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Poking at the roots of the BBC

Mike Sheridan said:
I have only seen a couple of pictures one of Bob Diamond working the all night show combo in the control room in front of an old RCA board with 3 old looking turntables around him, and a picture of Tom Shannon standing in what looked like a big room with an old RCA mic with a big long boom, the kind you'd expect to see in TV not radio. The walls were made up of that tile with the holes in it.

I walked in once and tried to get a tour of 1430 Main but the receptionist said they weren't giving tours that day. I wonder how many times she said that? I assume 695 Delaware Av was a much nicer place. I did read on Old Forgotten Buffalo that 1430 was very likely the first WKBW transmitter site.
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My brother Bob was business manager of the TV side and I was thrilled to get a tour of 1430 Main in August 1968. Can't remember who was on the air at the time, but I was in awe of seeing live radio happen before my eyes. The place was pretty beat up back then but I was too enthralled with the talent and equipment to care.

I've also read that 1430 Main was very likely the first WKBW transmitter site. Here's a June 1, 1927 aerial photograph from the county website:

http://www.erie.gov/aerials/1920s/atlases/book7/html/b7_g23.html

1430 is on the far left, find Main Street and you can see where it curves at Ferry, then look south two blocks. There appears to be a self-supporting tower directly behind the Tabernacle (no room for a guyed structure).

I'm going to look for old topo maps of the area, they usually will make note of radio and TV towers.
 
"He figured if you went up into the attic (neither he nor I ever did) you might still find hay up there in what had been the hayloft. When he said that I think he was just half-joking... "


I got up there, no hay but lots of records and prizes and posters and other stuff that I couldn't get enough of looking at.
 
Al Wallach followed up on our speculation on the 1430 Main Street attic by saying, "I got up there, no hay but lots of records and prizes and posters and other stuff that I couldn't get enough of looking at. "

Hope you got some of it, Al.
Wonder who did, when they cleared the place out before the move to 695 Delaware? (Hope they didn't leave it for the dentists who took that building over--not that I have anything against dentists, but they wouldn't likely appreciate that material like we radio geeks would...)
 
I was up there in something like 1969. There was plenty of time before the move to clear things out.

I got nothing while I was up there, I think I was up there with Jeff.....that limited my options.
 
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