Radio Tower 26: The History of Radios with John Vuolo, 1920s edition.
Release Date: 11/07/2020
Episode 30: Andy Mendelsohn on WBAB and WRCN
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Andy Mendelsohn gravitated to radio from an early age. By the time he was in high school in East Northport, he found himself on the school's station and at an internship at WBAB. This brought him into the orbit of Bob Buchmann, Roger Luce and Rockin' Robin, among others. After a stint in college and radio in Connecticut and Westchester, he returned to Long Island in the nineties on WRCN to battle WBAB for ratings and local bragging rights.
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Episode 29: Chris Verga and the Long Island Home Front
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Historian and author Chris Verga discusses his new book, World War II Long Island: The Homefront in Nassau and Suffolk.
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Radio Tower 28: The History of Radios with John Vuolo Part III
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Join us for part III of our conversation with board member John Vuolo. We continue our look at the advancement of radio technology up through the 1970s with some detours along the way.
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Radio Tower 27: The History of Radios with John Vuolo. Part II
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We're running a miniseries of interviews with LIRTVHS board member John Vuolo about the history and development of radios.
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Radio Tower 26: The History of Radios with John Vuolo, 1920s edition.
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LIRTVHS board member John Vuolo, a radio collector and restoration expert, discusses radios from the 1920s. How did they operate, how many survive, and how do you go about making them work again?
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Episode 25: Bob Hobday and the Antique Wireless Museum
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Today we speak with Bob Hobday about the operations of the Antique Wireless Museum in Bloomfield, New York.
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Long Island Home Front Radio Memories
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Radio was still king during the 1930s and 40s. It was a golden age for tuning in to shows like The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, and others.
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Long Island Home Front: Look to the Skies
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On this episode of the Radio Tower, we feature more excerpts from the Long Island Home Front oral history project. The subject is aviation and a time of frantic activity on Long Island. With companies like Grumman and Republic Aviation and airfields like Mitchel and Roosevelt Field, there was plenty for a young boy to see in the skies overhead.
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Radio Tower #22: Cindy Clifford
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Cindy Clifford never had a plan but she still found her way to an eventful career in Long Island radio, from WRCN in Riverhead to WWHB in Hampton Bays to a long stint on the WALK morning show with Mark Daniels.
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Radio Tower #21: Larry Davidson
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Life has taken Larry Davidson from a bodega in Spanish Harlem to a vineyard in Aquebogue and many places in between. Through it all, his keen mind and relentless curiousity have helped him forge a career in broadcasting as an interviewer of authors, singer songwriters, politicians, and more. He's worked on WGBB and Cablevision as well as on a number of well-received series conducted at libraries and other cultural centers around the region. His latest is a foray into podcasting with The Artful Periscope.
info_outlineWe're running a miniseries of interviews with LIRTVHS board member John Vuolo about the history and development of radios.
John is a radio collector and restoration expert, in charge of helping build and maintain the Society's collections.
Today we tackle the 1920s and the earliest commercially-available sets. How did they operate, how many survive, and how do you go about making them work again?