Getting ready for the onslaught of Festivals this year. Rock and Jazz aren’t the exclusive property of the Festival atmosphere. Festivals throughout Europe featuring Classical music probably outnumber the others by a sizable number. But we have our fair share too. Certainly, The Hollywood Bowl season (which should be kicking
– CBS Radio – Virginia Integration – 1958 When the Supreme Court handed down its decision on Brown vs.The Board of Education, declaring segregated schools unconstitutional in 1954, you would have thought the school districts around the U.S. would be quick in complying. No. Far from it. The resistance
– NBC Radio – Life And The World – Chicago – Frank Lloyd Wright – Carl Sandberg -Oct. 30, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I ran across this interview with Poet Carl Sandberg and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright giving their impressions of living in Chicago from October of
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This day in 1957 we were, not only in the midst of a Cold War with the Soviet Union, we were anxiously looking at the coming elections in West Germany to see where this lynchpin in the East-West powerplay would go. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer paid a state visit
– NBC Radio Funeral for John Foster Dulles – May 27, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – The name John Foster Dulles probably doesn’t ring a lot of bells these days, aside from the name of an Airport in Washington D.C. – time and new players have clouded the
You will probably be listening to this and you’ll wonder if this is a description of life on another planet or parallel universe. It certainly bears no resemblance to life in 2025. It was, in fact 72 years ago. This was what young Women were having to face in the
News on this day in 1958 had to do with the aftermath of the disastrous visit by vice-President Nixon to South America. In each of the stops on this State visit, the Nixon party was greeted with bottles, rocks and violent Anti-American demonstrations. By 1958, relations between the United States
– Pomona Fairgrounds – Leonard Cummings Interviews J.C. Agajanian and Tony Bettenhauser – Feb. 24, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Car Culture – an integral part of our Society since someone had the brilliant idea of matching up the internal combustion engine with wheels. But after World War
– NBC Radio – New World – Easter: 1956 – April 4, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1956,the Cold War Public Relations campaign was in full blossom. Differences between “The Free World” and the Communist Dominated East was particularly acute around Holiday time. With Easter probably the
