WCFL use to bleed over on part of the dispatchers phone line on the East End.
Often made for better listening then some brakeman trying to figure out how to
switch
sjh
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From: PSHedgpeth@a...
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com ; ritslist@s...
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: Chicago After Dark
My wife came upstairs awhile ago and said...;boy did you stir up something
with that Chicago after dark thing. I really did. Lots of good tries and
many good answers. I think that I got bawled out by the RITS moderator and
if I have one coming from BRHS I'll take it...consider it done Dave and John.
Just about everybody who answered got something right, but nobody answered
the question as to where Franklyn (note the spelling) went to read his
poetry...I had forgotten that the name of his show as the Meister Brau
Showcase...that sounds right....any Bohemians out there familiar with the
Meister Brau Polka...."Beer from Chicago...finest beer in town...beer from
Chicago drink it down, drink it down drink it down...Well that's enough of
that.
I was also enlightened re WCFL...I was trying to think of the station that
derived its name from the labor organizations, but couldn't come up with it
but someone did. Also I didn't know that WGN was Worlds Greatest Newspaper.
John Mitchell I thought National Life and Accident was We Serve Millions, but
Shield is probably right since it's an insurance company, and a very
profitable subsidiary of American General Life.
Well here's what you've been waiting for......After playing some very
soothing music starting about midnight, along about 2:00am or so Franklyn
would go into THE OLD STUDY and read some poetry and muse over various
topics.
Nobody got the other McCormick connection or even tried...In the interest of
easing the tremendous tension which this non railroad thread has built up.
Well how many of you really old guys remember Franklyn as the announcer on
JACK ARMSTRONG..the all american boy. (This one was on right after Terry and
the Pirates in the "after school lineup of kids programs...right before
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT )"Wave the flag for Hudson High boys"..."Have you tried
Wheaties...the best breakfast food in the land...have you tried
Wheaties..they're whole wheat with all of the bran......
All of the nights I spent driving around the south side of Chicago looking
after Rock Island's interests and listening to F. Mc I always thought that
there was something familiar about his voice....After I bought the old radio
records in th;e 1970's and heard a Jack Armstrong program it came back to me.
Pete
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