Temple University Gets Trove From Local TV-Radio Pioneer Lew Klein
By Lynne Adkins
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A Philadelphia media icon has donated boxes of his memorabilia to a local university.
Lew Klein was in Philadelphia television at the beginning -- performing commercials with puppets for $5 a week, later working on the first weather show in the country (at CBS 3), and eventually giving the nation "American Bandstand."
And through it all he saved documents, photos, and more, filling his home with boxes of stuff.
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Now, Klein is giving 23 packed cartons to the Special Collections Research Center of the Temple University Libraries.
What's in the collection?
"About 1,200 photographs taken during various television shows, starting back in 1949 and 1950," Klein told KYW Newsradio today. "There are videotapes, there's an 'American Bandstand' program from 1958, there are news films..."
The items will be available to students and other researchers.
