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Last Summary Update: 05-03-2024

Veteran Cab Rider
Airdate: Thursday - November 7, 1974

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

That's the new theater, see. The only people that work free in this world are artists and actors. . .

Show Description

Riding in a cab today If I had all the cab fares I've paid out living in this town, I could buy this town now. . . Different kinds of cab drivers 'Acting' in sports Myron the cab driver

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - - ]   
  Shepherd claims to be a "gifted cab rider." Comments on cab riding on New York City.      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 13:34	This is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 05:26	Compoz
• 06:26	Grand Union
• 11:25	Gramercy Park Clothes
• 12:27	Dodge	Colt
• 21:13	TV Guide	Sophia Loren cover
• 27:30	Broadway Play	Sherlock Holmes - Broadhurst Theatre
• 29:26	Monarch Brokerage
• 30:47	General Tire
• 31:47	Ringling Bros And Barnum & Baily Circus	NY Col

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	No Music Used

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Al

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 02:04 ]	Live Shows		Sub Plot Cafe - American Place Theatre

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		November 7, 1974	Veteran Cab Rider	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group B	103Ab	Cassette

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975