This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.
Saturday, July 22, 2017
God Bless Jim Vance
We moved here in 1975 and Jim Vance was THE anchor to watch. He was THE anchor for the 42 years that I have been in the DC area.
Mr. Vance passed away and there is a very nice article in the Washington Post about him.
My fondest memories were the on-air conversations between him and George Michael the sports broadcaster for Channel 4 and his stories. In this video they both lose it when they are watching a model continue to fall on the runway in Paris. One of my favorites was when President George H.W. Bush called him up to go fishing on the Potomac. We watched him grow as we grew over the years as well. In 2013 he came out against the name Redskins and I was with him on the change of heart as well. He also liked Harleys and even though he was very famous in the DC area, he still came across as just a nice guy who happened to be the local anchor.
Below is Mr. Vance announcing he had cancer:
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