Dear Gary and List, It is a little know fact that during Franklyn
McCormick's reign the transistor radio was making deep inroads in America.
Many a Eola switch engine, and I suspect many a Chicago job, had a small
radio propped up in the window as an engineer watch a couple switch lanterns
in the dark. By 4 am those couple lanterns looked like four or five.
Conductors working Congress Park late at night, had their waycars wired with
a workingmans hi fi by running a couple battery operated radios at each end
and many a night the "park" was switched within earshot of the Meister Brau
Showcase. The showcase went on until the late sixties in some from or
another if memory serves correct. Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Northrup" <gnorthrup@n...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Chicago After Dark
> WLS stood for "Worlds Largest Store". It was at one time owned by Sears
and
> Roebuck.
>
> Gary Northrup
> Still an armchair modeler
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> From: <PSHedgpeth@a...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>; <ritslist@s...>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:14 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Chicago After Dark
>
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> > 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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