Tom Pettit's Election Night Reports From a Milwaukee Tavern?

[Ultimajock]

...last night, I attended the Rachel Maddow Meetup event at the Tap Room of the historic Hotel Congress in downtown Tucson, Arizona. As part of last night's event, producer Bill Wolff filed a report to The Rachel Maddow Show, quite literally, from the bar (Skyped from his laptop resting on the bar) in the Tap Room. Afterwards, I spoke to Wolff (a really nice guy, BTW) and reminded him that he'd just revived a long-standing NBC News tradition by doing that report from the bar. In the '60s, '70s and '80s, NBC News correspondent Tom Pettit, who grew up in part in Milwaukee, used to file his Presidential Election Night reports live from the bar at Serb Hall in Milwaukee. I also recall that David Brinkley and John Chancellor both loved the idea so much that they'd figure out some way for both of them to introduce those reports on the broadcast. Anyone else here recall that tradition?...

 

[Bob1370]

Looking at them, you got the impression that they were thinking to themselves, "why can't we do next election night as a remote from Hurley's Bar?" (That was the NBC crew's favorite watering hole around the corner from 30 Rock, back in the day...)