So ah was reminiscing...and ah came up with these.

[Flaggs]

[straphanger]

love this!
now im going to be singing it all day!

[Flaggs]

[Flaggs]

[Flaggs]

[Flaggs]

[indie]

I wasn't even around when sesame street was like that, thanks for sharing

[snowbird]

Thanks Flaggs...you've got me all caught up in the Dynasty clips now ....that Joan Collins....she was the best

[Flaggs]

Ah know, ah know yuh not ole like Poser, Sarge and mih good mexican fren Guy Guy ( put up de gun pictear again nah, dat is a classic) so ah ent sure if de names Kathleen Warner and Bob Gittens sounds familiar to you. Ah cant find a picture ah de woman online anywhere.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_WarnerKathleen Warner, née Davis (1903-96), was a radio personality in Trinidad and Tobago, where she was born in Port of Spain. She is best remembered as host of the popular children's programme The Aunty Kay Show, which aired from 1942-85 on Radio Trinidad every Sunday afternoon.^[1]
Together with her two older sisters, Meta and Beryl, she completed her education in Britain, attending Redland High School, near Bristol, UK, and later studying medicine there. Becoming an actress, she featured alongside Paul Robeson in the London stage production of Stevedore, which opened at the Embassy Theatre on 9 May 1935. A notice by Nancy Cunard in The Crisis said: "Kathleen Davis as 'Ruby' and the Gold Coastian Ahuma as 'Joe Crump' are both beautiful and have great personality."^[2] She also acted in several films, including in a leading role in Debt of Honour (1936), starring Leslie Banks.
Her first husband was Dr Percical McIntosh Clarke (their daughter, Sheila, was to marry artist and dancer Boscoe Holder). She subsequently married Hilton Warner.
She died in 1996 at the age of 93.

[Flaggs]

wow.....is funny how some things does be so fresh in yuh mind after all dese years, sights, smells and sounds...dem tings does raise yuh pores sometimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Trinidad
Radio Trinidad is the oldest radio station in Trinidad and Tobago. It began broadcasting in 1947 at 11B Maraval Road in Port of Spain on the frequency 730 AM.
Over the years, the station successfully hosted a wide variety of programmes including soap operas, local and international news, educational documentaries such as the School Broadcasting Unit's show, which aired around 10a.m. on Mondays to Fridays when school was in session, and "The Passing Parade" hosted by John Doremus.
The station's announcers included June Gonsalves, Barbara Assoon, Glen Antoine, Sam Ghany, Ken Laughlin, Hugh Blackman, Larry Heywood, Val Douglas, Russell Winston, Trevor McDonald, Holly Betaudier, Peter Minshall, Don Proudfoot, Bob Gittens and Raffie Knowles.
Two of the most popular programmes were:

• "Sunday Serenade", a show that featured performers of the day including the Mighty Sparrow and Ken Hutcheon), broadcast at noon on Sundays co-hosted by Bob Gittens and Sam Ghany.
• "Auntie Kay", a children's talent show named after its presenter Kathleen Davis, which ran on Sundays at 2.00pm and was sponsored by the Bermudez Biscuit Company. The back-up band was Choy Aming and the featured pianists were Aldwyn Albino and Dawlett Ahee.

Among other regular features were the "Cook Caribbean Jazz" programme (which took its name from a Trinidad recording company, Cook Caribbean, that originally produced 78rpm records and later continued with the 33¹⁄₃ format), and "The Indian Hour" at 6:00 pm every day. There was also a programme for children called "Tell Me a Story" with Auntie Wendy, and a classical music show entitled "Music of the Masters".
Radio Trinidad covered the many events linked with the thoroughbred horse breeding fostered by Trinidad and Tobago: horse races at the Queen's Park Savannah, in Port of Spain, at the Arima Race Track, at Union Park in San Fernando and at Shirvan Park on Tobago, and aired live commentary on races in Barbados. The main race and sporting commentator was Ralph Ellis Knowles, better known as Raffie Knowles, who was Head of Sports at the station for years. (When television came to Trinidad on Independence Day in 1962, he moonlighted there as Trinidad and Tobago Television's main sportscaster. Raffie's photographic memory enabled him to work without benefit of script or teleprompter, providing detailed scores, giving historical data and anecdotes on players and teams on a whole variety of sports and sporting personalities.)
A sister station at 95 FM was officially launched in 1976; prior to that 95 FM merely broadcast the same programming as Radio Trinidad.
The Radio Trinidad 730 AM frequency is now dedicated to inspirational music and other church and religious broadcasting. Radio Trinidad is currently located at the Guardian building in Port of Spain.

[bigzack]

Aunty Kay used to live at Industry Lane in Belmont.

She used to also run a show one day in the week around 7:00pm.

I actually appeared on that show one night, where I recited a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[letric]

What about Dough Hatton (WVDI), Frank Pardo?

[bigzack]

Ah know, ah know yuh not ole like Poser, Sarge and mih good mexican fren Guy Guy ( put up de gun pictear again nah, dat is a classic) so ah ent sure if de names Kathleen Warner and Bob Gittens sounds familiar to you. Ah cant find a picture ah de woman online anywhere.

Flaggs

You cyar even make ah good internet macco.

[Flaggs]

True dat Sarge, ah din see dat one, dais why yuh is Bess Police. I didnt know the woman had such a diverse background. Simpler times back then.

[snowbird]

Ah know, ah know yuh not ole like Poser, Sarge and mih good mexican fren Guy Guy ( put up de gun pictear again nah, dat is a classic) so ah ent sure if de names Kathleen Warner and Bob Gittens sounds familiar to you. Ah cant find a picture ah de woman online anywhere.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_WarnerKathleen Warner, née Davis (1903-96), was a radio personality in Trinidad and Tobago, where she was born in Port of Spain. She is best remembered as host of the popular children's programme The Aunty Kay Show, which aired from 1942-85 on Radio Trinidad every Sunday afternoon.^[1]
Together with her two older sisters, Meta and Beryl, she completed her education in Britain, attending Redland High School, near Bristol, UK, and later studying medicine there. Becoming an actress, she featured alongside Paul Robeson in the London stage production of Stevedore, which opened at the Embassy Theatre on 9 May 1935. A notice by Nancy Cunard in The Crisis said: "Kathleen Davis as 'Ruby' and the Gold Coastian Ahuma as 'Joe Crump' are both beautiful and have great personality."^[2] She also acted in several films, including in a leading role in Debt of Honour (1936), starring Leslie Banks.
Her first husband was Dr Percical McIntosh Clarke (their daughter, Sheila, was to marry artist and dancer Boscoe Holder). She subsequently married Hilton Warner.
She died in 1996 at the age of 93.

Lord..... now yuh torkin bout........famaleeeeeee

Kathleen Warner second husband was my father's cousin.....

Uncle Hilton and Aunty Kay lived just around the corner from us in Belmont....through her marriage to uncle Hilton as a young child...I was able to meet her daughter Shiela..... her son in law Bosco Holder....and his brother actor Jeffrey Holder..... many may not know this.....but even though Jeffrey lived ....abroad..... he would come to T&T for carnival.... he loved his .....sailor mas.

Oh, and Bob Gittens I knew from going to Radio Trinidad to see aunty Kay's show..... she did a live show in those days....uncle Hilton played guitar in the band that provided the music for the show,

[snowbird]

Flaggs

You cyar even make ah good internet macco.

Well I only hope this contest was ....... above board

I know the ones she usta have at radio Trinidad were ...... fixed


whe had she only little group of children who usat win all the competitions all the time......Names like Charmain Yates would come up as a winner time and time again..... truth is.... Charmain was in the studio just about every week

one of my sisters even entered a calypso contest she ran once......and won .......famaleeeeee

boy that was certainly a simpler time.

[bigzack]

whe had she only little group of children who usat win all the competitions all the time......Names like Charmain Yates would come up as a winner time and time again..... truth is.... Charmain was in the studio just about every week

If it wasn't Charmaine Yeates, it was Cliff Lezama, and occasionally Robert Narine.

Later on it had some twins from Hermitage Road that used tuh always win too.

[snowbird]

If it wasn't Charmaine Yeates, it was Cliff Lezama, and occasionally Robert Narine.

Later on it had some twins from Hermitage Road that used tuh always win too.

..... the reason why I remembered Charmaine.... is that she lived around the corner from Aunty Kay in Belmont too

[bigzack]

Carnival in Sando in 1941

Uploaded by oldtimecalypso on Feb 11, 2011

This film was sent to me by Geoffrey MacLean, from his
family's collection of early 8mm films shot in Trinidad during WW2. This film
depicts Carnival time, most likely at Skinner Park in San Fernando. It appears
unlike most other old carnival films that I have seen in that it consists mainly
of floats, set up on what appears to be oil company lorries. Also, most of the
participants are white so perhaps this is a Trinidad Leaseholds carnival entry.
The costumes are quite elaborate, fashioned after American, British and Canadian
iconic figures however there are none of the wild and garish "mas" costumes so
evident in Trinidad carnival. In fact, as far as carnival goes, this affair
seems quite sedate. I'm quite sure that tea and cakes were served afterwards!

[guyguy]

I'm quite sure that tea and cakes were served afterwards!

[snowbird]

That video brings back memories of stories my mother told me..... about her father renting out his trucks at Carnival time ......so that the masqueraders could play mas on the flat bed of the truck..... in those days... that is how they did it.

[snowbird]

http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/carnival-in-trinidad-1953


Carnival in Trinidad 1953

Listen for his explanation of how we got the idea to play 'sailor mas'....not quite accurate.

[lexbarker]

Flaggs

You cyar even make ah good internet macco.

Thanks. I remember my sister paid for me for one of these Auntie Kay "Special" (as she called it).

[letric]

Carnival in Sando in 1941

[Sly1]

Snowbird: So de with dey bamci up in the air didn't happen den? So when did dey start doing dat?