[78-L] Pepsi (Was something else)

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "S&R Pinsker" <spinsker at erols.com>
> Am I the only one here who listened to Easy Aces and Lum & Abner?
> I still remember the excitement when we got a SECOND radio and
> a few years later I was given my own personal one.
> Then came the years when I assembled HeathKits and EICOs.
>
I dimly recall, back when I was a child (forties and early fifties) the
whole family gathering around the radio to listen to dramatic/
comedy programs (Amos & Andy, The Great Gildersleeve, usw.)
but not the two above. The Christmas of 1950, I received my own
RCA table-model radio, and I listened to various programs aimed
at us younger folks (like Sgt. Preston)...and as well the National
Barn Dance on WLS, hoping to hear Homer & Jethro!

>From about 1955 on, I listened to the "Top 20" on WPEO (Peoria);
after hearing a few of Jimmy Reed'd hits thereon, I realized I really
liked blues...and discovered I could hear blues all night on WLAC
(Nashville)! Sadly, I never bought any of the blues records they
advertised...!

Actually, I bought a Philco 37-9 console at a local auction for $5...
and spent many evenings/nights tuning for MW "DX"...IIRC, I had
heard 42 states when I drifted away from that...!

Steven C. Barr