Old Radio Show

[DAKA]

Anyone old enough to remember this old show

Duffy's Tavern  .......Archie the manager speaking

[Batesmotel]

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[Batesmotel]

6 hours ago, DAKA said:

Anyone old enough to remember this old show

Duffy's Tavern  .......Archie the manager speaking

A station here used to play tapes of old shows. 

[Huaco Kid]

"Hello,  I'd like you to page a customer;  last name "Jazz",  first name "Hugh".

"Why you little ^%%$##% ^&&!!!!!  I'll put you in the blender and serve you for happy hour!!!!"

[Huaco Kid]

When I was pretty little,  there was an AM radio station (WQED Pittsburgh?) that ran a regular "Mystery" show.

(It might've been "live"?)

I don't remember a bad one,  that didn't keep me riveted,  late at night,  when I should have been sleeping.

You'd be snuggled in, listening, with one hand below the bed,  holding on the radio cord,  ready to pull the plug,  if you heard Mom coming.

(we didn't have internet porn back then.  Forbidden late-night AM radio was pretty risky.)

[Huaco Kid]

Pulling the radio plug was just like deleting your internet cache and  logging-off.

Nothing to see here.

::snore::

[janice6]

I went to a ham radio flea market and bought my wife an old cathedral 30/40's radio.  I came home and dropped the tail gate, and she came out to see what we had purchased. 

I said I bought her an old radio!  She said what am I going to do with it?  I said listen to old radio programs! (I was being a smart ass)  I plugged it in.

I swear on my mother's grave, when it came on it was the Phil Silvers show from long ago!

It just happened to be a replay of old radio shows when It came on.

My wife damned near fainted!  She still has it!

  Never say never!  I'm a fan of statistics but I also know **** like this also happens!

[railfancwb]

9 hours ago, janice6 said:

I went to a ham radio flea market and bought my wife an old cathedral 30/40's radio.  I came home and dropped the tail gate, and she came out to see what we had purchased. 

I said I bought her an old radio!  She said what am I going to do with it?  I said listen to old radio programs! (I was being a smart ass)  I plugged it in.

I swear on my mother's grave, when it came on it was the Phil Silvers show from long ago!

It just happened to be a replay of old radio shows when It came on.

My wife damned near fainted!  She still has it!

  Never say never!  I'm a fan of statistics but I also know **** like this also happens!

I now own my parents’ old mid-1930s table top radio. My brother got it as we were cleaning out the house when mother had to go to assisted living. After he passed his widow offered it to me.

Wish I could get it to play again. 

[railfancwb]

That old mid1930s radio supposedly would play standard AM - what we still have today - police band, and one or more short wave bands. Night time signal skip was a feature allowing one to listen to many of the “clear channel” high wattage AM stations. 

[janice6]

6 hours ago, railfancwb said:

That old mid1930s radio supposedly would play standard AM - what we still have today - police band, and one or more short wave bands. Night time signal skip was a feature allowing one to listen to many of the “clear channel” high wattage AM stations. 

As a youngster I could lay in my bed on the second floor at night, and watch the tower lights for WCCO one of the "Clear Channel" radio stations in the U.S.

They ran 100,000 Watts.  later in time, I'm in the same neighbor hood and the power from the radio station would cause visible sparking on some of our chain link fencing, we are that close to the station.

I had a bitch of a time getting WCCO signals out of my ham radio transmitters due to it's very high "field strength" at my location.  Any break in my shielding of my transmitter would cause me to re-broadcast WCCO audio.  It was a bear to clean up.

[railfancwb]

This clear channel station - WSM - is fairly close to where I live now. My father listened to various clear channel stations on the radio I pictured earlier when I was growing up, probably including this one. None anywhere close to where we lived though. 

[tous]

St. Louis had KMOX, only 50,000 watts clear channel.

I could receive KMOX on my car radio for 500-700 miles, Depending on which direction I was going.  South, no problem.

North, lost the signal around Springfield, Illinois.

West, signal didn't last even as close as Columbia.

I used to be able to listen to Cub baseball games on WLS at night.

 

I had a short-wave receiver and occasionally found something interesting to listen to, but most of the dial was  a loud, staccato roar which I think were teletypes.

 

[railfancwb]

For those interested in the old radio shows, many have been made available on CD/DVD. eBay sellers offer some and no doubt there are other sources.

Fibber McGee and Mollie anyone?

[janice6]