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THE HISTORY
at the Beginning...
the following text was adapted in part from the 21 September 1963 40th anniversary
supplement appearing in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
"What its future will be,
no man can tell, except that the most impossible of all dreams seem to be daily coming true in radio. So as this station,
meriting the well-earned approval of every loyal citizen launches out, we bid it Godspeed and wish for it a 'Bon Voyage' for
its future."
from an address by
then
Lt. H.H. Lippencott, Ch. USN
at the dedication
of WTAR
radio on 21 September 1923.
TO TELL THE HISTORY OF WTAR RADIO
IS TO TELL THE HISTORY
OF RADIO IN VIRGINIA
What was in 1923 only a dream with an uncertain future
became a reality... a reality that far exceeded the expectations of the most imaginative thinker of the time. The year
1923 was not only the beginning of a radio station in Virginia, it was the start of a nation coming into its own as a world
power. The story of the radio industry begins here, and the history and acheivement of WTAR parallels the growth of
a great communications medium and the rise in stature of a great country.
America grew... and felt growing pains.
There were laughter and tears... success and tragedy. Through economic depression and inflation, wars, scientific and
artistic acheivement... through all the many complexities of "just living", radio has been a prominent player. The growth
and history of a nation is, of course, its people... people who, as they progress, need to be entertained and informed.
There has been a story to be told, and radio told it to more people more quickly than ever before.
This tells the tale of WTAR Radio.
It relates how it served the people of Virginia, and how it earned the title, "The Voice of Tidewater... One of America's
Great Radio Stations"
"The Voice of Tidewater" was not always the powerful resonant
voice it eventually became. Its first cry of life was a weak one... one that reached out a scant ten miles. But
for those who had a set, it caused a considerable stir in the community. A short time after the initial broadcast from
the Reliance Electric Company in Norfolk on 21 September 1923, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported with some amazement
that WTAR could be heard "...even as far away as Virginia Beach..." a total of eighteen miles."
 But WTAR was a precocious infant. In a short time the
voice had a large vocabulary and it seemed rather large for its age. In May 1924, Virginians heard their first remote
control broadcast when WTAR carried a Norfolk church service. In June of the same year another milestone was reached.
For the first time in history Virginians were able to hear firsthand how the political world functioned, when via shortwave
rebroadcast WTAR brought the sounds of the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden.
The autumn of 1924 was, like Septembers
for years' past, World Series time. Baseball fans of Tidewater rejoiced; for the first time in their lives they were
able to listen to a play-by-play of the National Pasttime. In case you don't recall, it was the Senators vs. the Giants,
and Washington won four games to three, over the New Yorkers.
Three years passed, and WTAR
added to its staff and equipment. It also picked up its first sponsor, a Norfolk jewelry firm. Then in 1927, the
focus of the country was on a man named Lindbergh and a thing called the airplane. At the same time, Virginians were
forming a pride in their great shipbuilding industry. WTAR combined these two topical issues and on March 20, transmitted
the first air-to-ground description of a big news event... the launching of fourteen ships in one day at Newport News.
The 1920's ended on a high note for WTAR. With its typical insight into future developments, it
joined a national network. On 8 January 1929, it became affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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| trade ad 1935 |
In the 1930's, radio began to reach fruition.
Tidewater heard the sound of aerial bombs as U.S. Army pilots proved an airplane could sink a battleship. It heard President
Hoover during the Cape Henry Pilgrimage, and the Wright Brothers Memorial dedication at Kitty Hawk. Famous aviator Wiley
Post flew into Norfolk in the "Winnie Mae" for a broadcast from the WTAR studio, and the actual drone of Admiral Richard E.
Byrd's airplane motors in his epochal flight to the South Pole was transmitted. FDR gave a fireside chat to the nation
and some new names in the world of entertainment became household words...
Rudy Vallee, Jack Pearl, Amos
'n' Andy, Jack Benny and a fellow named Hope.
For WTAR, the 1930's was a decade of major technical and business growth. In 1931, a new transmitting plant with two
one-hundred fifty foot towers and a five-hundred watt transmitter was dedicated. In 1932, the station was taken over
by the Ledger-Dispatch
evening
newspaper, which was eventually sold to the Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers Corporation publisher of the Virginian-Pilot and
Ledger-Star. In 1934, WTAR moved to the spacious quarters on the thirteenth-floor of the National Bank of Commerce building
in downtown Norfolk. New equipment was added and studio facilities were enlarged. In June of that year, WTAR joined
the NBC network and on Thanksgiving Day of 1934 increased its power to one-thousand watts on 780 kilocycles.
It was soon realized that the station was growing faster than anyone had envisioned. By 1937, a new transmitter plant
was constructed equipped with the tallest flagpole-type radio tower ever constructed. In 1938 the station applied for
a further increase in power, and by 1941 WTAR was operating on the frequency of 790 kilocycles with a full day and night power
of five-thousand watts from its transmitter site located at Military Highway and Virginia Beach Boulevard.
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| distant reception stamp 1930's |
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| WTAR early 1940's logo |
As the 1930's grew to a close, radio and WTAR were to find the
next ten years to be the most successful and yet most trying up to that time. World War II loomed imminent in Europe
and electronic engineers were trying to combine sound with moving pictures in a little glass tube.
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| Blair Eubanks on D-Day 6 June 1944 |
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| Blair Eubanks in 1941 |
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| the WTAR transmitting facility at Glen Rock in 1941 |
On 7 December 1941, Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor and
shortly afterward, Tidewater heard WTAR carry President Roosevelt's declaration of war and promise of ultimate victory.
The area found itself one of the world's mightiest military complexes and WTAR directed its activities toward the war effort.
The station became the focal point for the dissemination of news vital to its important listening audience.
WTAR was the key control
station in the extensive air raid warning net set up by the Eastern Defense Command. The station was understaffed during
most of the war period, but it maintained a twenty-four hour schedule and provided expedient coverage of all developments.
Many of the control room operators were women.
There were many other
worthy functions for a broadcaster to perform, and WTAR was ready. It took a part in every War Loan campaign, co-operated
with the USO to furnish programs of entertainment in military installations, and helped to organize and maintain the local
units of the Virginia Protective Force. The station also directed efforts to the continuance of programs for entertainment
and morale purposes.
Then, almost suddenly,
the war was over. On 8 May 1945 President Truman formally announced the cessation of the war in Europe and shortly after,
a mushroom cloud appeared over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan capitulated.
WTAR rapidly swung back to peace-time operation. In 1946 it won the Billboard Magazine Award
for top public service, and the same magazine later stated that WTAR was showing its heels to all the other top leading stations
in the country in delivering both daytime and nighttime audiences.
Early in 1946, WTAR commenced preparation for what was then an
entirely new method of broadcasting... FM. On 12 May 1947 WTAR-FM went on the air with a power of three-thousand watts
on the assigned frequency of 93.1 megacycles. Shortly thereafter this power was increased to five-thousand watts and
the frequency changed to 97.3 megacycles. Daily FM programming consisted of simulcasting the AM schedule. The
life of this innovation was cut short and was leap-frogged by the coming of television, and the first FM service was discontinued
by 1955.
The 1940's were big years... radio was riding high. But the men in the laboratories
had come a long way with their little glass picture tube.
WTAR Radio saw television come on the scene with all the excitement
of a circus parade in a whistle-stop town. New names and faces leaped from the flickering electronic box. America
heard... and saw... Howdy Doody, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Martin and Lewis, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Uncle Milty... and a New
York columnist named Sullivan was saying, "It's a really big shew!"
Radio looked on... stunned
and awkward... while "John's Other Wife" and "Ma Perkins" became the butt of TV jokesters and the kids lost interest in "Captain
Midnight" and "The All-American Boy".
It all looked pretty black
for radio - and then the sound of cannon in a remote place called Korea found radio on the scene with the reputation it had
earned and still deserved. Radio was an instant electronic communicator... it always had been. Radio... particularly
a network station... was able to instantly bring the voices of vital news from all over the world to anxious listeners at
home. TV could carry the pictures, but only days later. Radio began its climb back.
WTAR reorganized. The
station moved in 1950 to one of the most modern broadcast facilities on the Atlantic coast at 720 Boush Street in downtown
Norfolk. It rejoined the CBS network on 19 September 1953. It stepped up its format of news and streamlined its
music policy. Again with foresight, it continued its policy of service to the people of Virginia, with a balanced program
schedule of good and lasting music.
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| WTAR CBS inaugural September 1953 |
Tidewater became literally wired for sound. The portable and later transistorized
radio enabled people to take their entertainment with them. Radio went out of the living room into every segment of
outdoor American life... on the patio... to the beach... in the car and on a boat. Americans loved music... they wanted
news and weather, and in Tidewater they found it all on WTAR.
A crisis was passed. Though radio was no longer an only child, it was still
an important member of the family and did perform a needed service unique only to itself.
1959 format and personalities
In the 1960's WTAR made strides to reaffirm its position. It was never satisfied
to be the "first" radio station in Virginia, but maintained the term in the sense of responsible broadcasting which served
the public first.
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| Law Day promos 1 May 1962 |
In 1961, WTAR continued to move further ahead when it revived the
FM broadcast service it had discontinued in the mid-fifties. On 21 September 1961 WTAR-FM began sending its signal from
the eight-hundred eighty-one foot level of the Driver TV tower. Nine months later, the station initiated full-time stereo
multiplex broadcasting on its frequency of 95.7 megacycles. Its power output of forty-thousand watts sent out a signal
covering an estimated radius of eighty miles from the Driver tower and reached counties in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
The FM call letters were changed twice, to WKEZ-FM in 1977 and to WLTY-FM in 1982. In the
modern day, it's operating with the call letters WVKL-FM.
With the advent of WTAR-FM-Stereo,
the broadcasting family of WTAR AM-FM-TV became the only complete, separately-operated broadcast service in the state
of Virginia at the time.
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| WTAR-FM print ads 1962 |
Also from WTAR, the largest professional broadcasting news staff in
Virginia broadcasted thirty-three scheduled newscasts each day and in affiliation with CBS, instituted the famous NetALERT
system of instantaneous worldwide news reporting.
In 1962, WTAR moved one step further in the tradition of modern broadcasting.
The station acquired a helicopter. Originally, it was intended for use as a traffic safety aid and control. But
it became a vehicle to further aid in the acquiring and reporting of news events, served as an "eye in the sky" for Tidewater
law enforcement, and helped avoid possible tragedies at sea.
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| The WTAR - Atlantic Richfield helicopter in the skies over Tidewater 1963 |
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| sports time on WTAR fall 1963 |
The station began its marine patrol service in 1964 with the introduction
of the cabin cruiser "WTAR I" (pronounced "wee-tar"). In the years following there succeeded many "wee-tar" craft
and they became a familiar and welcome sight to boaters in the Tidewater area, with either La Verne Watson or Jeff Dane aboard,
offering fishing reports to WTAR listeners and assistance to small-craft in need.
This service was instituted as part of the "Weekender" format that was popular from this time through the early 1970's.
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| "Weekender" format ad Summer 1964 |
The morning show began as a popular feature around 1950 on WTAR. Marybelle
Darden was its first host with her "Marybelle's Chickens" program which ran until 1953. Then came Trafton's turn at
the morning show which lasted six years...
George Crawford came down from northern Virginia to be the morning host in 1959
and stayed on thru the better part of 1960 before moving over to 1310 where he saw his greatest popularity. Jim Stanley
was featured in this spot for a short while. And then there was Paul...
who moved to WTAR from the 1230 spot to regale and entertain us for the next twenty-two
years. His audience can still recall his intonation of "WTAR time", his following of "little old ladies" and his affinity
for the singing "talent" of Mrs. Miller.
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| Paul Henning's obituary in 1990 |
| overnight syndicated show on WTAR 1967-1971 |
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| Dottie Abbott aka "Dolly Holiday" for Holiday Inns |
The 1970's saw a change in the music programmed
on WTAR, from a middle-of the-road easy listening selection to a more contemporary sound. Artists like America, Seals
& Crofts, Arlo Guthrie and even Wings dominated the playlists with personalities like Don Rose, Mort Flohr, Tom Looney,
Dale Parsons, Jim Lawrence and Andy Tompkins spinning the tunes twenty-four hours a day for the people of Tidewater.
And it retained its full-service character
with local and CBS radio news, weather and sports featuring the reporting talents of Dick McCoy, Charlie Hartig, Nate Custer,
Ed Hughes, Mike Rasnick and Stan Garfin.
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| 1970's air personality montege |
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| "Spirit of Tidewater" news sounder and promos 1980s featuring Dale Parsons |
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| Virginian Pilot article describing the Glenrock demolition 19 April 1984 |
The
1980's saw Tom Looney moving into the morning show spot, taking over for Paul Hennings who retired in
1982. In the mid-80's the transmitter site was moved from the Military Circle location in Norfolk to a state-of-the
art installation south of Grandview on Hall Road in Hampton. Landmark Communications sold WTAR in February 1993 to Benchmark
Communications, who changed the network affiliation from CBS to NBC.
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| "News Authority" Tom Looney 7-8am 28 July 1992 (16:10) |
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| Network switch Tom Looney Show 1 February 1993 |
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| "Keeping You In Touch" jingle 1993 |
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| Tom Looney morning show 03 May 1993 |
Pat Murphy aired as the morning host after this time. Here's a promotional
item publicizing him...
In May 1996 Benchmark sold WTAR to Sinclair Communications who in turn moved the call letters to the 850 spot on 17
July 1997, thus bringing an end to WTAR 790 Norfolk.
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| publicizing the odd move 17 July 1997 |
For seventy-three years
and ten months, tens of thousands of hours of broadcast service and entertainment was provided to the listeners of WTAR 790
Norfolk, truly one of America's great radio stations. Because it is with us no more, we pay tribute to it here and welcome
your input and memories. Connect with us and please visit the other sections of this site.
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THE PEOPLE
. . .
Joe Collins has posted an entertaining recollection of his
experience at WTAR on YouTube
and here's a word from Fran Bowles of Virginia Beach...
THANKS FOR REMEMBERING....NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE LEFT THAT DO
ANYMORE. I ENJOYED THE 60'S AT WTAR RADIO. THE 50'S AND 60'S WERE MORE FUN FOR ME AS A BROADCASTER THAN ANY OTHER YEARS.
I CAME HERE FROM MICHIGAN IN THE VERY EARLY 60'S. I LOVED WORKING WITH ALL THE PEOPLE AT WTAR RADIO. IT WAS FUN AND I THINK
IT SHOWED ON THE AIR, BUT AS THE 60'S CAME TO AN END RADIO CHANGED. THE PROGRAMS BECAME FORMATED AND MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT
FOR ME AS A DJ TO PLAY THE MUSIC. MANY TIMES I HAD TO PLAY RECORDS THAT I DIDN'T REALLY LIKE. AND SO WHEN I WAS ASKED TO TRANSFER
TO TV ENGINEERING I DID. I WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE GREAT YEARS AT WTAR RADIO. THANKS AGAIN FOR REMEMBERING........FRAN BOWLES
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| WTAR personnel 1962 |
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| WTAR personnel 1962 and logos |
more recollections from Fran Bowles...
I JOINED THE STATION IN 1960, I BELIEVE. AT THAT
TIME WTAR WAS THE NUMBER "1" STATION IN THE AREA. THE BUILDING ON BOUSH STREET WAS STATE OF THE ART FOR BROADCASTING
AT THAT TIME. RADIO AND TV SHARED THE BUILDING WITH RADIO USING MOST OF THE SECOND FLOOR. THE ON THE
AIR PART OF THE BUILDING INCLUDED A HUGE CONTROL ROOM. ALL THE SIGNALS WENT THROUGH THAT ROOM. TO EITHER
SIDE WAS A VERY LARGE STUDIO BOTH OF WHICH WERE USED EVERY DAY. AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE MILDRED ALEXANDER SHOW
WHICH AIRED EVERY DAY. ALSO THERE WERE TWO SMALLER STUDIOS USED AS ANNOUNCE BOOTHS. ONE WHICH SHORTLY
AFTER I ARRIVED BECAME THE FM STUDIO. THE OTHER ONE WAS USED FOR MOST OF THE DJ SHOWS, SUCH AS THE PAUL HENNINGS SHOW.
ALL RADIO SIGNALS WERE REMOTE CONTROLED TO GLEN ROCK WHERE OUR TRANSMITTER WAS LOCATED. THIS TRANSMITTER BUILDING WAS LOCKED
MOST OF THE TIME. ONCE A DAY AN ENGINEER WOULD GO TO THE BUILDING TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL.
ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT THE DOWNTOWN BUILDING ON BOUSH STREET WAS THAT THE CONTROL ROOM FOR RADIO ON THE SECOND FLOOR WAS
BUILT ON HUGE SPRINGS WHICH WOULD SMOOTH OUT THE VIBRATIONS OF HEAVY TRAFFIC ON BOUSH SO YOU WOULDN'T HEAR THEM ON RADIO.
TODAY I BELIEVE TELEVISION USES THAT CONTROL ROOM FOR SOME OF ITS TV CONTROL ROOM DUTIES. I REMEMBER BEING IMPRESSED
WITH THE OPERATION OF WTAR RADIO AND TV WHEN I JOINED THE STAFF. I HAD NEVER WORKED IN A BUILDING EQUIPPED AS
WELL AS THAT ONE. I ALSO FINISHED MY CAREER THERE.
FRAN BOWLES....RETIRED 1989.
| In Memorium |
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| Bill Pulliam WTAR engineer 1927-2009 |
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| Marv Henry voice extraordinaire 1928-2009 |
Here's a note from Jim Flummer of Virginia Beach...
Hello, I really enjoyed your site.
My name is Jim Flummer, and I worked at WTAR from 1993 to 1999. I was hired by Dan O’Brien. I was an announcer, the
Norfolk Tides studio producer, and the Admirals Hockey studio producer. I worked with Jack Ankerson, Pete Michaux, Joe Collins,
Steve Kelly, Brian Kelly, Tom Looney, Mort Flohr, and a host of other talented people. I did the local traffic when Brian
Kelly was off. I would host the weekend talk shows. I recorded and aired G. Gordon Liddy, Larry King Live, Imus in the Morning,
Sports Byline, The CBS Game of the Week, The Cavalier Call-in Show, The Carolina Panthers, Orioles Baseball, The College Football
Scoreboard Show with Jack Ankerson, and Virginia Tech Football along with The Hokie Hotline. I am the only person who actually
carried WTAR, Virginia’s oldest radio station, in the trunk of my car, the day we switched studios from Boush St. in
Norfolk, to Business Park Dr. in Virginia Beach. A board operator remained at the Boush St. studios, with just a few Public
Service Announcement carts, while I had all of the commercial carts with me, in the car. I had to make it to the new studio
before the network hour-long show we were airing was over, so I could run the commercials at the break. Well, I made it on
time, and became the first person to go on the air at the new studio. To this day, I still get a little nervous thinking about
if I would have had a breakdown, or accident. I still have that dependable car. WTAR was the last station to be moved to the
new studios at Business Park Dr. which were actually the studios and business office of WKOC, 93.7 THE COAST. We had already
moved OLDIES 95.7 there about a month prior. After the Boush St. studios, which were on the second floor of the WTKR-TV building,
were shut down, I noticed that we were missing some items, so I drove to the old studios one Wednesday, the only day I had
off. I worked at WTAR six days a week, and very often seven, when someone wanted off. In addition, I was a DJ at OLDIES 95.7,
which, of course was just down the hall from WTAR, and when OLDIES was sold in 1996, I worked as a DJ at 93.7 THE COAST, (
a whole ‘nother story in itself). On Friday nights, I was on two stations at once. Weeknights on WTAR, we would air
“Sports Byline” up to one o’clock, then carry the Mutual Network all night to six in the morning. However,
on Friday nights, I went on OLDIES at midnight. So, at midnight, I ran down the hall and did a live ID for OLDIES, got the
first song playing, then ran back down to WTAR to play the top of the hour local spots for “Sports Byline”. I
had to run back and forth for the first hour, until “Sports Byline” was over and I could bring up Mutual. My listeners
on OLDIES told me that I always sounded “lively” on the air. Anyway, back to my story. When I arrived at the Boush
St. studios, I was surprised to see that the main Studio control board was gone. I looked around and found the missing items,
and when I went into the news room, I found a lot of WTAR history in a large trash can. Old record albums from the 50’s,
60’s, and 70’s, stamped WTAR-FM on the covers, old bumper stickers, and my most prized possession from the station,
an original 8.5” X 11” piece of WTAR_AM, FM, and TV letterhead, still in an old file, which I had custom framed,
and proudly display at my home today as part of my WTAR mini-museum. I rescued all that I could find from the trash, including
WTAR cups, letter openers, and a color photo of a billboard advertising “WTAR 790 THE NEWS AUTHORITY”. I was also
the lucky main board operator the night that WTAR celebrated their 70th Anniversary, live from the old Cavalier
Hotel Ballroom, complete with Jack Ankerson and Becky Livas hosting and interviewing many former “Greats”
from WTAR’s past. We ran it like an old live Big Band broadcast from the 1930’s. Our Governor at the time, Doug
Wilder, was in attendance, and spoke on the air, congratulating the station for it’s many proud years of service. Both
the Governor and later myself, received WTAR 70th Anniversary clocks. Mine ticks today as part of my WTAR museum.
I recorded the entire show, and it went off without a hitch. If you’ve worked in radio, you know that live broadcasts
can sometimes have many problems. We were lucky that night. I also recorded many Public Service Announcements, commercial,
and promos for WTAR, all of which I saved to cassette. In addition, I saved the original background music for the weather
broadcasts, and station ID carts from the trash. I enjoyed my time at WTAR, and look back on those years fondly. Sincerely,
Jim Flummer
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| Jim Flummer at WTAR in 1996 |
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| these images contributed by Jim Flummer |
We also acknowledge...
JACK LIGHT... BERNIE MELTON... ANDY ROBERTS... JOE FOULKES... LAVERNE WATSON... DON
ROSE... MILDRED ALEXANDER... JIM STANLEY... JOE PERKINS... JEFF DANE... ANDY TOMPKINS... ART SEBENECK... THE "MONIKER'S
HONAKER"... CAMPBELL ARNOUX... DICK FRAIM... CHARLIE HARTIG... NATE CUSTER... ED HUGHES... JOHN ENNIS... MARV HENRY... LEE
LIVELY... PETE MICHAUD... WALLY SALE... DALE GAUDING... BILL PULLIAM... JOHN ZAUN... BRUCE GARRAWAY... ZACK YATES...
DICK MCCOY... ART RYERSON... LARRY SAUNDERS... CHARLES BEACH... JACK PRINCE... AL BASNIGHT... MIKE RASNICK... LOU NELSON...
BRUCE BARRY... BILL WHITEHURST... RON REGER... BOYD HARRIER... MIKE RAU... CAMPBELL ARNOUX... DARRYL HOSACK... BRIAN KELLY...
JACK ANKERSON... BOB RIDLE... JIM QUINN... MATT TIAHART... MIKE SEACHREST... NORMAN BEASLEY... MITCHELL MILLER... WALLY DOUGLAS...
CARROLL JAMES... WADE WILLIAMS...JOHN GARRY... THURMAN WASHINGTON... JOHN CRAVER... AL KNIGHT... HENRY DRIVER... JAY CHARLES...
STEVE THOMAS... ROBERT M LAMBE...DR. BILL WHITEHURST... BECKY LIVAS... PS HUBER... JOHN W NEW... HENRY COWLES WHITEHEAD...
RALPH S HATCHER... JULIUS L GRETHER... FRANCES McLEOD... JOHN C PEFFER... JOEL CARLSON... FRED N LOWE... RICHARD L LINDELL...
GILBERT McLEOD... BETTY B REINECKE... ALICE BREWER WHITE... WILLIAM JOHNSON... JACK BLACK... ROBERT DAVIS... HAROLD SOLDINGER...
HAL POWELL... CLAYTON EDWARDS... RAYMOND TURNER... HARRY W MOORE JR... JAMES EVANS... BRICK RIDER... JOHN GRIFFIN... LEE KITCHIN...
JIM MAYS... WILLIAM GIETZ... EDMOND JOHNSON JR... JOE MARTELLE... SHERRI BRENNAN... PAUL S HUBER... CHARLTON WHITEHEAD...
CLYDE MOSER... EMILEIGH WHITEHEAD...JEFF BAKER... BILL SEARLE... JOHN ERIC... JOHN CARL MORGAN... JAY MILTNER... TOM HANES...
WINDER HARRIS... BAILEY BARCO... MRS PAUL M KENDRICK "AUNT JANE"... LUCY BROOKE WITT... SANDUSKY CURTIS... MRS DEVELAN
COWLES... WD SULLIVAN... JOHN J MURPHY... ALF MAPP... CHESTER SHADDEAU... DIANA GUNN... MRS CHARLES DAY... RALPH HATCHER...
JAMES MAYS... JOHN DAVIDSON... JAMES MAYS... JOHN DAVIDSON... JAMES EVANS... RALPH BEAMON... EROLD
LOTRIDGE... DON KNOX... NORM FEIN... WILLIAM GASPAR... RAY SHOUSE... RONALD PHILIPS... WILLIAM McLEAN...
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