jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

We never got KOMA, but we did get WWL, & WBAP, so I got my nightly doses of Charlie Douglas & Bill Mack.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Probably not...I think they're changed call letters to KOKC,
The program heard in that time slot is most likely "Coast-to-Coast AM. I lost many a nights sleep listening to it myself.

Frank 2012 Loc: Olathe, Kansas

And Lamont Cranston was "The Shadow"

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

So was Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead was Margo Laine his side kick.

ceallachain Loc: Cape May, NJ

Those days we could imagine stuff nobody told us what was scary, beautiful or whatever. We could do it ourselves. Now the kids sit in front of a TV and have no ability to imagine things. Nor can they go outside lay on their back look at the clouds and imagine what it was. Too bad.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

Don't let Frank & Mike see it! The price will go up. I used to listen to the shadow. I didn't understand it because I was too young, but I liked the words. Speaking of words, My mom used to listen to Mitch Miller all of the time and when he came to television, they would scroll the words across the bottom of the screen with that bouncing ball. That was so cool! I couldn't read yet, but I liked the ball.

Miriam

Anybody here old enough to remember the "feud" between Jack Benny and Fred Allen? And then there were the jokes about Benny's tight-fistedness.
Bandit: Your money or your life! Jack: I'm thinking; I'm thinking.

farnsworth52 Loc: W. Pa.

James, I've got a good one for you. My grandfather used to work for RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey as a machinist. He and a friend figured a way to get his very old short wave radio to play old radio programs. My Dad and Uncle almost died when he changed the channel and played the original broadcast of War of the Worlds and changed it again to play original Lone Ranger. It took them about 10 minutes to figure it was a rigged joke but for those 10 min it was absolutely hilarious. I'd still like to know how they did it because it would be nice to setup one of those old radios like that

Drigby1 Loc: American Fork, UT

Now that is a real radio and a picture too. Yee haw

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

That sounds familiar...my folks used to drag me and my brother out to the sticks to visit my Great Grandparents who lived way out in the boonies. On Saturday nights they all gathered around the TV to watch Mitch Miller and sometimes Lawrence Welk (I can't remember which, probably both). But I do remember the bouncing ball, it made playing with vacuum formed toy airplanes more fun for some reason.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Sounds like a hoot...maybe they rebroadcast those programs over short wave somehow. I bet that was quite a funny deal. I still listen to that broadcast every Halloween. "2X2L calling CQ", that was when the army was communicating in the fields near Grovers Mill. All other forms of communications had broken down. Heat rays were scorching the countryside...
I always enjoy it every year.

Frank 2012 Loc: Olathe, Kansas

My folks used to take me and my brother and two sisters to visit my aunt and uncle on their farm (1943-50). No TV, no radio,no electricity, no running water. They had horses, cows, pigs, chickens, cats and kittens everywhere, raccoons, possums, coyotes, bobcats.... kerosene lights at night and
the best drinking water from a deep well...always cold on hottest days. My uncle's name was Sam.."Uncle Sam" and he was a character. My dad asked him when he was ever going to get a radio and he said. "when ever I get electricity". Then my dad asked him how he would ever know what was going on in the world, especially the war news. He said that he would find out every Sunday at church because one or two members had a radio and they would pass on the information. My uncle and aunt were living almost like the pioneers except he had two tractors to go along with four huge plough horses. My brother and I didn't miss listening to The Shadow, Tom Mix,
Hop Harrigan (fighter pilot), Superman or any radio programs when we were visiting Uncle Sam's farm. His farm was real adventure for two little boys.

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Some folks lived like your Aunt and Uncle...it was just a way of life and they were happy that way. Yours is a very nice story, I really enjoyed it. And... I've been to Olathe many times. It's really grown though. The flights over the Midwest are controlled by the FAA facility there.

Ed Loc: Massachusetts

Do you recall how much the radio was selling for, just curious

Tradscot Loc: Cairns, Australia

My cousins and I would turn the lights off and have only the light of the radio dial.....this particular night the Roller Blind " let go" 60 years later they are still trying to repair the ceiling!!! They were the "good ol days!,"
Bill.