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Originally posted by soundmind
Hey Indiana. Land of Gene Shepherd. Ever read "In God We Trust, All Other's Pay Cash" or see Gene Shepherd's Christmas Story? He made a living on WOR radio NY partly out of talking about growing up in Indiana during the depression and he was a ham radio operator too. That is until lightning hit the house they were renting and split it in two. Years later as an adult, he went back and could still see where it had been patched.
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Please, it's JEAN Shepherd.
Spent most of the evenings of my youth listening to him on WOR. Since he was on late, a lot of that listing was done stealthfully “under the covers” with an earpiece I had wired into an old tube radio. He had a nightly radio show for years and did a weekly live show on Saturday nights from a nightclub call the Limelight. He often talked about building radios, DXing and ham radio as well as working in steel mills, his army days in the Signal Corp and reflecting on life and people. He is credited with coining the phrase “night people.”
Flick Lives!
- Pete