VENTRILOQUIST JIMMY WELDON AND WEBSTER WEBFOOT PHOTO CARD SIGNED
Item History & Price
Up for auction is this vintage postcard sized photo card showing Jimmy Weldon with Webster Webfoot. It's signed by Jimmy Weldon on the back. No COA but it was in a postcard scrapbook from the 1950's and 60's. This was an early children's show starring the voice actor, entertainer and ventriloquist JIMMY WELDON "Uncle Jimmy" and his sidekick "dummy" duck, Webster Webfoot. The children's show sought to teach kids life lessons, "Born Ivy Laverne Shinn on September 23, 1923, in... Dale, Texas, he began his career in 1946 as a disc jockey at KWCO, the radio station which began its operations shortly after he returned home following WWII. He was the first announcer hired at this new radio station.While there, he developed a character named Webster Webfoot, a little duck who visited him while Jimmy was playing record requests from listeners calling in. Often they just wanted to talk to little Webster. They thought Webster was someone other than Jimmy, and so he became an important part of Jimmy's disc jockey presentations.Television actingIn 1948, Jimmy (and Webster Webfoot) moved to Duncan, Oklahoma, where they performed on another 250-watt AM station, KRHD, for two more years. The big 50, 000-watt radio station WFAA in Dallas, Texas, recruited Webster and Jimmy as entertainers, and Webster became a real person on television on April 4, 1950, on The Webster Webfoot Show, produced locally by station WFAA-TV.They moved to California on September 5, 1952, joining KCOP-TV, Channel 13, in Hollywood and continued their television careers. During an appearance at a middle school in Brentwood, Jeff Chandler and Randolph Scott collected the tickets from the children and parents who came to see the show. These two movie stars made Jimmy feel very lucky indeed when they commented, "Our children think more of little Webster than they do OUR movie careers." Also, Ralph Edwards was there, and he later gave Webster and Jimmy the positions as co-hosts of a new children's game show titled Funny Boners, a junior version of his famous Truth or Consequences radio and television shows, which aired on ABC.In 1956 Jimmy and Webster moved to Fresno, California, which began a career in the San Joaquin Valley at KFRE-TV, Channel 12. This was interrupted, however, when NBC executives called them to New York to replace Shari Lewis on the Hi, Mom show on NBC flagship station, WRCA-TV, Channel 4. In 1959, Channel 13 in Hollywood once again became their television home.In 1961, Jimmy and Webster were called back to the San Joaquin Valley. They continued performing their show on KJEO-TV, Channel 47, in Fresno, California, throughout the 1960s. During this time, Jimmy and Webster also did TV shows in Salinas and Bakersfield, California, flying their airplane from city to city for those shows".PHOTOS. ASK QUESTIONS. PLEASE CHECK BELOW THE DESCRIPTION IN CASE I DO AN ADD ON THAT MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT BIDDING ON THE ITEM. NO RESERVE! SHIPPING WILL BE ACTUAL COST. CHECK MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR ART, COLLECTIBLES, ANTIQUES AND UNIQUE ITEMS ETC. SOME ITEMS ARE LISTED NOW AND I'LL LIST MORE SOON.
