1971 16mm TV News Film - Seedy Downtown San Diego, Neon, Adult Theaters, etc

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Another film from the Bob Mills archive, kindly donated by his daughter Paula. Mills was a TV personality in San Diego for many years in the 1960s-70s era. Much of that time he was at Channel 8, and any of those films will be posted on their RUclips channel. Anything he did after leaving Channel 8 will be posted here.
Part of the first episode of "Bob Mills' San Diego." I don't know how many episodes of this show that Bob did, or what channel they aired on. In this episode, Bob tours the seedy part of downtown San Diego with an obnoxious preacher named Bob Harrington. Note that the sound in the Harrington segment isn't exactly synchronized to the visuals- they were just recording their dialog on a cassette deck and roughly synchronized the audio to the various scenes in the editing stage. I'm presenting this film here exactly as I found it. The rest of the episode is mostly missing, though in a separate video on my channel you can find some additional footage from the vintage car segment that starts at the end of this video.
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[@gregoryagogo]

I remember that downtown... a certain smell, mixed with sea air... Much more bustle and business...

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

I guess the Reporter has one of those Uher field recorders?

[@Baynewsvideo]

Bob Mills was on KOGO-10/ KGTV 10 from what I recall. Bob also did weather on KGTV. Bob and Jack White worked together. This is great old stuff!

[@computisoft2154]

Do you have some recordings of XETV 6?

[@lancelessard2491]

"A guy who's a bartender says, 'What can I do after I get right with the Lord?'" lol! As if being a bartender is a deal breaker with God. :-)

[@wolfeadventures]

God said don’t use ‘em? 😂