RIP Bob Barker

[Bob78164]

Bob Barker has passed away at age 99. As one wag on Facebook put it, he lived as close as possible to 100 without going over. --Bob

[silverscreenselect]

The Price Is Right had been taping at the same Hollywood studio where CBS shows like Carol Burnett and the Smothers Brothers were taped. That studio was named after Barker in 1998. However, the show is moving to a new studio in Glendale (I'm not sure how these two locations relate to each other in terms of distance) for the new season which begins next month. I hadn't heard anything about naming the new stucio, but I would guess they would also name it after Barker, especially now.

[Bob78164]

The Price Is Right had been taping at the same Hollywood studio where CBS shows like Carol Burnett and the Smothers Brothers were taped. That studio was named after Barker in 1998. However, the show is moving to a new studio in Glendale (I'm not sure how these two locations relate to each other in terms of distance) for the new season which begins next month. I hadn't heard anything about naming the new stucio, but I would guess they would also name it after Barker, especially now.

The old studio is literally walking distance from my apartment and is the subject of a large redevelopment project (it will remain a studio). Glendale is 30-90 minutes away, depending on traffic and your ability to navigate surface streets through the hills instead of depending on a freeway. --Bob

[Bob Juch]

The Price Is Right had been taping at the same Hollywood studio where CBS shows like Carol Burnett and the Smothers Brothers were taped. That studio was named after Barker in 1998. However, the show is moving to a new studio in Glendale (I'm not sure how these two locations relate to each other in terms of distance) for the new season which begins next month. I hadn't heard anything about naming the new studio, but I would guess they would also name it after Barker, especially now.

The old studio is literally walking distance from my apartment and is the subject of a large redevelopment project (it will remain a studio). Glendale is 30-90 minutes away, depending on traffic and your ability to navigate surface streets through the hills instead of depending on a freeway. --Bob

Haven Studios is on Colorado Blvd., 9.8 miles from TVC; you don't have to drive over hills to get there.

[Bob78164]

The Price Is Right had been taping at the same Hollywood studio where CBS shows like Carol Burnett and the Smothers Brothers were taped. That studio was named after Barker in 1998. However, the show is moving to a new studio in Glendale (I'm not sure how these two locations relate to each other in terms of distance) for the new season which begins next month. I hadn't heard anything about naming the new studio, but I would guess they would also name it after Barker, especially now.

The old studio is literally walking distance from my apartment and is the subject of a large redevelopment project (it will remain a studio). Glendale is 30-90 minutes away, depending on traffic and your ability to navigate surface streets through the hills instead of depending on a freeway. --Bob

Haven Studios is on Colorado Blvd., 9.8 miles from TVC; you don't have to drive over hills to get there.

Really? What route would you propose taking to avoid that necessity? --Bob

[BackInTex]

Bob Barker, COME ON DOWN!

RIP, a good man, from all I’ve read.

[Bob Juch]

The old studio is literally walking distance from my apartment and is the subject of a large redevelopment project (it will remain a studio). Glendale is 30-90 minutes away, depending on traffic and your ability to navigate surface streets through the hills instead of depending on a freeway. --Bob

Haven Studios is on Colorado Blvd., 9.8 miles from TVC; you don't have to drive over hills to get there.

Really? What route would you propose taking to avoid that necessity? --Bob

Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Continue to Beverly Blvd
2 min (0.2 mi)

Drive along N Wilton Pl and Los Feliz Blvd. Take exit 142 from I-5 N
29 min (9.2 mi)

Continue on Colorado Blvd to your destination
2 min (0.3 mi)
Haven Studios
4561 W Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039


OR

Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Continue to Beverly Blvd
2 min (0.2 mi)

Drive along N Wilton Pl, Santa Monica Blvd, Hyperion Ave and I-5 N. Take exit 142 from I-5 N
30 min (10.1 mi)

Continue on Colorado Blvd to your destination
2 min (0.3 mi)
Haven Studios
4561 W Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

[Bob78164]

Haven Studios is on Colorado Blvd., 9.8 miles from TVC; you don't have to drive over hills to get there.

Really? What route would you propose taking to avoid that necessity? --Bob

Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Continue to Beverly Blvd
2 min (0.2 mi)

Drive along N Wilton Pl and Los Feliz Blvd. Take exit 142 from I-5 N
29 min (9.2 mi)

Continue on Colorado Blvd to your destination
2 min (0.3 mi)
Haven Studios
4561 W Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039


OR

Television City
7800 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Continue to Beverly Blvd
2 min (0.2 mi)

Drive along N Wilton Pl, Santa Monica Blvd, Hyperion Ave and I-5 N. Take exit 142 from I-5 N
30 min (10.1 mi)

Continue on Colorado Blvd to your destination
2 min (0.3 mi)
Haven Studios
4561 W Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

Los Feliz and I 5 go through the hills in that part of town. —Bob

[Vandal]

Gentlemen. Does it really matter?

[Bob Juch]

Gentlemen. Does it really matter?

No, but Los Feliz doesn't require navigation.

[BackInTex]

Gentlemen. Does it really matter?

No, but Los Feliz doesn't require navigation.

Typical tone-deafness. Vandal was implying the back and forth about street directions shouldn’t be in a thread meant to honor the dead.

[SportsFan68]

Bob Barker is one of my first and best television memories because of Truth or Consequences. "You didn't tell the truth, now you must pay the consequences."

Barker would ask a joke question of the contestants, and it was answered "correctly" only one time that I remember: Q: "What can any man make in his workshop?" A: "A mess." So he oh so suavely pulled out an alternate question, which of course they missed.

From time to time, not very often, he would mention Truth or Consequences, NM, the town that changed its name from Hot Springs to collect some prizes, one of which was a fairly sizeable cash award, if I recall correctly. They had to leave the name the same for 25 years, again IIRC, but when the time was up, they kept it!

I thought Barker was the best television host ever, first on Truth or Consequences and then when he moved on to Price is Right.

[Earl the Squirrel]

Bob Barker is one of my first and best television memories because of Truth or Consequences. "You didn't tell the truth, now you must pay the consequences."

Barker would ask a joke question of the contestants, and it was answered "correctly" only one time that I remember: Q: "What can any man make in his workshop?" A: "A mess." So he oh so suavely pulled out an alternate question, which of course they missed.

From time to time, not very often, he would mention Truth or Consequences, NM, the town that changed its name from Hot Springs to collect some prizes, one of which was a fairly sizeable cash award, if I recall correctly. They had to leave the name the same for 25 years, again IIRC, but when the time was up, they kept it!

I thought Barker was the best television host ever, first on Truth or Consequences and then when he moved on to Price is Right.

I was listening to a podcast ep a few days ago about the Toy Box Killer and it involved Truth or Consequences, NM. The podcasters had only the vaguest idea that it was a radio show or some such and I felt so damned old!

[Earl the Squirrel]

[SportsFan68]

That's exactly right!

[littlebeast13]

Careful there, Bob. When I was 8, I really was home sick. With the chicken pox......

And of course, so were all four of my sisters....

lb13

[silverscreenselect]

Lest we forget, Bob Barker's greatest cinematic moment:

[ShamelessWeasel]

[silverscreenselect]

CBS is airing a tribute special to Bob Barker this Thursday at 8:00 (live streaming on Paramount+) with a repeat on Labor Day.