Some trivia

[Les Sherwood]

Hi all.
Here is some trivia fyi.
Do you remember the TV show "Cr 54: where are you?" with offficers Frances Muldoon and Gunther Toody produced in 1961-63?
Do you know it was produced in a studio on Tremont avenue?
According an article in today's WSJ it was produced by Gold Medal studios in Tremont neighborhood that was all but destroyed when Robert Moses's Cross Bronx expressway was completed in 1963.
as i said this a bit of trivia for your thought.
Hope all is well.
Les

[Rich Burrell]

Incredibly, the physical location of the shows production was Biograph Studios at 807 E. 175th St., between Prospect and Marmion Avenues , one block south of the Cross Bx. Ineterestingly, there was an episode where the boys pulled over Hugh Downs on the newly built
Cross Bx. for a traffic stop. The studi , which had been established by Thomas Edison, was moved from its lower Manhattan location to this location in 1913. It stopped doing a lot of major films as early as 1916, but continued under a succession of different owners right up until the 60's. Eventually it became a location for TV production, although parts of major films were produced there, including A Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith in the 50's, in which he played a crooked southern politician named Lonesome
Rhodes (or Roads) !!!