Anybody remember Harry Volkman, "Chicago's only professional meteorologist?" Linda in Boston --- Al Ruben <aruben1@gmail.com> wrote: > Message-ID: <bc3.df574c4.33683786@aol.com> > > Re: Early Chicago Television. > > The weatherman who drew the cartoons and whose line > was that he is in > "charge of looking out the window" is PJ Hoff. > Uncle Johnny Coon became an executive with NBC. He > was the one who > requested that move away from the TV screen. An > early health nut. > And you didn't mention Elmer the Elephant. > > Al Ruben > Evanston > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

Hi Linda, Harry Volkman was a very popular weatherman in the Chicago area. He used to speak at schools. Our third grade (two teachers; I was one of them.) asked him to come to speak and the principal invited the poor man to have lunch with us at a local restaurant after his talk. (I am quite sure he had other plans but he was kind enough to join us.)I remember people coming up to get his autograph. It was a miracle he got to eat anything at all. He was famous for wearing a boutonniere. (spelling?)All the schools would present one to him and he would show them on television during his forecast. We told the florist who it was for and the florist created a doozy. I think every florist tried to outdo the next one. They became stranger and larger over the years. Judy --- Linda Kush <lkushgen@verizon.net> wrote: > Anybody remember Harry Volkman, "Chicago's only > professional meteorologist?" > > Linda in Boston > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather