Larry Glick

[Jon Maguire]

Kevin, roger on WCOP AM being on all night with country music. I was 
there 1970-75.

Jon Maguire W1MNK Brandon, FL USA

kvahey@comcast.net wrote:
> I visited him many times after I got out of work. Carl the security
> guard just waved me through and it was a pleasure watching the man
> work. Charlie the cabbie was almost always there and a couple of
> others.
>
> Larry took great delight in the torture of waking Carl up which
> apparently was never a given that he actually was awake and on his way
> to work.
>
> You have to remember that in the 70's TV wasn't on all night until
> George Fennell came along on channel 5 and there was no cable. FM was
> just taking root but for an older audience there was just Bruce Lee at
> EEI, Norm Nathan at HDH, A generic jock at RKO, and who knows what at
> MEX.(WCOP may have been all night with country as well) Larry owned
> the market then and he said his biggest competition came from Bill
> Corsair at WCAU Philadelphia who used to do all.  nights at WICE in
> Providence.
>
> Larry was just very, very good at doing nothing and I mean that as a complement.
>
> On 3/8/08, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
>   
>>> you wrote--
>>> He made every caller feel important and never talked down or insulted
>>> a bad one.
>>> He really was the best friend for untold millions of lonely people
>>> across the country.
>>>       
>> Yes, that is what I had heard.  He was never rude or insulting or
>> nasty. And even newspapers like the Chicago Tribune knew of his work,
>> thanks to that big booming WBZ signal...
>>
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