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Hey Prais... You provoke some warm memories.
Yes, WTAQ was a fun station. It gave a bit of an ego boost to Lyons Township High School that WTAQ did the play-by-play of high school games (Ralph Faucher, in fact, who also assisted with the White Sox on the other "Q", WMAQ!), and of course WTAQ's 5,000 watts on 1300 could be heard all over the Chicago area (except, ironically, sometimes on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago where WOOD would come in from across Lake Michigan!).
It was S & S Broadcasting Company, as in Salter and Sebastian. Russ Salter bowed out to manage WKKD AM & FM in Aurora, WBEL in South Beloit, WRWC in Rockton, and one station in Iowa. Bill Ward - who hosted "Q Line" - the daily talk show which ran from 1--3 p.m., as I recall - was your classic conservative, but a not in-your-face conservative. I'll always have warm memories as he gave me a pay raise about a month into my summer employment!
The man who held the title of "news director" (Al Mann) was a piece of work who would've made Les Nessman look major market, normal. He believed the Russian czar and family had actually survived the Bolshevik Revolution, and continued to live into the 1960's and '70's, although covertly, to prevent assassination. He seemed to spend much of his time writing and editing a Czarist Revival newsletter, which he sent to other Czarists restorationists around the U.S.!
Another announcer with classic pipes - who did much of the production work and I believe the logs - I discovered actually "lived" in a room at the station. He would walk to a bar each night NW on Joliet Road; then return to the station after having imbibed. I only discovered this after coming back to the station one night after a particularly long village board meeting.
If you submitted your mileage report to management, WTAQ would gas up your car right there; the station maintained a gas pump on the grounds!
To your Chicago FM radio references---
I remember visiting WCLM (101.9) in the mid-1960's. As I recall, you took a rickety elevator to the 63rd floor of a tall building on North Michigan Avenue. The station appeared to be on its last legs, and it eventually went off-the-air, I believe, because of an illegal horse-race broadcast on its subcarrier!
Those were the days when FM stations weren't necessarily that profitable, difficult as it would be to imagine even a decade later. Some stations still didn't have cart-machines.
WDHF 95.5. - owned then by the "National Science Network" - which was to become WMET under Metromedia, and still later, WNUA -- was always a very interesting place with wonderful people.
I remember when WMET had Dan Walker - "the Governor of rock 'n roll" (Democratic maverick Dan Walker was Illinois' Governor at the time!) -- hosting P.M. drive. As I recall, he reeked of Ben-Gay, or something similar. He also jocked two or three feet away from the microphone, as he'd literally shout out everything.
The WMET news department was fairly innovative at the time, routinely incorporating natural sound in stand-ups at a time when the A.M. stations seldom did that! Then-news director Dave Alpert eventually ended up as a producer at ABC News, and veteran Chicago radio newsman Bob Roberts - now a lead street reporter at WBBM Newsradio -- cut his Chicago major-market teeth at WMET, as I recall.
Then you had WXFM, which moved into the old WCLM studio; WKFM (103.5); WRSV--Skokie; and others.
And lest we forget, three commercially-licensed Chicago classical music stations - WFMT, of course, but also Zenith's WEFM, and WNIB.
A lot of the Chicago area's FM high school radio stations also signed on-the-air in the 1950's and 1960's.
Regrettably, at least two went dark by the late 1970's: Rich East's WRHS and Glenbard West's WGHS.
(The roof from Glenbard West - with the WGHS antenna - provided one of coolest views of the Chicago skyline you could get from that far west in DuPage County - Glen Ellyn.)
As I navigate this nostalgia tour, I recall visiting the Chicago-licensed stations that happened to have their studios in the northwestern suburbs around Addison -- WAIT and WJJD - both in fairly non-descript buildings, as I recall. They didn't get many visits from the public, and everyone was exceedingly friendly.
I still think WAIT was truly the classic beautiful music station, and WJJD had an interesting run as a country station.
Back to WFXW/WGSB, the original subject of this post, I recall jokes about Nelda Brickhouse being so naiive, she thought the station might be able to use encased candles on the towers to reduce the electric bill! I never met her, so I don't know!
Yes, WTAQ was a fun station. It gave a bit of an ego boost to Lyons Township High School that WTAQ did the play-by-play of high school games (Ralph Faucher, in fact, who also assisted with the White Sox on the other "Q", WMAQ!), and of course WTAQ's 5,000 watts on 1300 could be heard all over the Chicago area (except, ironically, sometimes on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago where WOOD would come in from across Lake Michigan!).
It was S & S Broadcasting Company, as in Salter and Sebastian. Russ Salter bowed out to manage WKKD AM & FM in Aurora, WBEL in South Beloit, WRWC in Rockton, and one station in Iowa. Bill Ward - who hosted "Q Line" - the daily talk show which ran from 1--3 p.m., as I recall - was your classic conservative, but a not in-your-face conservative. I'll always have warm memories as he gave me a pay raise about a month into my summer employment!
The man who held the title of "news director" (Al Mann) was a piece of work who would've made Les Nessman look major market, normal. He believed the Russian czar and family had actually survived the Bolshevik Revolution, and continued to live into the 1960's and '70's, although covertly, to prevent assassination. He seemed to spend much of his time writing and editing a Czarist Revival newsletter, which he sent to other Czarists restorationists around the U.S.!
Another announcer with classic pipes - who did much of the production work and I believe the logs - I discovered actually "lived" in a room at the station. He would walk to a bar each night NW on Joliet Road; then return to the station after having imbibed. I only discovered this after coming back to the station one night after a particularly long village board meeting.
If you submitted your mileage report to management, WTAQ would gas up your car right there; the station maintained a gas pump on the grounds!
To your Chicago FM radio references---
I remember visiting WCLM (101.9) in the mid-1960's. As I recall, you took a rickety elevator to the 63rd floor of a tall building on North Michigan Avenue. The station appeared to be on its last legs, and it eventually went off-the-air, I believe, because of an illegal horse-race broadcast on its subcarrier!
Those were the days when FM stations weren't necessarily that profitable, difficult as it would be to imagine even a decade later. Some stations still didn't have cart-machines.
WDHF 95.5. - owned then by the "National Science Network" - which was to become WMET under Metromedia, and still later, WNUA -- was always a very interesting place with wonderful people.
I remember when WMET had Dan Walker - "the Governor of rock 'n roll" (Democratic maverick Dan Walker was Illinois' Governor at the time!) -- hosting P.M. drive. As I recall, he reeked of Ben-Gay, or something similar. He also jocked two or three feet away from the microphone, as he'd literally shout out everything.
The WMET news department was fairly innovative at the time, routinely incorporating natural sound in stand-ups at a time when the A.M. stations seldom did that! Then-news director Dave Alpert eventually ended up as a producer at ABC News, and veteran Chicago radio newsman Bob Roberts - now a lead street reporter at WBBM Newsradio -- cut his Chicago major-market teeth at WMET, as I recall.
Then you had WXFM, which moved into the old WCLM studio; WKFM (103.5); WRSV--Skokie; and others.
And lest we forget, three commercially-licensed Chicago classical music stations - WFMT, of course, but also Zenith's WEFM, and WNIB.
A lot of the Chicago area's FM high school radio stations also signed on-the-air in the 1950's and 1960's.
Regrettably, at least two went dark by the late 1970's: Rich East's WRHS and Glenbard West's WGHS.
(The roof from Glenbard West - with the WGHS antenna - provided one of coolest views of the Chicago skyline you could get from that far west in DuPage County - Glen Ellyn.)
As I navigate this nostalgia tour, I recall visiting the Chicago-licensed stations that happened to have their studios in the northwestern suburbs around Addison -- WAIT and WJJD - both in fairly non-descript buildings, as I recall. They didn't get many visits from the public, and everyone was exceedingly friendly.
I still think WAIT was truly the classic beautiful music station, and WJJD had an interesting run as a country station.
Back to WFXW/WGSB, the original subject of this post, I recall jokes about Nelda Brickhouse being so naiive, she thought the station might be able to use encased candles on the towers to reduce the electric bill! I never met her, so I don't know!
Prais said:
I only got to visit a couple of Chicago stations in that era, but you might get some memories the DJ Card at this link...
http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive Cleveland/WLS Signatures and Verie.pdf
It makes me want to break out in a chorus of "on top of a pizza, all covered with cheese.."
David, Thanks.
It makes ME break out into song too; "It's operfectly normal to have fun when you go formal when you rent your tux at Seno!" A Longtime Biondi sponsor, whose jingle is DRILLED into my brain because Biondi "sang along."
I too have a similar postcard w/o the verification (I only lived 15 miles from the Tinley Park, IL transmitter) . My card is signed by Clark Weber, who I often wrote. It says, "Hi Tom."
It makes ME break out into song too; "It's operfectly normal to have fun when you go formal when you rent your tux at Seno!" A Longtime Biondi sponsor, whose jingle is DRILLED into my brain because Biondi "sang along."
I too have a similar postcard w/o the verification (I only lived 15 miles from the Tinley Park, IL transmitter) . My card is signed by Clark Weber, who I often wrote. It says, "Hi Tom."
DX,
I believe WCLM was on the top floor of the 333 N Michigan Building, on the SE corner of Michigan and Wacker (later home of Paul Harvey's office). When I was there (about a dozen times in the mid 60's,) the view out the top floor East Window was breathtaking (today, buildings block that view). I thought the floor # was 43. The building lobby was beautiful marble. and the elevator was very classy. They had "elevator guards" to keep out kids like me, but I always made it in through the basement..
You are correct that the station was put off the air by the fcc because of illegal horse-race results broadcast on its subcarrier!
WFMF (100.3) was entirely reel to reel tape w/all commercials on individual 3 inch reels. NOTHING was live. The black and gold Carbide and Carbon building (an art deco dream) is now the Hard Rock hotel. According to popular legend, architects Daniel and Hubert Burnham designed the building to resemble a dark green champagne bottle with gold foil.
WDHF 95.5 (later wmet) - was in the Chicago Federal savings building, who traded hourly ads for their rent. That station was then owned by Bob Newhart, who bought it from a southside stereo store (name forgotten but it started w/D...High Fi).
Then you had WXFM, It was 200 degrees in the "shack" behind the awning store - not air conditioned. There, I did my first dj shift. Eventually they moved into the old WCLM studio.
WKFM (103.5) owned by Frank Kovas, was the first fm to sell for a million dollars (to rko). Their antenna fell off the building room (some 40 stories) but luckily, didn't kill anyone. It was the cheapest operation I ever saw - but had a quite classy sound on the air. Only about 20 ads a day kept it going.
WEFM only played records (no tape or carts). It was classical and owned by Zenith.
WIND and HHoward Miller and Benson and Russel visits, WFMQ, WCRW (at Diversey & Pine Grove), WEDC (at Emil Denemark Cadillac), WVON (at 3350 S Kedzie), WSBC (in the rat infested building at Madison and Western that smelled like urine), WEAW (where I worked one day and told my boss they needed an octopus - not a man to run both am and fm).
I NEVER could get in at wbbm. They hated kids.
(Sorry, I could go on and on).
I believe WCLM was on the top floor of the 333 N Michigan Building, on the SE corner of Michigan and Wacker (later home of Paul Harvey's office). When I was there (about a dozen times in the mid 60's,) the view out the top floor East Window was breathtaking (today, buildings block that view). I thought the floor # was 43. The building lobby was beautiful marble. and the elevator was very classy. They had "elevator guards" to keep out kids like me, but I always made it in through the basement..
You are correct that the station was put off the air by the fcc because of illegal horse-race results broadcast on its subcarrier!
WFMF (100.3) was entirely reel to reel tape w/all commercials on individual 3 inch reels. NOTHING was live. The black and gold Carbide and Carbon building (an art deco dream) is now the Hard Rock hotel. According to popular legend, architects Daniel and Hubert Burnham designed the building to resemble a dark green champagne bottle with gold foil.
WDHF 95.5 (later wmet) - was in the Chicago Federal savings building, who traded hourly ads for their rent. That station was then owned by Bob Newhart, who bought it from a southside stereo store (name forgotten but it started w/D...High Fi).
Then you had WXFM, It was 200 degrees in the "shack" behind the awning store - not air conditioned. There, I did my first dj shift. Eventually they moved into the old WCLM studio.
WKFM (103.5) owned by Frank Kovas, was the first fm to sell for a million dollars (to rko). Their antenna fell off the building room (some 40 stories) but luckily, didn't kill anyone. It was the cheapest operation I ever saw - but had a quite classy sound on the air. Only about 20 ads a day kept it going.
WEFM only played records (no tape or carts). It was classical and owned by Zenith.
WIND and HHoward Miller and Benson and Russel visits, WFMQ, WCRW (at Diversey & Pine Grove), WEDC (at Emil Denemark Cadillac), WVON (at 3350 S Kedzie), WSBC (in the rat infested building at Madison and Western that smelled like urine), WEAW (where I worked one day and told my boss they needed an octopus - not a man to run both am and fm).
I NEVER could get in at wbbm. They hated kids.
(Sorry, I could go on and on).
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Sorry Prais,
My recollection of getting upstairs to WCLM was a little different, but what do you expect after 40+ years?
Maybe I got on a "rickety" elevator to avoid the lobby attendant... I don't remember.
You do bring back some great memories though.
I did get up to Newsradio 780 many times, I guess after writing, sincerely, as a 12- or 13-year-old, "news geek". (Hey, I listened to W-NUS as a kid!)
The overnight police reporter - Joe Cummings - offered to have me hop along and experience Chicago at night in not--too--safe areas, but my parents weren't too enthusiastic about that, as you can imagine.
(In these days of liability, I doubt that would ever happen. Then again, this entire discussion is academic, since even big-market all-news stations don't tend to have all-night police reporters anymore!)
But, above all, I loved visiting WIND in its oldies era... some of the nicest people... and then-P.D. Bob Moomey helped me get a Group W news affiliation for my high school station, so we could lift news cuts! WIND's news operation rivaled WBBM's and WGN's on breaking stories. I interned at WIND during the summer of '76.
I guess I visited WSBC when they were paired with WXRT (if my memory serves me!).
My recollection of getting upstairs to WCLM was a little different, but what do you expect after 40+ years?
Maybe I got on a "rickety" elevator to avoid the lobby attendant... I don't remember.
You do bring back some great memories though.
I did get up to Newsradio 780 many times, I guess after writing, sincerely, as a 12- or 13-year-old, "news geek". (Hey, I listened to W-NUS as a kid!)
The overnight police reporter - Joe Cummings - offered to have me hop along and experience Chicago at night in not--too--safe areas, but my parents weren't too enthusiastic about that, as you can imagine.
(In these days of liability, I doubt that would ever happen. Then again, this entire discussion is academic, since even big-market all-news stations don't tend to have all-night police reporters anymore!)
But, above all, I loved visiting WIND in its oldies era... some of the nicest people... and then-P.D. Bob Moomey helped me get a Group W news affiliation for my high school station, so we could lift news cuts! WIND's news operation rivaled WBBM's and WGN's on breaking stories. I interned at WIND during the summer of '76.
I guess I visited WSBC when they were paired with WXRT (if my memory serves me!).
Prais,
WDHF---DeHaan High Fidelity. I remember visiting the store with my dad who was a hi fi buff (it infected me in a big way) when they were going out of business circa 1964 or 5. They were on Western Avenue in the Beverly neighborhood, south of the then landmark Evergreen Park Shopping Center.
I only saw the store. not the station which was in the back. Wasn't the tower originally in Oak Lawn somewhere? WDHF was my dad's favorite FM station.
Now for something completely different. In the DHF/MET top 40 days they had an afternoon newsman named W.D. Sandeford.
He had a totally whacked delivery and ended his oddball newscasts with "That's It! I'm W.D. Sandeford!" Does anyone remember anything about him.
There was nothing quite like him on the air at the time, circa 1974-75.
WDHF---DeHaan High Fidelity. I remember visiting the store with my dad who was a hi fi buff (it infected me in a big way) when they were going out of business circa 1964 or 5. They were on Western Avenue in the Beverly neighborhood, south of the then landmark Evergreen Park Shopping Center.
I only saw the store. not the station which was in the back. Wasn't the tower originally in Oak Lawn somewhere? WDHF was my dad's favorite FM station.
Now for something completely different. In the DHF/MET top 40 days they had an afternoon newsman named W.D. Sandeford.
He had a totally whacked delivery and ended his oddball newscasts with "That's It! I'm W.D. Sandeford!" Does anyone remember anything about him.
There was nothing quite like him on the air at the time, circa 1974-75.
Prais said:
Probably many years before there was a real WFMF, the legendary Bob and Ray used those calls in a running series of comedy bits. Ray (Goulding) played the announcer--a guy who always ffumfed his Fs (like Daffy Duck). The fictional stations were WFMF and WFMF-FM (NEVER IDed as WFMF AM and FM because "WFMF and WFMF-FM" had so many more Fs to ffumf). Anyhow, the bits were very ffunny!
I remember Bob and Ray from appearances on CBS Radio and the Ed Sullivan Show. "Right here on our stage, Bob and Ray."
And 317...I have the same "infection" as you. I did also remember DeHaan owned dhf after you mentioned that.
DeHaan's newspaper ads had a blue cartoon man with a big nose. LOTS of advertisers from the Oak Lawn area because their big sales guy lived down there. He had it good. Only came downtown once a week and drove aaround the South side the rest of the time.
"D" tracked album sides alot of the time ( I remember Billy Vaughn/Sail Along Silvry Moon and lots of Tijuana Brass) and had "the Saturday Night Dance Party (with sfx as though it was a big band broadcast). Bob Longbons and Frank Lee were 2 of the dj's.
Later, Longbons died quite young while at DHF (he didn't show up for a shift and they discovered his body at home) and Lee did overnights and subbing at WIND.
And 317...I have the same "infection" as you. I did also remember DeHaan owned dhf after you mentioned that.
DeHaan's newspaper ads had a blue cartoon man with a big nose. LOTS of advertisers from the Oak Lawn area because their big sales guy lived down there. He had it good. Only came downtown once a week and drove aaround the South side the rest of the time.
"D" tracked album sides alot of the time ( I remember Billy Vaughn/Sail Along Silvry Moon and lots of Tijuana Brass) and had "the Saturday Night Dance Party (with sfx as though it was a big band broadcast). Bob Longbons and Frank Lee were 2 of the dj's.
Later, Longbons died quite young while at DHF (he didn't show up for a shift and they discovered his body at home) and Lee did overnights and subbing at WIND.
Anyone know where P.J. Harrigan is these days? He was at WMRO in Aurora for a long time, and then did some time at WFXW. I used to work with him at WMRO/WAUR and would love to get in touch with him. Those were good times in that old box on Eola Rd (for WMRO/WAUR). Chick Hearn and John Drury had been through that station in its early years (when owned by Martin R. O'Brien). Later, when Dale Stevens owned it and Hal Brokaw (a former Westinghouse engineer) operated it, Dean Richards worked there, Rick O'Dell, Johnnie Putnam, Joe Bartosch, the late Dave Blair, Joe Collins, Don Dillard, Bruce Summers, Pat O'Kelley, Len Turner, Megan Reed, Jonathan Freeberg. Anyway...where's P.J. these days?
BRRC, if you are still looking for P.J., click on the Air Staff menu item here: http://www.b95fm.com/home.htm
Hi, DX,
Talk about memories..... I think you must have been at WTAQ the summer after me. I did vacation fill engineering (and whatever) in 73 and 74 during college breaks. Chief engineer was a heckofa great guy. Think his name was Andy? I probably have it on the back of my old 1st phone if I could find it. And Bill Ward was great to everyone.
You're right on about Al Mann. I wonder where those checks that came in made out to ALexi roMANNof actually got deposited. Amazing the station didn't get sued.
Remember the trade deals? Seemed everyone there had one ... you could tell what the bosses were getting their wives for the holidays by mid-summer - well, not exactly what, but at least which new jewelry store advertiser it was coming from. One summer we all got lunch once/week from a hot dog place in exchange for 3 20-seconds per week on Polka Jamboree.
Our day engineer used to do a character who claimed he could tell the future by reading watermelon rinds. (really!) So Bill Ward put him on Q-Line one afternoon as his character. He did about 20 minutes of crazy stuff (like, that he studied at IBM, the International Bureau of Melonology), and then Bill took calls so people would actually call in to get their future from the watermelon seeds the guy had with him. More calls than I saw at any time in 2 years for Q-Line - and I think only one caller even hinted that he knew it was all a gag. Kinda sad, but funny. I think I still have the aircheck.
Anyway, thanks for proving to my friends that I didn't make up the czar story!
Scott
Talk about memories..... I think you must have been at WTAQ the summer after me. I did vacation fill engineering (and whatever) in 73 and 74 during college breaks. Chief engineer was a heckofa great guy. Think his name was Andy? I probably have it on the back of my old 1st phone if I could find it. And Bill Ward was great to everyone.
You're right on about Al Mann. I wonder where those checks that came in made out to ALexi roMANNof actually got deposited. Amazing the station didn't get sued.
Remember the trade deals? Seemed everyone there had one ... you could tell what the bosses were getting their wives for the holidays by mid-summer - well, not exactly what, but at least which new jewelry store advertiser it was coming from. One summer we all got lunch once/week from a hot dog place in exchange for 3 20-seconds per week on Polka Jamboree.
Our day engineer used to do a character who claimed he could tell the future by reading watermelon rinds. (really!) So Bill Ward put him on Q-Line one afternoon as his character. He did about 20 minutes of crazy stuff (like, that he studied at IBM, the International Bureau of Melonology), and then Bill took calls so people would actually call in to get their future from the watermelon seeds the guy had with him. More calls than I saw at any time in 2 years for Q-Line - and I think only one caller even hinted that he knew it was all a gag. Kinda sad, but funny. I think I still have the aircheck.
Anyway, thanks for proving to my friends that I didn't make up the czar story!
Scott
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You folks are making me feel old but giving some great memories of living in NW Ind and Chi town back in the 60s & 70s. I remember visiting WXFM and u had to walk thru like an air lock past an ancient transmitter to get to the studio. They were into playing show tunes at the time. Applied for a DJ job there along with WDHF when they were playing MOR and Dom Lucky, formerly of WIND, who was PD at DHF. I did get work work at WXRT/WSBC when they were foreign language. Kind of interesting sharing time with 2 other stations and fun being part of WXRT when they first went AOR, but never was a jock there just a board op. I did get to visit the WJJD xmitter/studio site and remember the 50KW blow torches being like a mile long.
Chi town and burb radio brought back some great memories. Actually started my radio career at WYCA when they were religious and then went to XRT for about a year and moved on p/t at a couple other burb stations.
Chi town and burb radio brought back some great memories. Actually started my radio career at WYCA when they were religious and then went to XRT for about a year and moved on p/t at a couple other burb stations.
Yes, you are correct, the WDHF tower was located between the train tracks and 98th on Central Ave.317C50KW said:
in Oak Lawn. The tower is still there today.
For a while the tower was being used by a cable tv company. It has since been shortened, with the very top
being removed. I believe the tower is now being used as a communication tower for The Oak Lawn public
works department. There are no stations up there now.
A few years back EMF had an app for a translator on that tower. That app was modified, and moved to a much
taller and newer cell phone tower in Chicago Ridge, by SW Hwy and Ridgeland. It was removed from the FCC
about 3 years back. The app. on the taller tower was for 8 watts. I'm not sure what the requested power was
at the tower on Central.
I know TMI
Have a good one,
TR
A friend of mine who had a show on WZRD 88.3 became friends with Denny Ferrell, I seem to recall he also had a show on W? (College of Du Page),
which I could never get a decent signal from. Even then, outlets for 30s-40s music were getting hard to find.
As a teen, I visited several Chicago and NW Indiana stations. I recall WAIT once had studios on Michigan avenue on the east side of the street, about 3-4 blocks north of the river, the calls were prominently displayed on the top of the 3-4 story building which is still there.
Anyone know when they got out of town?
which I could never get a decent signal from. Even then, outlets for 30s-40s music were getting hard to find.
As a teen, I visited several Chicago and NW Indiana stations. I recall WAIT once had studios on Michigan avenue on the east side of the street, about 3-4 blocks north of the river, the calls were prominently displayed on the top of the 3-4 story building which is still there.
Anyone know when they got out of town?
Tom,
I believe the OFFICES were on Michigan Ave. The studio and transmitter were in Elmhurst. I don't believe the STUDIO was EVER downtown. I do remember the building and the sign you speak of.
I worked for Ed Jacker (one of the 3 founding partners of wait) for a while. One guy was the engineer (Ed), one guy was programming (long before Darryl Peters) and one guy was sales.
Ed would regale me with many stories about those days. He also owned 1/2 of WCRW at Diversey and Pine Grove, and Ed and I helped Mrs. Pucinski at WEDC about 5700 N. Mlwaukee Ave.
I believe the OFFICES were on Michigan Ave. The studio and transmitter were in Elmhurst. I don't believe the STUDIO was EVER downtown. I do remember the building and the sign you speak of.
I worked for Ed Jacker (one of the 3 founding partners of wait) for a while. One guy was the engineer (Ed), one guy was programming (long before Darryl Peters) and one guy was sales.
Ed would regale me with many stories about those days. He also owned 1/2 of WCRW at Diversey and Pine Grove, and Ed and I helped Mrs. Pucinski at WEDC about 5700 N. Mlwaukee Ave.
Prais, Do you know how long it's been since they took the WCRW tower down?Prais said:
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