RE: Looking for WMCA family information

["Ira Apple" <iapple@erols.com>]

Gavin:

I will go with Donna regarding Nathan.  But it is R. Peter.

Ira Apple

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Donna
Halper
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 2:46 AM
To: Gavin B. Burt
Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: Looking for WMCA family information


Gavin wrote--
>I am doing a research paper in college on the history
>of radio, and I am trying to find out if Nathan
>Straus, past owner of WMCA, is father to R. Peter
>Straus and grandfather to Eric Straus (who owns
>stations in New York's Hudson Valley).  

I thought it was J. Peter Strauss, but never mind-- they are, as far as I
know, all part of the same radio family-- Nathan was originally in real
estate, in fact, till he bought WMCA in the 40s I think it was the 40s-- I
don't have my research books here right now...)   For more about the entire
Strauss clan and their involvement with radio, consult the book by Bill
Jaker, "The Airwaves of New York."  

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