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DrBear

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« on: September 25, 2007, 02:21:24 PM »
Let's see if this is really a two- or three-item list.

 

Places that are named after game show hosts. I can only think of two (and by "places" I mean things that can be marked on a map or that you can stand in - not, say, Matt Ottinger's star on the Walk of Fame.

 

1. The easy one - The Bob Barker Studio at Television City in Hollywood.

2. Johnny Carson Park, across from NBC-Burbank.

 

If you want to add hosts of pilots, there's

3. The David Letterman Communication and Media Building at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.

 

Anyone else?

 

Note to wise guys: Anybody mentioning the (Betty) White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fleming), or (Pat) Finn-land will be slapped with a restraining order or an autographed picture of Randy West.
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« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 02:36:19 PM »
Took some research but I came up with three more...

Ray Combs Avenue in Hamilton, Ohio (PDF)
The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication in Arizona
Ralph Edwards Riverside Park in NM

EDIT: One more, and I know it's a stretch...

Pamela Wallin Drive in Wadena, Saskatchewan
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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 02:36:54 PM »
[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'164757\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 11:21 AM\']Note to wise guys: Anybody mentioning the (Betty) White House, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fleming), or (Pat) Finn-land will be slapped with a restraining order or an autographed picture of Randy West.[/quote]
I resemble that remark!   ;-)

I'll add the Mark Goodson wing at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. It's near the corner of George Burns and Gracie Allen. (Yes, Mr. Goodson did host several of his shows on several occasions).

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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 02:40:09 PM »
On the second floor of the Paley Center, there's a room named after Mark Goodson. I can't remember the exact details, though...
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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 02:56:57 PM »
[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'164760\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 02:40 PM\']
On the second floor of the Paley Center, there's a room named after Mark Goodson. I can't remember the exact details, though...
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The Mark Goodson Theater, to be exact (floor layout here).
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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2007, 03:18:27 PM »
Since we're already stretching a little:

The press room at Staples Center, as well as a street in front of the arena, is named for Bowling For Dollars and Jackpot Bowling with Milton Berle host Chick Hearn.

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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2007, 03:25:17 PM »
Another is the Sajak Pavilion at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Pat lives nearby in Glen Burnie, MD, and Lesly and he have donated a lot of money to the hospital during the time they've been married. It's a beautiful building that currently holds many of the hospital's physician's offices, as well as their breast cancer center.

And yes, of course, it would make sense that'd I'd know that one off the top of my head... :D
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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2007, 03:39:32 PM »
Chuck Woolery Blvd. in Ashland, Kentucky.
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« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2007, 03:41:50 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'164767\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 03:18 PM\']
Since we're already stretching a little:[/quote]
OK, let's stretch it a LOT (while still staying in the spirit of actual people, actual places):

Frequent 70s WML? panelist (and ace Celebrity Jeopardy! player) Jerry Orbach finally got a strip of Manhattan roadway named for him, after some initial controversy and resistance last year.  There's also a Jerry Orbach Theatre in -- I kid you not -- the Snapple Theatre Center.  I don't believe either were in recognition of his contributions to game shows.

Surely somebody's named something for the philanthropist host of Let's Make A Deal.   A wing of a hospital or something?  Or perhaps, more appropriately, a corridor...
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« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2007, 03:45:53 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'164772\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 02:41 PM\']
Surely somebody's named something for the philanthropist host of Let's Make A Deal.   A wing of a hospital or something?  Or perhaps, more appropriately, a corridor...
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Or, even better, one of those big rooms where lots of students are told stuff by professors.
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« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2007, 03:48:28 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'164772\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 03:41 PM\']
Surely somebody's named something for the philanthropist host of Let's Make A Deal.   A wing of a hospital or something?  Or perhaps, more appropriately, a corridor...
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Indeed someone has, and I can't believe I didn't think to look on his own site first...

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He has the children's wings named for him at Hahnemann Hospital, UCLA Medical Center, Mount Sinai in Toronto and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He has streets named for him in Cathedral City (California) and Winnipeg.
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« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2007, 04:00:07 PM »
Reege has some sort of building (or hall or something) named for him at Notre Dame. (Regis Philbin Studio Theatre)

http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3
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« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2007, 04:30:34 PM »
[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164775\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 04:00 PM\']
Reege has some sort of building (or hall or something) named for him at Notre Dame. (Regis Philbin Studio Theatre)

http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3
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Heard it called both.  Beautiful place.
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« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2007, 05:26:47 PM »
Does "Trebek Hall" at the University of Ottawa count? All I could find on Google was a bunch of rewordings of "it's rumored that they offered to name a residence hall for Trebek, he replied 'not until I'm dead', and it still retains the moniker 'New Residence'".

Emphasis on the "rumored", of course.
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« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2007, 05:45:55 PM »
[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164775\' date=\'Sep 25 2007, 04:00 PM\']
Reege has some sort of building (or hall or something) named for him at Notre Dame. (Regis Philbin Studio Theatre)

http://performingarts.nd.edu/?page=fac&nav=6&fac=3
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I believe there's a street in New York that is named ceremonially for Philbin. It's near his alma mater, Cardinal Hayes HS.
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