<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Greetings from California, where we can still offer you a drink of water even in a drought.</div><div><br></div><div>Washington, DC, area, Maryland and Virginia members and friends are invited to gather for food and stories in Washington, DC at the First Quad Videotape Group Dinner at SAA (The Society of American Archivists.)</div><div><br></div><div>This is an extension of our ongoing lunches at NAB and Dinners at AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists.)</div><div><br></div><div>We'll be gathering on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 7:30pm in the:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Lobby Bar</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); ">Marriott Wardman Park Hotel</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/2660+Woodley+Rd+NW,+Washington,+DC+20008/@38.9256454,-77.0507257,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b7b7d49407f51b:0xa207c7f2091e0187"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3600fc">2660 Woodley Road NW </font></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/2660+Woodley+Rd+NW,+Washington,+DC+20008/@38.9256454,-77.0507257,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b7b7d49407f51b:0xa207c7f2091e0187"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3600fc">Washington, DC 20008</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); "> </span></a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><img id="f49594eb-f6b3-438d-a65b-cdfcf8d94837" height="222" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DB21DBAE-CF5E-4AF8-B1B2-45A8D53DCE80@attlocal.net"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Look for the Quad Reel on a table to find us.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="51d28d95-f78a-4030-acf1-db2a128d0606" height="240" width="240" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3B60882D-D51F-4976-B30F-8A57CE2A4A88@attlocal.net"></div><div><br></div><div>There are restaurants in the hotel, and in the nearby Woodley Park area:</div><div><br></div><div><img id="02ea6515-68c1-4650-ae61-0de11087be84" height="222" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:81D9CE4D-7F9C-4D15-BC98-2FD122978966@attlocal.net"></div><div>Dining suggestions welcome. We could snag a mini-van cab and head elsewhere, as we did in Richmond during the AMIA Conference.</div><div><br></div><div>Please <a href="mailto:tedl@quadvideotapegroup.com">RSVP off-list</a> so I know how many to plan for. </div><div><br></div><div>I'll be on-site at the hotel as of late tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, Aug. 9) through Sunday, Aug. 17 and would be happy to see QuadList members over the course of the visit.</div><div><br></div><div>From 1947 to 1958, the basement of what's now called the Wardman Tower </div><div><img id="755b5d6b-c962-47fc-8661-b75b1504186a" height="222" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:B124F2CF-9A14-48C6-A1D6-3D262ADAD9E4@attlocal.net"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); ">was the second home of NBC-owned WNBW joining the transmitter already on the property, before both moved to the current home of NBC/WRC-TV on Nebraska Ave. NW in 1958.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); ">See details about the historic videotape of that dedication, here:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); "><a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/restoring-the-earliest-known-color-quad-tape-the-dedication-of-wrc-tvnbc-washington-dc/">http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/restoring-the-earliest-known-color-quad-tape-the-dedication-of-wrc-tvnbc-washington-dc/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); ">If you have pictures of the former WNBW/WRC-TV facilities in the Wardman Park (later called the Sheraton-Park) or other Washington, DC area television facilities (including Quad) please bring them along.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); ">We'd love to include scans on the <a href="http://QuadVideotapeGroup.com">QuadVideotapeGroup.com</a> website.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope you're all having a good afternoon, and we see some of you in Washinton, DC.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><br><div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 17px; "></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Quad Videotape Group</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div>
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