[Viking2002]

My late father was in the business for almost fifty years. I have a soft spot for old-school, weekend evening broadcasts, playing the classics. Many a Saturday and Sunday night did I spend an old radio station as a kid.......the old vacuum tubes, honest-to-God turntables, long-throw A/B mic switches and pot knobs the size of meat pies, the old newsfeed teletype clattering in a closet somewhere. Analog, baby. There was an atmosphere in the stations back then.

[Vision]

Sounds like cherished memories.

Love Bing hamming it up. And the old commercials.

[Erasmus]

RCA BC-1 consoles. Gates 12 and 16 inch turntables. Magnecorders and low-end Ampexes. Shure 55s’s, RCA 77DX’s, and E-V 666’s. Transmitters with 4-400A’s (AM & FM both!). Racks ‘n racks of 45’s, 33’s, and some 78’s. 16 inch 33-1/3 rpm ETs.

Saturday morning birthday/polka shows. County fairs. Farm and market reports phoned in every day. Serenade in Blue from the Air Force and Your Navy Sings, mailed in on tape you’d keep and reuse at the station.

Going around to the police & fire stations e-a-r-l-y in the morning to copy notes off the overnight blotters for the morning news, and combining them with rip-n-read from the AP or UPI model 19 teletype, getting your fingers inky in the process.

Those were the dayz!