Re: KHJ Radio, The Times, Los Angeles, CA 1925
Hi there! Sorry, but I'm way behind in reading these posts. I just found the post by allisonmarie from January 2nd, about KHJ radio inside the Los Angeles Times building being featured in a silent Our Gang movie from 1925! Wow, that is interesting to me, as a student of early L.A. radio history!
I would like to get a copy of this film just to see "Uncle John" in action at the KHJ mike and the KHJ towers atop the "old" Times building at 1st and Broadcaway in 1925! The building was torn down when the "new" L.A. Times building went up in the early 1930s.
Also, to answer your question, yes, John Stewart Daggett, a.k.a. "Uncle John" to his KHJ fans, was KHJ's first station manager and chief announcer from April 13, 1922 until November of 1927, when the L.A. Times sdold KHJ radio to Cadillac auto dealer Don Lee. Anyway, Uncle John Daggett was at home interviewing movie stars on KHJ, and also hosting the nightly Children's Hour program at 6:30 p.m. each night, showcasing talented kids on the radio. This was a "must" tune-in nightly type show, very popular in those primitive, very early days of L.A. radio.
Daggett, who was a reporter for the L.A. Times, stayed with the newspaper at least until 1931, mostly writing the paper's daily radio column, which he enjoyed. Daggett later did a kids show on KNX around 1929-1930, worked for KGFJ around 1932, and his final radio job may have been hosting a talent show on KFAC radio in L.A. starting in December of 1935. John S. Daggett, the first KHJ announcer/manager and first big radio star in Los Angeles, died in 1945 in Pasadena, at age 65. At one time, around 1926, Daggett married one of his former child radio stars, and they had one child together, a boy. I don't have any other details about him, but the marriage apparently didn't last too long.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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Jim Hilliker</P>
Hi there! Sorry, but I'm way behind in reading these posts. I just found the post by allisonmarie from January 2nd, about KHJ radio inside the Los Angeles Times building being featured in a silent Our Gang movie from 1925! Wow, that is interesting to me, as a student of early L.A. radio history!
I would like to get a copy of this film just to see "Uncle John" in action at the KHJ mike and the KHJ towers atop the "old" Times building at 1st and Broadcaway in 1925! The building was torn down when the "new" L.A. Times building went up in the early 1930s.
Also, to answer your question, yes, John Stewart Daggett, a.k.a. "Uncle John" to his KHJ fans, was KHJ's first station manager and chief announcer from April 13, 1922 until November of 1927, when the L.A. Times sdold KHJ radio to Cadillac auto dealer Don Lee. Anyway, Uncle John Daggett was at home interviewing movie stars on KHJ, and also hosting the nightly Children's Hour program at 6:30 p.m. each night, showcasing talented kids on the radio. This was a "must" tune-in nightly type show, very popular in those primitive, very early days of L.A. radio.
Daggett, who was a reporter for the L.A. Times, stayed with the newspaper at least until 1931, mostly writing the paper's daily radio column, which he enjoyed. Daggett later did a kids show on KNX around 1929-1930, worked for KGFJ around 1932, and his final radio job may have been hosting a talent show on KFAC radio in L.A. starting in December of 1935. John S. Daggett, the first KHJ announcer/manager and first big radio star in Los Angeles, died in 1945 in Pasadena, at age 65. At one time, around 1926, Daggett married one of his former child radio stars, and they had one child together, a boy. I don't have any other details about him, but the marriage apparently didn't last too long.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
[email protected]<P ID="signature">______________
Jim Hilliker</P>