these are syndicated programs and could be played most any time i found newspaper listings and ads and articles in 1946 for both episodes this was also the year written on the contents sheet of the re

1946 was verified by newspaper research

Don't forget tonight's special event!! https://youtu.be/TJbHrNP3H7c 8PM ET / 5PM PT, and archived on youtube thereafter. Gregg Oppenheimer is the son of Jess Oppenheimer, head writer for I Love Lucy a

Thanks so much for you comment! I have edited the page to better reflect the intended meaning. Editorial comments on the pages are greatly appreciated. It's all a work in progress. If anyone is has an

I checked newspapers.com and there were indeed broadcasts -- it is not well documented, but it seems there was an attempt to run new productions. but i suspect they were re-runs arch oboler was doing

OTRdom lost a key figure in its transition from analog to digital culture and the communications that promoted conventions and the hobby's overall cohesiveness. Charlie Summers, of the email Old Time

THANKS so very much!

archive.org has certified The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection as an official collection at their site. https://archive.org/details/joe-hehn?tab=about There are only 50 pages there now (basciaclly, a page

My understanding is that this is similar to the Hehn collection that we are working on now. There is a portion of the reels that are vintage from a collector in the 1960s that may have been digitized

WHISTLER NEWS! Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC and Same Time Same Station fame was following the thread and he sent me this short segment with Roy Rowan and Wilbur Hatch talking about the Whistler music htt

Catching up on a couple of items Howie Wing: I went through the reels again as I continue to sort and ship and there were no HW's. Another case of bad handwriting on reel contents sheets that I though

The Hehn reels have been happily dominating my OTR time of late. Some of the collector names on the boxes or contents sheets are interesting, all names that were well known at that time in the hobby.

Thanks so much for your kind thoughts and your offer. I checked the shipping rates and they are unfortunately very very high. Email me privately with your address or general location and perhaps somet

Yes, there were a couple of reels that I saw this morning -- when I go back to sort through I will keep an eye out for them!

I went through the reels again to consolidate boxes and to ship some boxes to our volunteers. These shipments were of Fibber, Vic & Sade, and Lux (many AFRS recordings from discs that will replace a g

Gordon: Scripts can be sent in the US via Media Mail https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm and in doing some cost comparison shipping to Canada is 5x-8x the cost depending on the weigh

We need some helpers in processing many of these reels. While we find some items that fell out of circulation or were never widely circulated in this collection that is mainly from the late 1960s thro

The video is now available on YouTube and there's no need to go to Facebook to see it https://youtu.be/QqsPHkdBMaY

I obviously missed something... A curated collection of what?

Yesterday was the virtual 2020 MidAtlantic Nostalgia Convention and my presentation about the history and background of this series was presented. It's a 43 minute video. It got very nice response! Li