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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 474


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Museum of Television & Radio
	 Hershey, Pa
	 Tape head alignment
	 Martin & Lewis
	 New-time
	 Sad news:  3M / Ampex to discontinue audio tape products
	 Old-Time Dollars
	 Buttefly McQueen
	       BBC radio

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Date: 27 Dec 95 22:43:49 EST
From: Steve Lewis <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Museum of Television & Radio
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

For those of you who asked, the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City
can be contacted as follows:

25 West 52 Street
New York, NY  10019-6101
(212) 621-6800

Hours: 
Tuesday-Sunday 12noon-6:00pm
Thursday evening open until 8:00pm
Friday evening theaters only open until 9:00pm 

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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 22:56:01 -0500
From: richrw@[removed] (Richard M. Weil)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hershey, Pa
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I'll be visiting Hershey, Pa. next week and was wondering if there are any
OTR broadcasts in the area I can tune in. I'll have my GE Superadio with
me, so if anyone pulls in long distance stations from the Hershey area, I'd
appreciate hearing about that too. And finally, I'd like to know if there
are any old radio stores, antique shows, flea markets, etc. where I might
find some old radios. It's sort of off topic, so email would be fine for
any of this. Thanks alot.

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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:01:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Kinsler  <kinsler@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tape head alignment
Message-Id: <[removed]@bobcat>

While it's important to have your tape machine in reliable working order, 
it's difficult to see why it must be up to extreme high-fidelity 
standards when one's source medium is likely to be a poorly-treated 
studio transcription disk with a frequency range of maybe 300-3000 Hz not 
including the impulse noise.  
  You can do a pretty good job of tape head alignment on a cassette
machine by using a commercial pre-recorded tape.  Just play it and adjust
the azimuth screw until you hear the sharper edges of Donny and Marie's
backup group come into focus.  Matter of fact, on a stereo tape machine
you can adjust to fairly close tolerances if you listen for the point at
which the speakers go out of phase slightly, thus changing the spatial
impression you get. 
  And, of course, you can match your machine's speed to that of another, 
perhaps more trustworthy machine by recording a telephone dial tone using 
the trustworthy machine.  Match other machines to this one by picking up 
the telephone and adjusting the speed of the Machine Under Adjustment 
until you hear no beats between phone and the [removed]
  
                        Mark Kinsler

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:24:28 -0500
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Martin & Lewis
Message-ID: <951228092428_25549809@[removed]>

  Of course Dean Martin should be considered part of OTR.  Not a BIG part
certainly, but still a part.  He and Jerry Lewis went on with their own show
on April 3, 1949.  They were doing well in clubs by then but radio audiences
didn't quite know who they were.  The show ran until 1952 with indifferent
success but got somewhat more attention toward the end because of their
movies.  One of the announcers during the run was Jimmy Wallington.
  Incidentally, Jerry Lewis is appearing in Denver in "Damn Yankees."  He
left the show for tonight's (Thursday's) performance in order to fly to
California for private memorial services for Dino Paul Crocetti, his old pal.
 They had an acrimonious breakup but mended their fences some years ago.
 Lewis is due back in the Mile High City for the Friday performance.

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 06:50:38 -0800
From: dogwind@[removed] (J N Hodges )
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New-time
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Greetings, fans of the drama!
As you probably heard, our new show, The Radio Theater Hour, will begin 
broadcasting on Jan 15 to over 300 radio stations around the country. 
The show is filled with full-cast dramatized stories and skits, and 
with 260 daily shows per year, a ton of material is needed.  So, all of 
you Radio Theatre troupes out there, send us your tapes.  We will 
include them in the programs, with compensation and recognition. Let's 
get radio back to real entertainment. Call me for all the details.
1-800-959-7107. Isn't imagination wonderful?!
Thanks,
Jan Hodges
Producer
The Radio Theater Hour

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 07:45:08 -0800
From: Platecap@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sad news:  3M / Ampex to discontinue audio tape products
Message-ID: <951228074507_21256979@[removed]>

The cover story in this weeks Radio World announced 3M's decision to
discontinue manufacturing their audio ([removed] Scotch brand) tape products for
financial reasons within 1 year.  3M estimates 5,000 people will lose their
jobs.   In the same article, it was announced Ampex had sold its audio tape
division to a group of investors.  

This announcement further reinforces my strong recommendation to collectors
to NOT start an old time radio collection on open reel tape if they are
already well established with regular cassettes.

There are some activists and club officers in old time radio who become very
irate whenever the topic comes up.

"All our members LOVE quarter-tracked reel to reel tapes, so why don't you
just leave us alone!"  When the price gets up to $50 for a blank 7" reel of
1/4" tape, don't say I didn't tell you so.

For the more veteran collectors, it is somewhat of a sad realization.
I purchased hundreds of reels of Scotch and Ampex reel tape in the
1970's-'80's.  My favorite was always Scotch (3M) #176 and 177 even though it
was more expensive than Ampex 631 / 641.  I even love the smell of a fresh
reel of Scotch recording tape.  I have thousands of shows stored on these
tapes, and it NEVER developed the squeal problems than some of the more
expensive back-coated tapes developed.

The OTHER concern is that 3M at least for me, was the sole source of products
like audio splicing tape for repairs and edits to old tape.

Well, folks, there's a year left.  Buy as much supplies as you think you'll
need!

Bob Burnham / BRC Productions / [removed] Box 2645 / Livonia, MI 48151
platecap@[removed] / platecap@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:50:01 -0600
From: lgenco@[removed] (Louis Genco)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Old-Time Dollars
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

In issue 473,  richrw@[removed] (Richard M. Weil) asked about relative
value of the dollar as used in OTR programs, -vs- that of today.

The attached summary is from =Value of a Dollar (1860-1989) -
Prices and Income in the US= edited by Scott Derks.  It uses $1 for a
reference and provides relative values for every year until 1989.
There are detailed chapters on each decade.  Here is one number per decade.

1860  [removed]
1870   .944
1880   .893
1890   .721  
1900   .756
1910   .756
1920  [removed]
1930   .970   
1940  [removed]
1950  [removed]
1960  [removed]
1970  [removed]
1980 [removed]
1989 [removed]

Extrapolating the above incomplete data, a 1940 dollar may be worth $20 -
$30 of today's dollars, so Boris Karloff's $50,000 could be worth as much as
$1,500,000 today.  Of course, inflation in 1950 "doubled" the worth of a
1940's dollar, just as inflation in 1989 almost doubled the value of a 1980
dollar.

(whew)  Now that you are all familiar with the economics of inflation, maybe
the dollar figures in OTR shows are a little more meaningful!  The players
weren't being cheapskates, the buck bought a lot more then!  Some of the
readers may remember Dodge commercials of the '40s advertising an $800 car.
  

Lou
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:15:49 -0500
From: jorite@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Buttefly McQueen
Message-Id: <v01530500ad088ea3401d@[[removed]]>

Butterfly McQueen died this month. Little mention was made of her in the
presses. From what I was told, she was killed as a result of a fire caused
by a kerosene heater. Don't know if that is true or not.

Those who know the name probably think of GWTW, but she was also Mary
Livingston's maid, Butterfly, on the JB show.

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Date: 	Thu, 28 Dec 1995 06:25:04 -0500
From: "JOHN PAUL WATMAN" <WATMANJ@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject:       BBC radio
Message-ID: <21848C514AB@[removed]>

I just received a catalogue in the mail from 'Listen-Hear', a dealer
in BBC and CBC audio and video tapes. Included are BBC recordings
of [removed] Wodehouse and Agatha Christie stories. Their mailing address
is: Listen Hear Audio Tapes
    Unit 409, 7231, 120th Street
    North Delta, [removed]
    Canada V4C - 6P5
 and their phone number is (604) 594-5387.
 
<<paul watman>>  <watmanj@[removed]> 
    

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