Could get WLS in Delaware in 1964/65. Local R&R station went off the air at
midnight on Sunday-- flip to WLS and get another hour or more account of the
time difference. WOWO in Fort Wayne too.
Bill Uffelman
----- Original Message -----
From: "bill_og" <haywarb@b...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Chicago After Dark
> Pete,
>
> My grndmother had told me that WLS stood for "World's Largest Store"
> on account of Sears, Roebuck, & Co. either owning or being a big
> advertiser on WLS radio. My memories of WLS from my teens (1970s)
> are of their large broadcast area (I grew up 30 miles east of Quincy,
> IL) and that they played rock music around the clock.
>
> Bill H.
>
> --- In BRHSlist@y..., PSHedgpeth@a... wrote:
> > This topic is not strictly..or perhaps even remotely...railroad
> oriented, but
> > since the "vision" came to me while lying awake last night in the
> deep dark
> > hours between 1:00am and 5:00am thinking about the times I was
> driving around
> > the South Side of Chicago trying to keep awake it did arise
> on "company time"
> > so here's a little quiz for you old time Chicago guys.
> >
> > Part one: I used to listen to a program which came on at midnight
> over
> > WGN..I think..might have been WLS. The announcer was Franklyn
> McCormick...He
> > had a very soothing voice and about 2:00 am he would go to a
> certain place
> > and read Poetry. Question 1....where did he go to read the
> poetry???
> > Question 2...and you have to be 60 or better to tie into this one.
> What
> > other radio program do you connect with Franklyn McCormick. When I
> was
> > listening to his program in 1962-64 I thought that his voice had a
> > familiarity to it, but couldn't place it...In the 1970's I bought a
> > collection of records of old radio programs and all of a sudden in
> one of the
> > programs it dawned on me that FM was the announcer....What was the
> program.
> >
> > Part two: In trying to get back to sleep and thinking of other old
> stuff I
> > wondered how many folks know that radio station initials as one
> time stood
> > for something....Here's two that I can think of WLS Chicago and WSM
> Nashville
> > What did these initials stand for.
> >
> > The only prizes offered for correct answers is that you know you've
> got too
> > much time on your hands and that you are approaching old age.
> >
> > Pete
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