| I lived in this "motel" room in Gunnison, Colorado for a few months. When my roomate tired of that we moved to two other places in sequence. When he wanted to move a third time I stayed put. While I lived here I worked at a ranch west of town, at a local restaurant, and at the local radio station. |
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| This is the board at KGUC in Gunnison when I worked there in 1975. I remember that one Sunday the big news was that "The recession has bottomed out!" This little board was probably intended for use in a small production room, and not as a main broadcast mixer. There were two pots for microphones, two pots for turntables, tape decks, etc. and one pot for network connections (we had the Intermountain Radio Network which fed ABC to all its stations). |
| This is a geek at work. I was reading the signoff script. With such primitive equipment, most spots were read live. To do sign off we cued up a military promo record with the national anthem, read the script, played the cut off the LP, and shut the transmitter off when the music finished. |
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| Same geek, different station. By then I'd developed a taste for western wear -- cowboy boots and western shirts (never wore the hat). I especially liked quilted shirts, so this one was a natural. WION's board was by the same manufacturer and about the same age as KGUC's, but it had more channels and was more flexible (also easier to make bigger goofs). |
| This is a car I bought after I started college. This 1974 Vega was just over four years old when I purchased it at a used car lot in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The color turned out to be quite useful, since it made it harder to see all the rust. I junked the car out in 1982 when I moved to Pennsylvania because at that time the state's strict auto inspection law made this car unlicensable (because of all the rust). |
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| WHFB [Heart of the Fruit Belt], in Benton Harbor, Michigan had more modern equipment. I worked there in 1977-1978 while at college. I had a few triumphs and a few blowouts. For several months I was the voice of K-Mart on that station. I also did a little creative stuff on a few spots of which I'm still rather proud. |
| This is the house my folks bought in Ionia, Michigan when we moved there in 1975. (The previous picture of the Vega was taken on the street north of this house.) These colors are what my Dad chose when he had the house repainted several years after we moved in. Before it was white with green trim. The house was over 200 years old then! |
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| Talk about geeks! I watched this guy's wedding on the Johnny Carson show while I was still in high school. I had no idea he was this big. The guy next to Tiny Tim is John Tickner, general manager of the station they're standing in front of, WACK. I was News Director there at the time. |
| This picture was taken at a Little League park not far from where I lived in Newark, New York (home of WACK). |
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 | Here I am at a live appearance for WACK at Sodus Point, New York. Sodus Point is a resort town on Lake Ontario. My boss said I had fun at remotes and that it came out in my voice when I was on the air. The trailer behind me was our remote trailer, which was once seized by the IRS! |
| Gerry DeBarr was supervisor of the Town of Arcadia (which included Newark) when I started at WACK. I had several opportunities to interview him on tape, and obviously I also photographed him once! |
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| As news director at WACK I had the opportunity to cover the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant, put on each summer by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The hill is actually a drumlin south of Palmyra New York where Joseph Smith claimed to have found the golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon. This picture shows a reporter from Channel 5 in Syracuse doing her standup during the "destruction" scene. The actual pageant was staged at night, with computer-controlled lights indicating what part of the hill should get the audience's attention. The black-robed figure is not an actor, but a props person. In an actual performance this person would carry a smoke generator, and by carefully timing movements would not been seen. |
| This is the Buffalo Suburban Seventh-day Adventist Church. The building is located just south of the New York State Thruway several miles east of Buffalo. I visited this church on my motorcycle to see a particular young lady. She was there, but I bumped into a college friend (who was assistant pastor at the church) and never got to talk to her. | 
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