"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
What getting ready for New Years Eve sounded like in San Francisco in 1949, via KCBS. I originally posted this in 2013 – the City has changed even more since then. Gotten even less affordable to live – less gritty…
– KNX- Mike Roy Cooking Show – Dec. 18, 1967 – Cooking programs were a regular staple in the daily diet of a radio station up until the 1990s. Most are gone now. The few that are left are relegated…
KFBK Coverage of San Francisco Earthquake – October 17, 1989 – KFBK Radio – Unless you’ve experienced one, describing an Earthquake and living through it are two different things. And no amount of description can quite match the sensation of…
– Keeping Up With The Joneses – April 15, 1959 – KNX-Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Hard to imagine now, but in 1959 Los Angeles was in danger of becoming an overcrowded city, like so many cities…
With Europe at War and America becoming increasingly involved, Labor Day in 1941 (which came on September 1st that year) found the U.S. geared for war production – the labor force turned to building a military arsenal, the factories and…
Rollingwood USA – KCBS-San Francisco – March 3, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Rollingwood, California – a suburb just south of San Francisco near Richmond, became the focal point of a debate on racial discrimination and violence in…
– June 7, 1947 – ABC Radio – News Of Tomorrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 1947 – news for this day was about survival and about reconstruction. Secretary of State George Marshall was in Paris to…
While the war continued in the Pacific, efforts to establish a lasting and workable peace in Europe, which would eventually include those places currently embroiled in war, were slowly moving forward. On this May 26th in 1945, meetings were held…
– KMPC – Dick Whittinghill – 7-8:00 am – June 26, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Not every radio station in Los Angeles threw open its doors and welcomed Rock n’ Roll with open arms. No. Although, in…
– Vivian Stanshall’s Big Grunt – In Session for John Peel – March 16, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 – How do you explain The Bonzo Dog Band to people who have never heard of The Bonzo Dog Band? More…