Old WCLZ building gone

[Dan Billings]

Scott Fybush reports in the latest North East Radio Watch that the building 
that used to host the studios of WCLZ came down last week.

http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html#me

I spent many hours in that building during my three tours of duty at WCLZ. 
It was the first radio station that I worked at -- though my first times on 
the air were broadcasting high school football games, not in the studios. 
The building really was like an old barn.  It was full of mice.  During one 
overnight shift, me and a colleague killed over 50 mice with four traps.  I 
can still see an applicant for a sales job sitting in the lobby with a mouse 
sitting across the room looking at her.  I don't think she was impressed.

I spent the night in the dark without power in the building during Hurricane 
Gloria.  I was also on the air twice when the tower was hit by lightening. 
The second time, the board was fried.

After I left WCLZ, I went to work at WAYU on Lisbon Street in Lewiston.  The 
building that housed WAYU at the time burned down a little over a year ago.

So the first two buildings that I broadcast from are now gone.  I feel old.

My third job was at WLAM.  The old Broadcasting Barn is still there in 
Auburn, though it looks vacant whenever I drive by.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine