Mark Evanier
wrote, "Every website ought to have an article about
Soupy Sales."
Speaking as a Charter Member of The Soupy Sales Society, I agree.
I attended a broadcast of the show many years ago. I took the photos
below, and they've never been published prior to their appearance
here. Feel free to download them for your own use, but please ask
permission before
re-publishing them.
Soupy Talks WNEW-TV
Photo � Don Brockway
Here it is - the reason kids who grew up with Soupy love
Soupy. He was real, he was live... and he talked directly to us.
Soupy and Pookie On-Air at WNEW-TV
Photo � Don Brockway
That's Eli, the stage manager, at right. When the
crew's laughter became too raucous, Soupy would say, "Cool, it, Eli!"
Over forty years later, when things are being said that she doesn't
want to hear, my mother
says "Cool it, Eli." And she has no idea whatsoever where
she picked up the phrase.
Soupy Prepares for
a Buster Brown Shoe Ad WNEW-TV
Photo � Don Brockway
"Right here, in Buster Brown's new coloring book,
'Buster and Tige Go To The Circus.'"
Soupy On-Air at WNEW-TV
Photo �
Don Brockway
Frank Nastasi (at left, holding script)
provides the voice of the radio announcer "live."
Want to WATCH some Soupy?
An Interview with Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, and
Fred Scott - Part One Part 2 -
Part 3