WEZE "Window"

[Dan.Strassberg]

Wasn't the studio in the Statler Office Building, which adjoined the
hotel, and not in the hotel itself?

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From: "Russ Butler" <songbook2@comcast.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@tsornin.bostonradio.org>; <tcoco@whav.net>;
"Russ Butler" <songbook2@comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:26 AM
Subject: WEZE "Window"


> Tim Coco mentioned the WEZE "window studio on the street level" -
> that would be on the first floor of The Statler Hotel, at the curved
> corner that had wrap around windows.
>
> I believe they also had drapes that could be pulled together for
> some privacy or nighttime security.(Columbus Avenue and Stuart
> Street weren't that friendly at night in the 1950's). I don't think
> the windows were bullet-proof glass (like Lexan on the NYC "Today"
> show set, etc.) but there weren't many people walking past the
> window to stop and look anyway.  Drivers  would blow their car horns
> driving past that corner of what is now The Boston Park Plaza.
> (Everybody wants to be heard on the radio, I guess)
>
> Interesting side note: The Statler in Boston was the first hotel in
> the world to offer in-room radio service when it opened in 1927. It
> was a two channel system with guests able to select the channel from
> a receiver and listen with either 2 headsets or radio loudspeaker.
> The cost of this installation in Boston was $50,000 (1927 dollars,
> by the way) and it cost another $750,000 to install radios in the
> chain's six older houses.  I wonder what two channels or stations
> they chose that guests would be able to hear in 1927?  WBZ, of
> course, the other?
>
> (I'll bet these 2 channels worked better than those cheesy, little
> table alarm clock radios the hotels have now with no decent
> reception at all on AM or FM - buzzing yes, music no).
>
> =Russ Butler  songbook2@comcast.net
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