Great column last month on old time radio. We really do hint at our age when we profess to listening to radio every night in the 40’s and 50’s. TV changed all that, but we have great memories.
- Jack Benny would continually enter a train station. The train announcer would announce a train leaving on track 5 for which Southern California cities, which never seemed to get any passengers?
- Fred Allen would take a weekly trip up Allen’s Alley to chat with the occupants. The first stop was always at the home of a bombastic southern politician, who was the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. What was his name?
- The most unusual star was Charlie McCarthy, a comic puppet. Can you imagine being amused by a ventriloquist that you could not see. Who was the ventriloquist?
- Jack Armstrong was the most famous daytime adventure show. What high school did Jack attend?
- What famous movie director hosted “Lux Radio Theater,” which dramatized movies with many of the original stars?
- The most popular radio show of the 30’s was “Amos and Andy>” What was the name of their lodge?
October Answers:
- Eliot Asinof
- Charkie Sheen
- “Shoeless” Joe Jackson
- Charles Comiskey
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- One (2006)
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