Fw: The Answer

[Paul B. Currier]

Thanks Donna.  Yes WHIL - from the good days of radio; good DJ's like Jack
Chatterton, George Fennell...the other names escape me.

Paul
Cape Cod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: The Answer


> At 10:18 AM 12/26/2004 -0500, Paul wrote:
> >Memories of the WBZ tower falling on Nelson Bragg's (I think) car during
one
> >of the hurricanes in '54 or '55.
> >The news pic had him "Oh no-ing" with his hand on his forehead.
>
> Yes, the WBZ tower fell in the late summer of 1954, as I recall-- I have
> several news clippings and pictures of it.  It's amazing nobody was
> killed.  In fact, both WBZ radio and WBZ TV remained on the air, if my
> memory serves... (I was just a kid, and much of Boston lost power, but
> thanks to the ubiquitous transistor radios, we were able to hear the
> news...)   And how about the WHIL tower (remember old WHIL?) on Revere
> Beach Parkway in Medford?  I have an article from 5 September 1957:  198
> Foot Radio Tower Crashes to Ground, Misses Studio.
>
>