Industry on Parade paid far more attention to Kansas and Oklahoma than any modern TV show. Many of the features were in that area. They showed Capper’s farm magazine interviewing a modern farmer, a flood in the Argentine industrial area of KCK, aircraft production at Boeing, an oil exhibition in Tulsa, and the Picher lead mines (now closed down by EPA). In Picher the show was talking about gallium, newly discovered mixed with lead. Gallium was a mystery metal at that time, worth 100 times more than gold. It soon became a necessity, so refining it was worth Picher’s expense.
This episode featured the services of Allied Moving, who allegedly picked up all of your furniture and then arranged it properly in the destination house, along with curtains and everything. Turnkey job. I doubt that anyone does it now.
The featured family was transferred from Mt Kisco NY to a branch office in KCMO. The address** of the destination was 6230 Pennsylvania. I recognized the area as the Country Club District, formerly a VERY NICE neighborhood, between Ward Parkway and Wornall. (Pronounced worNELL.)
Here’s the house in the film:
And a side view of the family walking in:
GoogleStreets found the house, and the step in the sidewalk is still there!:
Still a VERY NICE neighborhood, and the right sort of house for a family moving from Mt Kisco. I haven’t been there, but a quick random view by Google verified that it was more or less what I imagined.
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** Sidenote: Radio and TV always gave out specific addresses back then, as a source of local pride. Now our FBI-induced fears about “hacking” and “data privacy” prohibit such proud information.
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