New "Toy"...

[Sandy G]

Got in that Model 3000-1 Trans-Oceanic I'd ordered from the guy I got my 621 T/S, Bill Kalcik in Wisconsin, back a few months ago. I HAVE another 3K-1, but this one is far better cosmetically & operationally. I'm THINKIN' its an older set, FM was still a big enuff "Deal" that they had a nationwide log of FM stations in the owners' manual, & there was a postcard from a Chicago FM station that advertised "Beautiful Music", along w/a list of all the OTHER FM stations in Chicagoland. I wanna put in a plug for Bill-Both items I've gotten from him were BETTER condition, I thought, than he'd advertised, the packing was superb, & while I paid a little more than what maybe some would have, big deal, I'm happy. He told me that he has like 2 warehouses full of "Goodies" he's wanting to get rid of. I think I'll be back as a customer..

[Username1]

Well put up a dam picture..................

[Sandy G]

(Sigh...) Wish I could.. Too dam Stoopid..

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Username1

Well put up a dam picture..................

Here you go.


And while I'm at it here is another dam picture... Hoover to be precise.


Enjoy.

[Sandy G]

The Hoover is a VERY impressive dam... Several TVA dams we have 'round here are somewhat impressive, too. NOTHIN' like THAT, though. Dated a gal back in '89 who lived in Turtletown, Tennessee, down in the FAR southeast corner of the state. LOTS of dams there, they were all built in the Thirties w/shovels. pickaxes, sweat & Dead Reckoming..

[old_tv_nut]

Which station was listed as the "beautiful music" station? We used to have a station in Chicago that played what most people would call elevator music. They were also the only station in Chicago that implemented Dolby FM noise reduction, and broadcast a calibration tone briefly every evening. They also had auxiliary programming on a (monaural) subcarrier with topics for doctors, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

[Sandy G]

It says "WCLR 102 FM", & has a line drawing of "Big John" on it, so I assume they broadcast from the John Hancock Tower.

[Username1]

EM; that's a dam nice Dam picture......


WPAT 93.1 in Paterson, NJ "Beautiful Music 24hrs a day" My parents listened to it all the time, until it became a
Spanish station... When I was a kid I didn't know other music existed until I got my own radio....... Good
thing that happened real early....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPAT-FM

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[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

It says "WCLR 102 FM", & has a line drawing of "Big John" on it, so I assume they broadcast from the John Hancock Tower.

That's the one.

[Sandy G]

They put their phone # on there-312-677-5900, & their motto-"The ULTIMATE Blend-In Beautiful Music !", along w/a sampling of what they'd play-"April in Portugal"-by Enoch Light,"Close To You"- Ronnie Aldrich, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head-Hugo Winterhalter.. "Beautiful Music" stations NEVER apparently played the originals, just "Emasculated" cover versions.

[DavGoodlin]

Any town of size here, about 35 miles apart had one FM station, usually with call letters identical to the original AM station.

My formative years learning electronics and general workshop practices under the tutelage of my or my friends' 40-something Dads were all set to those "nice" and "easy" FM soundtracks. It was actually strange to hear the original song with vocals later. I especially remember what they did with the Beatles' tunes.

Imagine noise of a welder, grinder, drillpress, planer, saw, hammering, banging, cursing etc drowning out all other sound which stops suddenly, punctuated by instrumentals "raindrops keep falling on my head" or "El Paso" instead of silence.
The aroma of cigar and/or pipe smoke accompanied these sessions as usual.

Just like the Blues Brothers getting into the elevator after the huge chase scene into Chicago, sappy instrumental music playing....

When we finally got wise and connected a good tuner to a big antenna on the roof, it was all classic rock and blues from then on, meanwhile the easy listening music faded away in the early 80's in favor of "light adult contemporary" format.
Now, I actually miss elevator music......where did I put that LP of the Longines Symphonette

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

... We used to have a station in Chicago that played what most people would call elevator music. They were also the only station in Chicago that implemented Dolby FM noise reduction, and broadcast a calibration tone briefly every evening. They also had auxiliary programming on a (monaural) subcarrier with topics for doctors, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

In New York City in the 60's we had about 3 or more "beautiful music" stations on FM, WPAT, WRFM, WTFM, and I think WVNJ. They probably had different flavors of this music, but it sounded the same to a kid wanting rock and roll. There's lots of elevators in NYC

I think it was WEVD that had an SCA subcarrier "Physicians Radio Network" that IIRC had spots similar to those drug commercials we see on TV nowadays. "See your copy of "Physicians Radio Network Journal" for the disclaimers and side effects that include death".

WNCN, today a classic rock station, was a classical music station that also broadcast a brief calibration tone.

I especially remember what they did with the Beatles' tunes.

You can find those covers on youtube...

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Username1

EM; that's a dam nice Dam picture......

Thanks, but they are not my dam pictures. I just grabbed them off the interwebs for comedic effect...

[Sandy G]

Quite a few of the TVA dams I've seen leak. None leak BADLY, but about all have "Weeping" places where the water seeps out. You'd THINK they'd wanna fix that, but they don't. As most of them are approaching 70 years & older, the leaks are certainly unsightly.. The "Quick" construction they did back then made for some minor mistakes. We went to Fontana Dam, right over the border in North Carolina, it was sort of their "Showpiece" dam. The "Power House" was particularly impressive-Huge, Thirties-era machinery, kept in IMMACULATE shape. You could EAT off any of it, but they'd likely YELL at you for doing that. In '89, when I saw it, they were just putting on modern programmable logic controllers, which seemed rinky-dink & out of place in that 1939-style facility..I can't remember how many they had, but the "Generator Room", there were 5 or 6 HUGE generators lined up in a row.. There was ANOTHER dam, deep in the woods that had a HUGE culvert that a semi & trailer coulda fit in, the culvert went for something like 12 miles to ANOTHER dam. They started work on 'em on either end, & met up in the middle. Now, this was in a VERY remote area, thru mountains, rivers, valleys, that was STILL quite remote even in '89. They built this thing w/virtually NO modern equipment, & when they met, the 2 teams were only like 10-12" off...

[Sandy G]

Omigawd, am I the WORST Dam "Thread-Crapper" or what ?!? (grin)