Back in the day of black & white television and American Bandstand<\/em>, way before You Tube and Facebook, the Hub Department Store (1324-30 Market St.) sponsored a local TV show entitled \u201cHey, There!\u201d Produced by Patti Adams, a senior at St. Joseph\u2019s Academy, the show, which aired on WTRF-TV, was aimed at fellow teenagers and featured a mix of fashion, sports, and news commentary. In the fall of 1958, a photographer from Life<\/em> Magazine traveled to Wheeling, WV to take photographs and interview Adams for a feature story. The photographer took many candid shots of Patti at the TV station, her school and other locations in Wheeling as well as the Adams home in Yorkville, Ohio.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the story and accompanying photographs never made it to print. The tragic fire at the Our Lady of Angels in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred on December 1, 1958, preempted many stories slated for print.\u00a0\u00a0Life<\/em> Magazine later gave the photographs, negatives, and story draft to Patti for her to keep. In 2016, Patti\u2019s sister, Peggy Adams Gallup, contacted the Ohio County Public Library and generously offered to donate the material to the Archives and Special Collections.\u00a0 The Archives is honored to preserve this collection that tells a unique story in Wheeling\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Excerpts from the draft: \u201cWhile rapping out a full-time schedule as a high-school senior at St. Joseph\u2019s Academy, she auditions the program\u2019s talent (all of it local, amateur and teen-age), writes most of the scripts and the commercials. With only the director and camera crew as professional help, \u201cHey There\u201d (\u201cProduced by Patti,\u201d reads the credit) reaches between 85,000 and 170,000 viewers in the Southern Ohio Valley, earns the young impresario $00 a week from her delighted department store sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n WTRF-TV first went on the air just five years earlier in the fall of 1953 and in those early years of television, a show produced and aimed at local teenagers was likely a low-cost welcome experiment.\u00a0 More from the article: \u201cSays Patti Adams: \u2018What I look for in an act is something that interests me.\u00a0 I\u2019m a teenager, and if it doesn\u2019t interest me, why should any of the other kids get a bang out of it?\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n After graduating from St. Joseph\u2019s Academy, Patti went to The Ohio State University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in Speech and English.\u00a0 She also received a Master of Fine Arts from The Catholic University of America.\u00a0 She used this knowledge to teach special education students in Maryland and Florida.\u00a0 Adams passed away in Florida in 2001.<\/p>\n Access the finding aid for this collection here:\u00a0\u00a0Patti Adams collection of \u201cHey There!\u201d television show photographs, 1958.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.archivingwheeling.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/OCPL_Adams-Hey-There8v2.jpg\")
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