NBC Memories 1942 - 1964
by Bill Roddy

Chapter Ten of Twelve, Memories of Eddy King

This was our favorite place where everybody went for the best Mexican food around...  Al William's wonderful Papagayo Room at the Fairmont Hotel. Al was always around to say hello and greet celebrities appearing at San Francisco hotels.
     Here I am with some friends of mine clowning around.

That's Tol Avery at left. A great actor who went on to Hollywood and appeared in Jack Webb's Dragnet on radio and then made a number of movies.

Next to him is Eddy King, one of my best friends from radio days. He was an announcer at NBC, San Francisco, who shortly after this photo was taken in 1946, transferred to NBC in Hollywood, and had a long career. That's me peeking over Eddy's shoulder. The beautiful young lady who is ignoring us is Dorothea Mitchell. 

Eddy lives in the Los Angeles area and we communicate regularly. We haven't met up yet, but I did hear from one of his friends, Jack Murphy, who has morning coffee with Eddy  and reports he is in fine shape.*

*A sad update from an email I received on September 12 from Eddy's daughter, Julie Meyer. Eddy passed away on August 29, 2011 at age 99.
Thanks to the internet we can still hear Eddy at NBC announcing Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective.  Here is the link.  You will need RealPlayer  http://www.otr.net/?p=diam

Chapter Eleven: The Last Broadcast