Priceless Memories - Bob Barker [91]
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With some of my Emmys.
Receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmys.
The plaque commemorating the 5,000th show and naming Studio 33 the Bob Barker Studio.
With a happy winner on The Price Is Right.
A special Price Is Right for the army.
Dorothy Jo with the yellow Studebaker in front of our duplex in Lake Worth, Florida, 1950.
The ads Dorothy Jo and I modeled for in Florida for Kool-motor Motor Oil.
The ads Dorothy Jo and I modeled for in Florida for Kool-motor Motor Oil.
Dorothy Jo and me, Christmas 1965, at a friend’s house.
With Dorothy Jo on the stairs of our home.
Getting my star on the Walk of Fame, May 5, 1976. My mother is on the far left, Dorothy Jo and Ralph Edwards are beside me.
Dorothy Jo and me.
Running on the beach in Biloxi during the 1980 Miss USA pageant.
Hosting the Miss USA pageant.
With past winners of Miss USA and Miss Universe.
Nancy Burnet and me leading an antifur march down Fifth Avenue in New York City, 1990.
Adam Sandler and me on location shooting Happy Gilmore.
Adam Sandler and me arriving in a golf cart for the premiere of Happy Gilmore.
Taping the special celebrating my fifty years on television in 2007, with announcer Rich Fields and Barker’s Beauties.
Dennis Weaver, Dinah Shore, and me on The Dinah Shore Show.
Hosting The Bob Barker Fun and Games Show in St. Louis the night we broke the attendance record at the Old Checkerboard Dome.
Jackie Chan holds the bag for me, around 1975, just after he arrived in the United States.
With Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, grand marshals of the Rose Parade.
With actress and my co-host June Lockhart interviewing the 1970 Rose Parade grand marshals: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon, and Alan L. Bean.
Interviewing parade grand marshal Lee Iacocca.
Loretta Swit, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and me at an antivivisection press conference.
With Nancy Burnet.
Holding an award from PAWS for my efforts on behalf of the Project X chimpanzees.
Testifying in Washington before a subcommittee of the Department of Agriculture regarding the treatment of captive elephants.
My house.
Ed Stewart, Nancy Burnet, me, and Pat Derby at the PAWS Wildlife Sanctuary near San Andreas, California, May 2008.
With my family at home: Bob Valandra, Peter Kelly, Julie Valandra holding her son Noah, me, Hannah Valandra, Kent Valandra, Vicky Valandra-Kelly, and Kent Valandra Jr.
Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
PREFACE
A Phone Call from Ralph Edwards
CHAPTER 1
Truth or Consequences, My First National Show
CHAPTER 2
I Go to Work for Mark Goodson, Too
CHAPTER 3
Contestants and Celebrities I’ve Met
CHAPTER 4
Dorothy Jo: Wife and Partner
CHAPTER 5
My Years on the Reservation
CHAPTER 6
Tilly–What a Mom!
CHAPTER 7
Up, Up, and Away as a Naval Aviation Cadet
CHAPTER 8
Let Me Tell You of Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, and Ducks
CHAPTER 9
What’s Right About The Price Is Right
CHAPTER 10
Hurray for Hollywood!1950–1981
CHAPTER 11
The Beauty Pageants and the “Fur Flap”
CHAPTER 12
Touching Bases from Happy Gilmore to the Rose Parade
CHAPTER 13
DJ&T Foundation
CHAPTER 14
Retirement Can Keep You Busy
Photo Credits
Photo Insert
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Bob Barker
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