Re: Adventure Car Hop/Ginsburger

["Terrence M. Wood" <TERRY_WOOD@prodigy.net>]

As a teeny-bopper in the 50s, I drove from Kittery, Maine to Saugus quite a
few times to say WOO-WOO and get a free "45" at the Adventure Car Hop.
Girls weren't bad either!  Food was so-so.

It's been along time since then and I don't remember its exact location,
but I have seen its canopy still there on route one.

Terry
- -----Original Message-----
From: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>
To: ROBERT W PAINE <TEBZ17A@prodigy.com>;
boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
<boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Adventure Car Hop/Ginsburger


>At 08:18 AM 4/30/98 -0500, ROBERT W PAINE wrote:
>>
>> I first heard of Arnie Ginsburg around 1970 from the Cruisin' series
>>adverts on WMEX. I bought the 1961 album and was hooked. Just sorry I
>>didn't get to hear him live on WIMMEX, although I did hear his retro
>>weekends on 'BZ.
>
>
>Just my opinion here, but I think Arnie's ace in the hole is that he got in
>on the ground floor of rock & roll radio in Boston, and got out at the
>right time.  I never heard him until '64/'65, and aside from the sound
>effects and an occasional play on words (K-night Train show), he seemed to
>be just another jock.  Granted, by the time I heard him, rock radio was
>everywhere & Arnie's schtik was getting a bit stale..I'm sure he was the
>cutting edge in the 50s.  When Drake radio came along, it was the end of
>Arnie's era...non-compete clauses notwithstanding, I don't think he would
>have lasted long on WRKO...heard him once and being a Drake jock wasn't his
>thing....Good Guys radio was history, and he deserves credit for exiting
>gracefully. I do have to also give him credit for being willing/able to
>poke fun of the fact that he had a lousy voice..too many jocks (no names,
>please) seemed to be very much in love with the sound of their voices.  I
>never cared for his shows on WBZ or WROR...hearing him play the Bee Gees or
>Barry Manilow was like hearing Wolfman Jack play Led Zeppelin, and his
>oldies shows sounded too contrived to me...but then, I'm not a fan of "jock
>reunion weekends" where some oldies station becomes a parody of old-time
>top 40 and brings back a bunch of old timers out mothballs.
>
>Please don't flame me on the last statement...if you like jock reunion
>weekends, by all means enjoy them...they're just not my cup of tea.

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