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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DrBear on September 25, 2007, 02:21:24 PM
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Let's see if this is really a two- or three-item list.
Places that are named after game show hosts. I can only think of two (and by "places" I mean things that can be marked on a map or that you can stand in - not, say, Matt Ottinger's star on the Walk of Fame.
1. The easy one - The Bob Barker Studio at Television City in Hollywood.
2. Johnny Carson Park, across from NBC-Burbank.
If you want to add hosts of pilots, there's
3. The David Letterman Communication and Media Building at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.
Anyone else?
Note to wise guys: Anybody mentioning the (Betty) White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fleming), or (Pat) Finn-land will be slapped with a restraining order or an autographed picture of Randy West.
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Took some research but I came up with three more...
Ray Combs Avenue (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=827\") in Hamilton, Ohio (PDF (http://\"http://www.hamilton-city.org/Tax/StreetListings/StreetList_Hamilton.pdf\"))
The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (http://\"http://asu.edu/clas/communication/\") in Arizona
Ralph Edwards Riverside Park (http://\"http://www.nmmagazine.com/NMREGIONS/swtruthorconsequences.html\") in NM
EDIT: One more, and I know it's a stretch...
Pamela Wallin Drive (http://\"http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009968\") in Wadena, Saskatchewan
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'164757\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 11:21 AM\']Note to wise guys: Anybody mentioning the (Betty) White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fleming), or (Pat) Finn-land will be slapped with a restraining order or an autographed picture of Randy West.[/quote]
I resemble that remark! ;-)
I'll add the Mark Goodson wing at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. It's near the corner of George Burns and Gracie Allen. (Yes, Mr. Goodson did host several of his shows on several occasions).
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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On the second floor of the Paley Center, there's a room named after Mark Goodson. I can't remember the exact details, though...
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[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'164760\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 02:40 PM\']
On the second floor of the Paley Center, there's a room named after Mark Goodson. I can't remember the exact details, though...
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The Mark Goodson Theater, to be exact (floor layout here (http://\"http://www.mtr.org/visiting-ny/tour.htm\")).
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Since we're already stretching a little:
The press room at Staples Center, as well as a street in front of the arena, is named for Bowling For Dollars and Jackpot Bowling with Milton Berle host Chick Hearn.
/and this thread is now in the refrigerator
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Another is the Sajak Pavilion at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Pat lives nearby in Glen Burnie, MD, and Lesly and he have donated a lot of money to the hospital during the time they've been married. It's a beautiful building that currently holds many of the hospital's physician's offices, as well as their breast cancer center.
And yes, of course, it would make sense that'd I'd know that one off the top of my head... :D
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Chuck Woolery Blvd. in Ashland, Kentucky.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'164767\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 03:18 PM\']
Since we're already stretching a little:[/quote]
OK, let's stretch it a LOT (while still staying in the spirit of actual people, actual places):
Frequent 70s WML? panelist (and ace Celebrity Jeopardy! player) Jerry Orbach finally got a strip of Manhattan roadway named for him, after some initial controversy and resistance last year. There's also a Jerry Orbach Theatre in -- I kid you not -- the Snapple Theatre Center. I don't believe either were in recognition of his contributions to game shows.
Surely somebody's named something for the philanthropist host of Let's Make A Deal. A wing of a hospital or something? Or perhaps, more appropriately, a corridor...
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'164772\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 02:41 PM\']
Surely somebody's named something for the philanthropist host of Let's Make A Deal. A wing of a hospital or something? Or perhaps, more appropriately, a corridor...
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Or, even better, one of those big rooms where lots of students are told stuff by professors.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'164772\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 03:41 PM\']
Surely somebody's named something for the philanthropist host of Let's Make A Deal. A wing of a hospital or something? Or perhaps, more appropriately, a corridor...
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Indeed someone has, and I can't believe I didn't think to look on his own site (http://\"http://www.letsmakeadeal.com/mh-Bio.htm\") first...
He has the children's wings named for him at Hahnemann Hospital, UCLA Medical Center, Mount Sinai in Toronto and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He has streets named for him in Cathedral City (California) and Winnipeg.
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Reege has some sort of building (or hall or something) named for him at Notre Dame. (Regis Philbin Studio Theatre)
http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3 (http://\"http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3\")
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[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164775\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 04:00 PM\']
Reege has some sort of building (or hall or something) named for him at Notre Dame. (Regis Philbin Studio Theatre)
http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3 (http://\"http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3\")
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Heard it called both. Beautiful place.
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Does "Trebek Hall" at the University of Ottawa count? All I could find on Google was a bunch of rewordings of "it's rumored that they offered to name a residence hall for Trebek, he replied 'not until I'm dead', and it still retains the moniker 'New Residence'".
Emphasis on the "rumored", of course.
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[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164775\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 04:00 PM\']
Reege has some sort of building (or hall or something) named for him at Notre Dame. (Regis Philbin Studio Theatre)
http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3 (http://\"http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3\")
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I believe there's a street in New York that is named ceremonially for Philbin. It's near his alma mater, Cardinal Hayes HS.
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Not planned, but eerie nevertheless: in my hometown of Newmarket, Ontario, there is a "John Bowser cresent".
/Sha-na-na, then
//And in North Bay, where my parents live, there's a street intersection that's Third/Ferguson. Say them together, fast...
///Mr. Reynolds, you rang in.
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Am I being obvious in suggesting the town of Truth or Consequences?
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[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' post=\'164802\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 06:25 PM\']
Am I being obvious in suggesting the town of Truth or Consequences?
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Not really, because the OP is looking for game show hosts. Don't worry, I blinked for a second too.
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'164789\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 02:45 PM\'] I believe there's a street in New York that is named ceremonially for Philbin. It's near his alma mater, Cardinal Hayes HS. [/quote]
Yes, in my home borough, the Bronx... the only one of the five boroughs connected to the US mainland ;-)
And let's add an honor for the host of It's News To Me, The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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Monty Hall Drive in Winnipeg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/ (http://\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/\")
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Are you taking foreign hosts too?
http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&hl=it&a...p;z=17&om=1 (http://\"http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&hl=it&geocode=&q=via+corrado+mantoni&sll=45.505114,12.640092&sspn=0.006121,0.012875&ie=UTF8&ll=41.96801,12.534971&spn=0.003247,0.006437&z=17&om=1\")
Here's a street in Rome titled to Corrado Mantoni (1924-1999), the very first host on Italian TV back in 1949. He was known for inventing his own gameshows instead of copying american formats.
(look for clips in the appropriate thread in the next few days!)
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[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'164809\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 08:57 PM\']
Monty Hall Drive in Winnipeg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/ (http://\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/\")
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Already mentioned, narzo. Sorry.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'164812\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 09:43 PM\']
[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'164809\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 08:57 PM\']
Monty Hall Drive in Winnipeg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/ (http://\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/\")
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Already mentioned, narzo. Sorry.
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Then how about Monty Hall Drive (http://\"http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.780012,-116.461955&spn=0.00404,0.007296&z=17&om=1\") in Cathedral City, California (suburb of Palm Springs).
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Neat, neat category, Dr. Bear. Well done.
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Surely Mike Wallace has something named after him? Unfortunately, it's a common enough name that I can't find anything specifically named for the 60 Minutes presenter, and not some other Mike Wallace.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'164815\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 10:35 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'164812\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 09:43 PM\']
[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'164809\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 08:57 PM\']
Monty Hall Drive in Winnipeg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/ (http://\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidcontinuity/1289798138/\")
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Already mentioned, narzo. Sorry.
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Then how about Monty Hall Drive (http://\"http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.780012,-116.461955&spn=0.00404,0.007296&z=17&om=1\") in Cathedral City, California (suburb of Palm Springs).
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Actually, I referred to both in my earlier post (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=13694&view=findpost&p=164774\"), but it was nice to see the street sign for the first one. :-)
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'164818\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 10:58 PM\']
Surely Mike Wallace has something named after him? Unfortunately, it's a common enough name that I can't find anything specifically named for the 60 Minutes presenter, and not some other Mike Wallace.
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Not at his alma mater (Michigan) other than a fellowship he partially endows. Building names here either require that you were once president of the University or an 8-figure donation.
--Mike
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There is a...Glenn Ridge Drive across town...