Who's Talking Salem - Ep 7 - Bob Berthel and the Salem archives
From What's Up Salem? by Town Of Salem
June 3, 2026 · 18 min · Season 2 · Episode 7
About this episode
Host Tom Giarrosso interviews Salem archivist Bob Berthel about the digital restoration of historic videotape reels.
Host Tom Giarrosso talks with Salem archivist Bob Berthel about the recent digital restoration of dozens of recovered videotape reels from the 1970's and 80's that were stored at Salem High School. These are some of the earliest video recordings from the Town and are finally seeing the light of day after 50 years.
People in this episode
Host: Tom Giarrosso
Guest: Bob Berthel
Topics covered
- digital restoration
- Salem archives
- videotape reels
- local history
- 1970s
- 1980s
Keywords
- Salem
- archives
- videotape
- digital restoration
- local history
- 1970s
- 1980s
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Salem High School
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