NEW YORK, N.Y., July 2 (UPI) -- Though New York's Museum of Television and Radio houses some of pop culture's most obscure samplings, most visitors gravitate to the familiar.
The museum collection, housed in a mansion on West 52nd Street in Manhattan, has more than 100,000 commercials and radio and television programs, documenting U.S. broadcasting history, the New York Times reported Friday.
Visitors can view the first presidential ad ever aired, by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952; Farrah Fawcett's 1975 screen test for the sit-com "Welcome Back, Kotter"; and an animated cartoon version of "Star Trek," which ran on NBC from 1973 to 1975; as well as thousands of other famous or not so famous radio or TV moments.
Many visitors, however, venture to TV shows that are almost always in reruns, such as "I Love Lucy," "Seinfeld," and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
"Most people don't look for the interesting obscure stuff. They look for what they can remember," said Sean Foley, a museum librarian.
