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unusual facts about old time radio



Kathleen Lane

On September 21, 1939, she appeared on Chester's short-lived 15-minute radio show on CBS; the program was archived (along with the rest of Washington, D. C. station WJSV's broadcast day) and is still circulated by Old Time Radio collectors and on the internet.

Wisconsin Public Radio

Locally originated programming on that day includes University of the Air, the folk music focused Simply Folk, and a three hour block of old time radio comedies and dramas.

WRPO-LP

"The Best of Old Time Radio" featuring vintage episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly, The Green Hornet, Lum and Abner, The Great Gildersleeve, Gunsmoke among others were also aired to coincide with its earlier formats.


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Barbara Jean Wong

She played Judy Barton, one of the twins in the children's Christmas old time radio show The Cinnamon Bear.

Ted Mallie

By the time Channel 9 moved its studios to Secaucus, New Jersey in 1986, three years after they transferred their city of license there, he and Phil Tonken were the last of the WOR radio announcers from the old-time radio era to still be employed at the station.

The Brown Hornet

The Brown Hornet's name is a play on the name of the old time radio hero The Green Hornet.

Tohono Chul Park

Clifford Goldsmith, creator of the old-time radio series Henry Aldrich, rented the home at one point.