhood, a divorce and replacement by a younger woman in 2005.
After an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2006, she moved the following year to Wisconsin with her husband.
Answers
1. Sue Green; 2. Michael Goodrich; 3. Charles Amesbury, aka Chuck Waggin; 4. Patty Weiss
