tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post114765062377565216..comments2024-01-03T15:30:05.586-05:00Comments on Home in the railroad earth: Radio Dayssteve on the slow trainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1152825932125191582006-07-13T17:25:00.000-04:002006-07-13T17:25:00.000-04:00This is one of two times I can remember when someo...This is one of two times I can remember when someone described in a blog post responded to it. Delightful!<BR/><BR/>I may have listened to Dale years ago, since WHO came in loud and strong on the Virginia coast in the sixties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1151068117415733142006-06-23T09:08:00.000-04:002006-06-23T09:08:00.000-04:00Thank you, Dale, for your kind comments. You're r...Thank you, Dale, for your kind comments. You're right that the left-right political spectrum depends on context. In the Iowa City of the early 1970s, some people called me conservative, while in Elkhart, Indiana of the 1990s, I was nearly a radical. My politics hadn't changed much--just my location. I'm glad you left WHO for a better job, and not because of ratings or politics. Best wishes for a continued happy retirement.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1148384938319834392006-05-23T07:48:00.000-04:002006-05-23T07:48:00.000-04:00I had QSL cards from both of these Chicago station...I had QSL cards from both of these Chicago stations. WLS was the undisputed big station, and WCFL is where my childhood idol Larry O'Brian ended up. Like you, I had a harder time pulling in WCFL, and I was in Tidewater, Virginia.<BR/><BR/>The biggest top-forty seemed to be WABC with "Cousin Brucie." I remember Jack Armstrong alluding to him from the other end of the state with apparent envy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1148008513764798282006-05-18T23:15:00.000-04:002006-05-18T23:15:00.000-04:00Thanks for the interesting reply, Peter. I had to ...Thanks for the interesting reply, Peter. I had to look up QSL. Apparently some stations still send them, or send QSL e-mails. There were two big top-40 stations in Chicago: WLS (World' Largest Store--once owned by Sears), and WCFL, which was then owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Even though CFL was a 50,000 watt station, I could rarely hear it in Iowa--apparently its signal was beamed to the east. Both stations had good deejays, but the only one I really remember is Larry Lujack, who came from Quasqueton, Iowa.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-1147996442783520582006-05-18T19:54:00.000-04:002006-05-18T19:54:00.000-04:00I got a QSL card from WHO in the 1960s. I don't k...I got a QSL card from WHO in the 1960s. I don't know if clear channel stations still send these postcards to distant listeners, but I loved collecting them. Like you, I had a transistor radio and loved AM radio at night, when the 50,000 watts could skip off of the ionosphere. I lived on the Virginia coast and got QSL's from New Orleans, Chicago, and St. Louis. It was like surfing the net. My QSL card requests felt a lot like posting comments on blog sites, only slower.<BR/><BR/>Unlike you, I never listened to talk radio back then. I loved deejays, though, and the 60s were the heydays for deejays. When one of my favorites moved from Norfolk to Chicago, I pulled in his station when the weather allowed just to hear him. The Chicago station had the same top-40 format as his old Norfolk one, but he was much more subdued and no longer called himself "The Mouth of the South."<BR/><BR/>Then, in the early seventies, I listened to Jack Armstrong, the All-American Freak, on WKBW in Buffalo. He is the only person I've ever heard who was incomprehensible only because of how fast he talked. He was my idol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com