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Jerry Williams... memories

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I know Jerry William's Daughter, she is in the process of moving and moving stuff to storage.

She has 4 HUGE boxes full of fan mail covering 50 years of Jerry's career

Last night she posted a picture of a book, Bah Bah Black Sheep by Greg "Pappy" Boyington from 1959, signed by Boyington with a note to Jerry, and one of Boyingtons business cards.

Can you imagine the contents of all the boxes she has in her garage?

Outside of David Brudnoy, I can't think of anyone else besides Jerry Williams that I would want to spend an afternoon looking through his archives...

I'm really hoping she will donate the stuff to Boston University to be digitized and cataloged.

It really is too valuable to be sitting in a self storage facility in Florida
 
Jerry's daughter should contact either Donna Halper or Massasoit College which is the current repository for the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Would BU's school of communication be interested? Think Emerson College might be a better choice. If Jerry had been on Public Radio instead of commercial radio BU would have probably built a buiding in his honor but...
Those files are too valuable to the history of Boston radio and to a high degree what was going on in the country and the world when Jerry was broadcasting to be lost.
As Jerry would say..... ." Wake Up, America ! "
 
Oh, boy memories, since High School I was a talk program junkie, liked Williams and Brudnoy. I remember was it WEEI cannot recall the station, Benzaquin, Westover, and many other hosts. oh, and Larry Glick and the woman who wrote for the Herald, her husband Dave Cane.

I know I am an oldie
 
I think you mean Norma Nathan of the Herald and the "Eye" and her husband of 'well tempered steel ... and a swell dancer..." The O'l Sport, Norm Nathan.
 
Ad Jerry Williams used to say:"we're all going to get on a big bus and go to the No Name..where the mayor can't get you for parking because it is free.Marvelous! You'll enjoy! Why? Because it's great, that's why--take the whole family; the check is not gonna kill your budget.The No Name--'odis onoma'..." (Also dropped name of Nick Contos)
 
Didn't the Sports Huddle ad promise that "the fish jump out of the water onto your plate." Not terribly appetizing, considering the condition of Boston Harbor.
 
First Durgin-Park, now No Name? Speaking of names, Williams was the cognomen Gerald Jacoby adopted for radio.
 
I'll always remember him for his stand against mandatory seat belt use and the subsequent repeal of the law by popular vote, which resulted in Massachusetts having to cover the "requires" in the signs that read "Massachusetts requires the use of seat belts" with "suggests" until the Legislature made seat belt use mandatory again a couple of years later.
 
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