1950's and 60's - Jumpin' Jack O'Brien Photo Gallery - click on image to enter Photo Gallery by Don Boyd at pbase.com

1950's and 60's - Jumpin' Jack O'Brien Photo Gallery - click on image to enter

Many thanks to Jumpin' Jack O'Brien for contributing these images of his exciting life in South Florida. NEW: TV producer Chuck Stewart has a great black and white Jack O'Brien video posted on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUUglrY7RA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtyLFqiQNg (The Best of Jumpin' Jack O'Brien)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K79hXEipNCI (Scuba Weather/WPLG)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUGWuoZRk4U (A Municipal Auto Sales spot)

For those of you who are new to computing and/or surfing the internet, this is just one page of many pages of photos on this site. The home page for our Old Hialeah/Old Miami galleries is at http://www.pbase.com/donboyd/memories and all the oldie galleries spin off from that page. You can also click on the yellow colored >>Memories of Old Hialeah, Old Miami and Old South Florida Photo Galleries << at top of any page to get back to the main oldies page to search other galleries.

1957 - Deanna Briggs being crowned as Miss Miami Beach 1957 by Marcia Valibus, Miss Miami Beach 1956	1957 - Deanna Briggs, Miss Miami Beach 1957 (center) - to become Mrs. Jack O'Brien	1957 - Miss Florida Pageant - Deanna Briggs 12th from left	1957 - Miss Florida Pageant - left half of image	1957 - Miss Florida Pageant - Deanna Briggs 2nd from left - right half of image
1957 - UM Miss Florida 1957 contestants Dorothy Steiner, Deanna Briggs, Rhona Berube, Adrianne Goyette and Rosemary Morris	1957 - Deanna Briggs, the future Mrs. Jack O'Brien, as Miss Transportation 1957 in Dade County	1957 - Deanna Briggs, Miss Miami Beach 1957, and the local Jaycees	1960s - Jumpin' Jack O'Brien belting them out on his TV show	Jack O'Brien doing a commercial for Municipal Auto Sales on 36th Street in Miami
Jack O'Brien doing a Municipal Auto Sales commercial	1960s - "Jumpin" Jack O'Brien promotional photo	1960s - Captain Jack with Banjo Billy and Jumpin' Jack O'Brien	1960s - Jumpin' Jack O'Brien and flying pies	1960s - "Jumpin" Jack's Channel 10 Sell Sheet with Lester the Lazy Lion and Jack E Parrot
1960s - Membership cards for Jumpin' Jack's "Four O'Clock Club" and "Jumpin' Jack's Club" on Channel 10

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Chuck Stewart		28-Jun-2009 21:41
Jumpin' Jack has a new Facebook group for all members. Check it out. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=198631575566

Pokey		06-Feb-2009 21:32
Charlie If you are still out there, I also remember Jack from the old go kart days at Hialeah and Medley speedways, Would like to talk to you about the karting days I can be found on the Hialeah site most of the time take care Pokey

the bassest		28-Mar-2008 16:52
In the early 60's I was part of a great south Florida band known as Russ Samuel & the Vanguards. I remember having Jumpin' Jack O'Brien sit in with us one night on drums, the man could play. We had trouble getting our regular drummer back on stage so he could earn a few bucks.

Guest		25-Jan-2008 00:34
Jumpin' Jack's 4 o'Clock Club was the "babysitter" for thousands of us Miami kids who'd come home from school two hours before our parents got home from work. When people do a show like that, I wonder if they realize how those small viewers will keep all those good times inside them for the rest of their lives? Once when Jack O'Brien was doing sports on ch10 and discussing a grid team's fumble problems, he presented a solution by holding up a football with a handle attached. :D --X1

Don Boyd		02-Jan-2008 07:27
Hi Rich, I'm sorry to hear about your mom's present condition. I'll send you a private e-mail. Don

Rich Peil		02-Jan-2008 03:16
Hi! My name is Rich Peil, and my Mother was Miss Sarasota 1957. I am here in Sarasota with her right now as she is in a Hospice House in the last few days of her life. We have Mom's pictures from this 1957 pageant in her room, and many come in to see the album of their "local celebrity". If you would like more pictures or information, please send me an email. Mom was runner up in the Florida Pageant and went on to New York where she was in a couple of TV shows and one Movie "Winds Over the Everglades" She later went on to get married and settle down in Minneapolis and then in her 50's earn her Masters Degree and work for many years helping women in the end of their lives. She is a great lady who has touched so many!

Guest		22-Dec-2007 07:26
Hi Jack (take me to cuba) Do you have any tapes of your show or Banjo Billys Funboat? Is Banjo and Jack still with us. Could you post a new photo of yourself.

Guest		23-Nov-2007 22:02
Believe it or not, I actually had my 7th birthday party (1965) on the Banjo Billy Funboat TV show. Good god, this is amazing

charlie		21-Oct-2007 00:14
I remember waiting to start our go-kart race for Jack to arrive by heli to be in the race this was in the early 60's

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