Fw: The Answer

[Paul B. Currier]

Or was Chatterton on WLYN with Johnny Towne and all...???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul B. Currier" <paulcurrier@adelphia.net>
To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: The Answer


> 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.
> >
> >
>