Hello Everyone from Bishop California

[JAV-Radio]

Hi, I love everything that has to do with Radio and Television, i love everything that has to do with Broadcasting, and im very happy to be here.

 

[radiofan2023]

Welcome! What stations do you like listening to/watching there?

 

[crainbebo]

Welcome from Idaho. You have a couple of really good radio stations in town. 92.5 KSRW's classic rock playlist is excellent and freeform; and 93.3 KRHV is also a unique radio station.

 

[Weiserguy]

Welcome. You might be interested to know that one of our regular participants, Michael Hagerty, is originally from Bishop.

 

[MadMan]

Welcome. You might be interested to know that one of our regular participants, Michael Hagerty, is originally from Bishop.

All this time I thought he was one of us, from Los Angeles?

Michael Hagerty, Age 8

 

[michael hagerty]

All this time I thought he was one of us, from Los Angeles?

Michael Hagerty, Age 8

Split upbringing, MadMan....born in L.A., moved to Bishop at age 9. My mom's side of the family had been there since 1920.

Hi, and welcome @JAV-Radio !

 

[fybush]

It's not just Michael!

I was at Deep Springs College in the late 1980s, so I know Bishop and the Owens Valley very well.

 

[radiofan2023]

Did any of you ever go to Mule Days? For anyone who doesn’t know what that is:

 

[michael hagerty]

Did any of you ever go to Mule Days? For anyone who doesn’t know what that is:

I was there for the first five of them (I was in eighth grade when it began in 1969).

It's impressive what it has turned into. The opening weekend of fishing season (fishing derby, big town picnic, parade), a month earlier, had been the town's biggest annual event prior to that for decades, and it took Mule Days a few years to catch up to it. Mule Days is now by far the more popular event.

 

[kwthom]

As part of Mule Days, there's a functioning display of the 20 mule teams pulling the wagons in the parade.

About a year ago, the fella that owned the mule teams passed away.

The guy that replicated those wagons years ago has a long-running YouTube series on various wagon-related items:

EngelsCoachShop

Welcome to the world's largest video library dedicated to preserving the wheelwright and wainwright trade. Restoring horse-drawn vehicles of the American West. 45 years of blacksmithing, wood working, steam bending wood, wheelwright, paint and striping, upholstery; this channel shares some...

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Been there a couple of times...Erick Schat's Bakery is still going strong.

 

[michael hagerty]

As part of Mule Days, there's a functioning display of the 20 mule teams pulling the wagons in the parade.

About a year ago, the fella that owned the mule teams passed away.

Bob Tanner. His daughter Suzy and I were classmates from 5th grade through senior year of high school.

Been there a couple of times...Erick Schat's Bakery is still going strong.

Schat's has one heck of a history---there's a line all the way back to a bakery opened by the Schoch family in Bishop in 1903.

Jack Schat was a Dutch immigrant whose family were bakers since 1893. He came to Bishop in 1950 at age 17, joined the Army a year later and in 1958 brought his whole family over from the Netherlands. They bought the bakery then.

It was just "Schat's Dutch Bakery" for decades, but sometime in the 80s, as the family began to spread out and open bakeries in other towns (Ukiah, Mammoth Lakes, Minden and Carson City), the Bishop bakery knocked down what used to be Village Liquor, built a new building and re-named as Erick Schat's Dutch Bakkery.

Eric passed in 2021 at the age of 79.

 

[KMan]

Schat's has one heck of a history---there's a line all the way back to a bakery opened by the Schoch family in Bishop in 1903.

Jack Schat was a Dutch immigrant whose family were bakers since 1893. He came to Bishop in 1950 at age 17, joined the Army a year later and in 1958 brought his whole family over from the Netherlands. They bought the bakery then.

It was just "Schat's Dutch Bakery" for decades, but sometime in the 80s, as the family began to spread out and open bakeries in other towns (Ukiah, Mammoth Lakes, Minden and Carson City), the Bishop bakery knocked down what used to be Village Liquor, built a new building and re-named as Erick Schat's Dutch Bakkery.

Eric passed in 2021 at the age of 79.

The various other Schat's are independently run bakeries by various other members of the family.

The Schat's in Mammoth is somewhat inferior to The O.G. in Bishop, where I am known to stop for a Mulekick sandwich after 3 or 4 days in the backcountry on my drive home to LA.

 

[infamouswb]

Greetings

 

[JAV-Radio]

Welcome! What stations do you like listening to/watching there?

I love listening to KBOV 1230 AM and KBPT-FM 96.1, while a lot of my TV viewing is on Cable, we do have 1 TV station in our area, KVME, and love watching MeTV Toons on 20.3.

 

[JAV-Radio]

Split upbringing, MadMan....born in L.A., moved to Bishop at age 9. My mom's side of the family had been there since 1920.

Hi, and welcome @JAV-Radio !

Thanks

 

[JAV-Radio]

It's not just Michael!

I was at Deep Springs College in the late 1980s, so I know Bishop and the Owens Valley very well.

Oh my Gosh! I really like your website, i remember coming across your Site of the Week for Bishop where you talk about KINC/KNYO/KESR 600 AM. I actually have some questions about the station, such as the dates of when it signed on, change call letters, and when did it go off the air. I put in a bit about 600 AM on the Independence Wiki in the Media tab, and cited you since you are the only person to talk about 600 AM. I have also found some old 600 AM ads on the Internet Archive.

 

[K.M. Richards]

I'm going to jump in here and suggest that you familiarize yourself not only with Michi's FCCdata.org site (which I cited in replying to you about 94.3) but also with David Eduardo Gleason's World Radio History site, especially as he has searchable scans of the entire run of Broadcasting Magazine and all of the Broadcasting Yearbooks.

I used the latter to pinch hit for Scott and give you a quick timeline:
September 1973 - CP (construction permit) for 600 issued, and call letters KINC requested and granted in November.
December 1974 - 600 goes on the air.
September 1978 - call letters changed to KNYO after an ownership change.
July 1983 - call letters changed to KESR after another ownership change .
May 1989 - call letters changed back to KNYO.
June 1992 - station went silent and license surrendered.

Oh, and in the future, I suggest you not tack these kind of requests onto your introductory post. You'll get answers a lot faster if you post in the appropriate forum (in this case, the one for all California-related subjects outside of the major markets).

 

[JAV-Radio]

I'm going to jump in here and suggest that you familiarize yourself not only with Michi's FCCdata.org site (which I cited in replying to you about 94.3) but also with David Eduardo Gleason's World Radio History site, especially as he has searchable scans of the entire run of Broadcasting Magazine and all of the Broadcasting Yearbooks.

I used the latter to pinch hit for Scott and give you a quick timeline:
September 1973 - CP (construction permit) for 600 issued, and call letters KINC requested and granted in November.
December 1974 - 600 goes on the air.
September 1978 - call letters changed to KNYO after an ownership change.
July 1983 - call letters changed to KESR after another ownership change .
May 1989 - call letters changed back to KNYO.
June 1992 - station went silent and license surrendered.

I have heard about World Radio History; the problem is that idk if it's my internet but i can't access the site, I do wish to write a Wikipedia page for 600 AM sometime in the future, and i could try going to the local library and try to see if I can access the website. But still, Thanks for all the Help .

 

[Delete My Account]

Welcome! I also enjoy KMMT 106.5 for its unique modern music mix, always discovering something new when I stream them.