Can you help identify anyone in this 1960 press event in Times Square?
March 27, 2018 1:10 PM   Subscribe

Sometime in 1960, Coca-Cola launched a new sign in Times Square (the circular one that looks like this). To promote it, they held a lighting ceremony in Times Square, and I have located a photo of that event here. Wondering if anyone is albe to recognize any of the people in the photo. Thanks!
posted by brbmaroon to Society & Culture (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: I believe the woman throwing the switch is Anita Bryant, who starred in a commercial for Coke at that time.
posted by Chrischris at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2018


Best answer: And the well-lit fellow who's facing the camera in that same picture is Guy Lombardo, I believe.
posted by DandyRandy at 2:24 PM on March 27, 2018


Best answer: I think glasses-but-no-overcoat, in the shot on the upper right, is then-Coke president Lee Talley.
posted by Iris Gambol at 2:35 PM on March 27, 2018


Response by poster: Thanks everyone!
posted by brbmaroon at 8:21 AM on March 28, 2018


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