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WAZL Towers

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Metropolite

I recently saw a photo of Broad Street from the '30s. Atop the Hazleton National Bank was a self-supporting tower. Does anyone know when it was removed and where 1490's tower sites have been since?
 
Unless I'm mistaken (wouldn't be the first time) the WAZL tower was moved to Hazleton Heights (Berner Ave) in the late 1940's with the addition of WAZL-FM (now WBSX - 97.9X). The original tower which was replaced in the 1970's was also of heavy-duty construction to support the anticipated TV antenna for WAZL-TV (The CP was for Channel 64 and was to be a DuMont Network affiliate - I believe the CP was returned in 1958).

Mike
 
(The CP was for Channel 64 and was to be a DuMont Network affiliate - I believe the CP was returned in 1958).
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It took them two years before they realize DuMont had tanked?
 
L.A. Tarone's book on Hazleton has a great chapter on Hazleton radio.
Available at Barnes and Noble. Called "We Were Once Here".
Yonkstur
 
I have to ask, even though it might be indelicate. How did you and Tarone get published? Are we talking a vanity press here?
 
I don't know the particulars on Tarone's deal, as far as mine, I'm part of a literary consortium that funded it. So in a way it was self published but with other people's money. A true self publisher can do anything he or she wants, I have to submit my work to a group of editors who are currently busting my baseballs on a new project. My distribution was not national at all but on the east coast. However, those editors have contacts that gladly pass my work on to national concerns in hopes that they bite on one of my efforts. If they do, I'm national. If they don't, I'm still writing but getting my baseballs busted which makes me hopefully a better writer. Stephen King's first book was self published. Then it was passed on and the floodgates opened. I have no expectations of that happening but I can hope. Either way, my work is out there and if I stay at the few thousand I sold or sell millions, (which is unlikely) I'm getting my stories out there. And that for me is the true joy in this. I started writing because I refused to take the pain killers I was prescribed after my auto accident. The fact that it turned into a finished product and sold a few copies was icing on the cake. If there's more, great. If not, I'm still cranking out a few more. If they stink, they stink. If they sell, they sell. But I'm writing to ward off those spasms. Like Nancy Reagan used to say, "Just Say No".
Yonkstur

P.S. There are no indelicate questions except for of course the famous, "boxers or briefs".
 
If you'd like to see the picture I mentioned of Broad Street in the 30s, stop by the Capitol Cafe on the site of the former movie house. The photo is on the cover of their menu.
 
P.S. There are no indelicate questions except for of course the famous, "boxers or briefs".

A: DEPENDS.


That's A Sh**ty Answer.
 
A: DEPENDS.


That's A Sh**ty Answer.

Hey, don't joke. Or as Walter epaski would say, "don't laugh". We are getting near that age. Not funny!

yonkstur

p.s. gotta grab some flomax.
 
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