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Date: 4/18/2015 12:27 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 36
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Nostalgia Expo                        [ Mike Wheeler <mike05@[removed]; ]
      Jim Widner's Old-time Radio list      [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:25:47 -0500
    From: Mike Wheeler <mike05@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nostalgia Expo

    Responding to Charlie's oh, so subtle invitation, here's a rundown on
    the upcoming Nostalgia Expo:

    Nostalgia Expo 2015 will be held on May 15 & 16 at the Crowne Plaza Blue
    Ash in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Our special guests this year include: Kathy
    Garver, Cissy on TVs Family Affair; Larry Albert, who currently plays
    the lead role in Jim French Productions' Adventures of Harry Nile; and
    fan favorite and all around nice guy, Ivan Cury who was Mutual Radio's
    kid cowboy Bobby Benson back in the day.

    Don Ramlow has been feverishly putting together another action packed
    rundown of OTR recreations.  This year's offerings include: Dragnet,
    Suspense, The Fat Man, The Magnificent Montague and Our Miss Brooks.
    Don will direct both the featured guests plus a special appearance by
    his group from Kalamazoo, All Ears Theatre.

    Randy Larson's Chicago Group Players will be back again performing an
    episode of The Great Gildersleeve - Engaged to Two Women.  (Randy knows
    I'm a big Gildersleeve fan and I'm personally looking forward to their
    show.)

    American Radio Theater will make another appearance as well.  This year
    we are pleased to be working with a guest director, John Alsedek of Blue
    Hours Productions.  John has been producing new episodes of SUSPENSE for
    the last few years and will direct an original script which he co-wrote
    with Dana Perry-Hayes called "Proof in the Pudding".

    We'll have our traditional dealers room again as well.  Many of our
    loyal dealers from years past have signed up to do it again plus we have
    a few first timers booked as well.

    On the Presentations side we kick things off with our traditional Radio
    in the Movies video presentation compiled by Martin Grams.  Doug
    Hopkinson will give us the story of Jim Hawthorne whom he calls "the
    father of free form radio."  Katie and Charlie Summers will host two
    sessions of Summers Time Live, the first with Kathy Garver and the
    Second with OTR author Mel Simons.  On Saturday, Joy Jackson will have a
    conversation with Larry Albert about his career, Imagination Theatre and
    whatever else strikes their fancy. Then Mel Simons will take to the
    stage to chat with John Alsedek about his revival of Suspense and what
    goes into making new episodes of an OTR classic.

    It promises to be a fun filled two days and I fully expect it to retain
    the atmosphere of a family reunion where everybody actually likes each
    other that has made the Cincinnati convention both successful and unique
    for so many years.  Admission is still ridiculously low at $15/day and
    the hotel is offering a special $93/day room rate if you mention
    Nostalgia Expo and Oldtime Radio Convention.  (Actually, they still
    don't seem to have gotten used to the "Nostalgia Expo" part but if you
    mention the oldtime radio [removed] they'll know exactly what you mean.)

    More information can be found on our website:  [removed]

    Join us!  I promise I will do my very best to see that you have a
    splendid time.

         Mike Wheeler

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    Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:25:56 -0500
    From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jim Widner's Old-time Radio list
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    Just wanted to say thanks for this. It's always nice to have some places to
    go for streaming when I'm on the road.

    Thanks for posting.

    Bill

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