the drink you should enjoy while watching the show ("Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."). For the CBS show, he redubbed the mythical drink a "simultini" as his show was also heard on selected radio stations. On July 28, 2005, Snyder announced he was deleting his website after six years, stating: "The novelty of communicating this way has worn off." On August 1, 2005, his page was abruptly taken offline. The front page was replaced with a white screen with the simple phrase: "Colortini is gone. Thanks for the Memories." However, some have been preserved. The domain name has since been reused for other purposes. Personal life In addition to being an avid model train collector, Snyder was also a car buff. On his radio and television programs, he would occasionally talk about current cars he owned as well as cars from the 1950s and 1960s he admired or owned in his teens and twenties. When Snyder left The Late Late Show in 1999, David Letterman gave him a white 1960 Cadillac Series 62 convertible as a going-away present. Final years and death In April 2005, Snyder revealed that he had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. In June 2006, he sold his home in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles, where he had lived for almost 30 years, and relocated to Belvedere, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he owned a second home. Snyder died of complications from leukemia on July 29, 2007, in San Francisco at the age of 71. Legacy Snyder was posthumously inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame in 2008. Credits Television Radio References External links (archived by Internet Archive on 2006-04-30) Career timeline (archived by Internet Archive on 2005-02-10) Archival video of Snyder (KYW-TV news footage from July 15, 1965) Tom Snyder Radio Show Episodes Tom Snyder's trains David Hinckley's tribute to Tom Snyder in the New York Daily News American talk radio hosts American television talk show hosts American people of German descent American people of Cornish descent American people of Irish descent Late night television talk show hosts Television anchors from Los Angeles Television anchors from New York City Television anchors from Philadelphia Radio personalities from Milwaukee People from the San Francisco Bay Area Marquette University alumni Deaths from chronic lymphocytic leukemia Deaths from cancer