The D.A.
Familiar Face
- Messages
- 77
- Location
- Lawrence, Kansas
My father was a big fan of old time radio, and he probably had over a hundred reel-to-reel tapes that he bought from a mail order catalog. When I was very young we would listen for hours to a wide variety of programs. I especially remember The Shadow, Captain Midnight, Gunsmoke, Terry and the Pirates, and some program about the adventures of a British newspaper reporter in the Old West. It all ended when I decided to insert a partially-consumed lollipop into the works of the tape player while it was running. The result was a disaster, with tape going everywhere, my dad storming back into the room demanding to know what had happened, and me pleading ignorance (with partially-consumed lollipop in hand). He quickly got to the bottom of things when he opened the player up and found pieces of lollipop in the mechanism. Despite my dad's efforts to clean the player, it never really was the same after that, and we stopped listening to the tapes soon after. My dad still has all of the tapes, but now they're over 30 years old and have been stored in a box in the garage, so they're probably junk.
For a while in the early to mid '70s a Kansas City AM radio station aired The Shadow in the afternoons, and I used to listen to that. Then the Kansas City Mob blew-up the River Quay area, where the radio station was located, and that was the end of that.
Later I listened to the radio dramatizations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Lord of the Rings on NPR. While not vintage, they certainly were made in the spirit of the OTR programs.
For a while in the early to mid '70s a Kansas City AM radio station aired The Shadow in the afternoons, and I used to listen to that. Then the Kansas City Mob blew-up the River Quay area, where the radio station was located, and that was the end of that.
Later I listened to the radio dramatizations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Lord of the Rings on NPR. While not vintage, they certainly were made in the spirit of the OTR programs.