"You Wonder What Goes Through Their Minds"

More memories of the once-televised dead, in this case Tom Snyder, subject of a remembrance excerpted at FishbowlLA; entire thing here.

“Everyone in Los Angeles television was at the old Columbia Bar and Grill at Sunset and Gower for the celebration,” says Horowicz. “Tom made a mental note of who was absent and when his turn came to speak at the podium he said, ‘If a bomb were to hit this place right now, Steve Edwards would become the biggest star in Los Angeles TV!’

Bonus (& possibly apocryphal) from us: Guy w/ whom we worked at KVST-Channel 68 1974-ish knew people who worked at KNBC when Snyder did the news there; he advised us that one of Tom's favorite in-studio pranks was to say "Boy, do I have to urinate!" the second he got the "Clear" sign from the floor director, hoping to beat the audio operator who was supposed to cut Snyder's mike.