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WCOS at Cornell Arms?

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Anyone remember WCOS when it was at Cornell Arms and owned by George Buck?

As a young child in the 70s, I'd tag along while my grandmother (yes) taped her segments. I remember getting sick once in a production room. (I doubt I was the first.)

I just found this board tonight. It looks we all still have radio fever. :)
 
Yes I can remember when WCOS was in the Cornell Arms "high rise" in the 70s. No offense, but I can believe your grandmother did work there. I always felt WCOS/1400 was a top 40 station run by old people (I listened to WNOK or WOIC). It was funny, the Cornell Arms was/is directly across from the USC horseshoe and the epicenter for young people but the building itself seemed to be pretty much off limits for anyone under the age of 40. There was an old-fashioned drug store and old-time meat and potatoes restaurant on the first floor. WCOS and maybe a few more offices on the second. Wometco Cable TV (now Time Warner) had their TV antennas on the roof. In the mid 70s the entire first floor was remodeled into a huge McDonalds--an unusual concept at the time, there was no parking of course. The McDonalds was very successful--always crowded. I don't know if WCOS-FM also broadast from Cornell. I also remember WCOS-AM having a broadcast booth atop a drive in restaurant on North Main, just north of Elmwood, where they broadcast at night during the summers (Hunter Herring?). I think WCOS had moved to Millwood by the late 70s.
 
I went to A.C. Moore Elementary in the second grade(68-69) and I took piano lessons from my second grade teacher in the Cornell Arms. Kind of creepy building inside, as I recall (this is better than therapy).

Also, I roomed in the Wade Hampton Hotel my first two years at Carolina(79-80 and) and spent lots of time and money at that McDonald's. And you're right, by the time I started working for Hunter in January 1980 at "Position 14 WCOS", the studios were at Millwood, plus, a friend of mine (J. Patrick Milan/WKZQ) had worked at WCOS his first and only semester at USC a year or two earlier(not sure, I think late 1978) and COS was at Millwood then, too. That was when it was "14 Super COS".
 
In the summer of 1972 when I was all of age twenty and dating a young lady living in Columbia, I thought I would find where WCOS was located, check out the studios and see if there were any job openings for someone trying to move a little further up in market size. I hadn't been in the building ten minutes when the guy on the air, Woody Windham, came out of the control room at a high rate of speed and left no doubt in my mind that I needed to leave. There may be something to the previously mentioned theory that no one under 40 was allowed inside. I had more success talking to Hunter Herring one Sunday night while he was doing his airshift in that remote booth located at Doug Broome's Drive-In on Main Street.
 
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