Posted on 09/01/2018 7:22:52 PM PDT by nanetteclaret
Not so much WLS (used to listen to WBBM at night, though).
I remember driving from the LA metro to Georgia once on a PCS move and picking KFI up all the way to Phoenix (and this is during the daytime btw). After the sun went down, I was able to get them all the way to Deming NM.
(And, yes, I was CONSIDERABLY younger...was able to do the drive from Los Angeles to Georgia in 3 days...a WHOLE LOT younger)
Where were you located?
As a kid in the 50s I assembled a little radio kit with a coil and listened at night in my bedroom to The station.
We used to pick it up on the skip and rebroadcast WLS at night (with their permission) on Michigan Tech’s carrier current radio station in the 1970’s
Yup......Northern Minnesota.
Bill Bailey John Landecker Lyle Dean......the golden age of radio!
But Bill Mack kept me awake many a night. Midnight Trucking Show.
Yes, I had a little square black transistor, & then “upgraded” to one of those ball transistors they had in the 70’s. We all had those 1-ear plugs, that I laugh now that kids have them again - ear buds!
Yep, I remember right after the Ranger game ended, you heard the beginning of “The Orange Blossom Special.”
I listened to WLS here in central North Dakota, about 30 miles from the Canadian border. Also listened to KOA out of Oklahoma and CKCK and CKY out of Canada. Mostly though, I tuned into KFYR out of Bismarck ND. They used to advertise “heard in 7 states and 2 Canadian provinces.
I remember there were also a few times we got TV Skip. I even got TV stations all the way from Canada a few times down in Florida.
I listened to Radio Mystery Theater on my GE Musaphonic at night. Great show! I remember the sound of the creaking door at the opening of the show then E G Marshall would set the scene up.
Once in a while from St. Louis and Southeast MO, but that’s only 300 miles and only barely considered DX
And then there were the Mexican stations. The most famous being XERF, home of Wolfman Jack, and celebrated in the ZZ Top song, “Heard It On the X”.
Bookmark
Nothing beats “The theater of the mind”.
I listened in Cleveland, TN when I was 13/14. I remember very well a New Year’s Eve collage of every hit song from the early sixties to the mid seventies. It was the first time I had heard snippets of many songs. Unforgettable.
Where were you located?
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We were working for HKU living in the High West faculty quarters about 1/3 of the way up Mount Victoria on the South East side of HK Island.
Wolfman Jack has been around forever!
Driving to Florida on spring break in a Ford Pinto in 1979, after watching the Georgia Highway Patrol shift change at the Waffle House north of Macon, I was told I had the 2 a.m. to sunrise shift. While my buddies slept, I tried to find something worth listening to on the AM radio, which was all the car had. The atmospherics that night were not good, as all I could find was local stuff.
AM radion at 3 a.m. in southern Georgia in 1979 did not have much to offer a midwest college kid.
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