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[michaelhagerty]

Re: Publix, how do you know Publix?

One of my other cool jobs (besides programming a TV station, producing and hosting a weekly show about cars and finding myself on the radio every so often) is announcer for the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car auction. It's been going on here in Scottsdale each January for 35 years, but the past three years, there's also been a Palm Beach auction, so I'm in South Florida for a few days every spring.

Publix fascinated me (a total western kid), since when you say "Supermarket" to me, I picture a building the size of a city block and "acres of free parking". Once I got over the issues of smaller scale, I found the stores to be very pleasant (although all I was in there for was to buy a long-distance card and a disposable camera).

---Michael Hagerty

 

[miamimadman]

Well they're no Smith's Food Center's with 26 Departments

I happen to live right near the largest Publix in the 6 States they serve, both in volume and size, it's an amazing store!. Believe it or not Publix is the 10th largest Grocery chain in the Country (privately owned by the employees). Got a chuckle out of your Bashas reply!. My first job as a kid in the SFV was at Alexander’s Markets. A little tiny chain, and the stores were small too. I'd say the Lucky inside the Gemco was small too. Where do go when you come to Miami?. What TV Station do you program, you can’t use a wounded ex Radio guy, can you?. Taking this position with the Fed's in fake Cuban broadcasting was one of the worst decisions I ever made. I applied at the VOA to work in Washington, and they sent me to a position where I don’t speak the Language, and I was running a live Master Control room, similar to a KABC, or KNX KCBS, or KFWB, except in Spanish. 7 Years and I lost my mind. I want to come back to the West. Michael, about that Car auction, I know someone else who ‘claimed’ to do that. Ted Lake, a.k.a. William Hazellet, do you know him. He worked part time at KBLA 1580 when we became "L.A.'s all Business Station". Why we had Chuck Ashman from KTTV doing "California Drive" (Afternoons). The station was a miserable failure, and so was Johnny Darrin, our leader. Ted/William was strange, his wife worked at KTLA, and then they moved back to Scottsdale, she worked in TV there too. Write me a line if you can!

Scott

[email protected]

> One of my other cool jobs (besides programming a TV station,
> producing and hosting a weekly show about cars and finding
> myself on the radio every so often) is announcer for the
> Barrett-Jackson Collector Car auction. It's been going on
> here in Scottsdale each January for 35 years, but the past
> three years, there's also been a Palm Beach auction, so I'm
> in South Florida for a few days every spring.
>
> Publix fascinated me (a total western kid), since when you
> say "Supermarket" to me, I picture a building the size of a
> city block and "acres of free parking". Once I got over the
> issues of smaller scale, I found the stores to be very
> pleasant (although all I was in there for was to buy a
> long-distance card and a disposable camera).
>
> ---Michael Hagerty
>

 

[michaelhagerty]

Re: Well they're no Smith's Food Center's with 26 Departments

> I happen to live right near the largest Publix in the 6
> States they serve, both in volume and size, it's an amazing
> store!. Believe it or not Publix is the 10th largest Grocery
> chain in the Country (privately owned by the employees). Got
> a chuckle out of your Bashas reply!. My first job as a kid
> in the SFV was at Alexander’s Markets. A little tiny chain,
> and the stores were small too. I'd say the Lucky inside the
> Gemco was small too. Where do go when you come to Miami?.
> What TV Station do you program, you can’t use a wounded ex
> Radio guy, can you?. Taking this position with the Fed's in
> fake Cuban broadcasting was one of the worst decisions I
> ever made. I applied at the VOA to work in Washington, and
> they sent me to a position where I don’t speak the Language,
> and I was running a live Master Control room, similar to a
> KABC, or KNX KCBS, or KFWB, except in Spanish. 7 Years and I
> lost my mind. I want to come back to the West. Michael,
> about that Car auction, I know someone else who ‘claimed’ to
> do that. Ted Lake, a.k.a. William Hazellet, do you know him.
> He worked part time at KBLA 1580 when we became "L.A.'s all
> Business Station". Why we had Chuck Ashman from KTTV doing
> "California Drive" (Afternoons). The station was a miserable
> failure, and so was Johnny Darrin, our leader. Ted/William
> was strange, his wife worked at KTLA, and then they moved
> back to Scottsdale, she worked in TV there too. Write me a
> line if you can!
>
> Scott
>
> [email protected]
>
Scott: I'll reply to most of that in an e-mail, but in case anybody cares about the broadcast part, I program an independent TV station in Phoenix, KAZT (AZ-TV). It operated for 20 years as KUSK, Prescott (90 miles north of Phoenix) until being bought by the current owner in 2002 and re-launched as AZ-TV. It was largely retro comedies (The Honeymooners, My Three Sons), had a decent launch and then lost altitude. In fall, 2003, the GM asked me to replace the original PD. We weeded out a lot of stuff that didn't work and have had successive record sweeps from February, 2004 onward. We're getting more contemporary, too, having beaten the other, more established stations in bidding for My Wife & Kids, According To Jim and The George Lopez Show, and having taken the rights to Frasier away from longtime market leader KTVK.

---Michael Hagerty

 

[gr8oldies]

Re: I thought Dees Worked at KHJ

There's an aircheck of Dees on KHJ on the reelradio site..just enter "KHJ" into the search box.<P ID="signature">______________
OK, I'm gonna vote Democratic next time..just to have a break from liberal whining.</P>

 

[gr8oldies]

When listening to an aircheck of KHJ, etc. and marveling at how "broad" the music was, we forget that an hour and a half later, most of those same songs played again. Three hours later, they played again. Even I knew growing up that stations like CKLW played music for me, and music for may parents. I knew if I had a sick day from school the music wouldn't be as good.<P ID="signature">______________
OK, I'm gonna vote Democratic next time..just to have a break from liberal whining.</P>

 

[accessdlp]

You can go several steps further. Some of the classic oldies jocks, like Brian Beirne are available, so is Shadoe Stevens, ex-KRLA. I would think a modified version of Saul Levine's two week "Shuffle" experiment would work great. Not to mention those great KHJ jingles.

I would not expect more than a 1 out of it, but it would talked about!

Bring it!

Don

 

[MadMan]

>In 1982 I worked with Bobby Tripp's
> son Reese at Gelson's, kind of like a gourmet Bashas.

Actually, there is a gourmet Bashas...it's called AJ's (owned by Bashas). It's kind of like Gelson's.....

;-)

---Michael Hagerty
(wondering how, after Gelson's, Miamimadman fares at Publix)

Our only Grocery store in Needles, a gross disgusting Bashas and it closed last year, leaving California with their one store to be replaced by a 99 Cents Only Store. I need to leave this meth town!

 

[TheBigA]

wow

 

[LKellerIII]

Our only Grocery store in Needles, a gross disgusting Bashas and it closed last year, leaving California with their one store to be replaced by a 99 Cents Only Store. I need to leave this meth town!

So you're saying "Needles" is aptly named? I stopped in Needles on a trip one summer. I like heat, but that town could be re-named "Hell." I can't imagine why anybody would want to live there.

 

[michael hagerty]

So you're saying "Needles" is aptly named? I stopped in Needles on a trip one summer. I like heat, but that town could be re-named "Hell." I can't imagine why anybody would want to live there.

I drove through just once...28 years ago. It makes Blythe look like Newport Beach...Bakersfield like Carmel. From Wikipedia:

On July 22, 2006, Needles experienced a record high low temperature, with a temperature recorded to be 100 °F (38 °C) at 6:00 AM with a high temperature exceeding 120 °F (49 °C).[7]

On August 13, 2012, Needles experienced a thunderstorm that deposited rain at a temperature of 115 °F (46 °C) starting at 3:56 PM, setting a new record for the hottest rain in world history. The air temperature was 118 °F (48 °C), tying Needles' record high for the date. Since the humidity was only 11%, the rain evaporated so that "only a trace of precipitation was recorded in the rain gauge". Weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera reported that this was the lowest humidity at which rain has occurred on Earth in recorded history.[8]

 

[LKellerIII]

Wow. When you think of places like the Gobi and Sahara deserts, those stats are hard to imagine, Michael. But given my 2 hours in Needles, I believe it.

 

[landtuna]

Just for grins, Phoenix this morning had a dew point of 0F. Yes, that's zero! RH was 11% and that isn't the lowest it has ever been. AND, that was at the highest humidity point of the day. I was shootin' sparks from my fingertips after strolling across the outdoor carpet just now. Really pisses off the cat!!!

 

[Thomps2525]

In the Peanuts comic strips, Snoopy's brother Spike lived in Needles. That fact, and the heat, are the town's two claims to fame. According to Erwin G. Gudde's book California Place Names---published by University of California Press in 1949 and revised in 1960 and 1969---the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad (which became the Santa Fe) established a station and post office on February 18, 1883, on the Arizona side of the Colorado River. The native Americans called the nearby peaks Asientic Häbl, which means "The Needles," so the new settlement became Needles. On October 11, 1883, the railroad transferred the name to a new town on the California side of the river because executives thought that the California town was better suited for a railroad stop.