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Tom in TN

Tom in TN

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Southern Middle Tennessee
Germ,

I grew up in the Kent/Ravenna area - graduated from Crestwood High School in Mantua, Ohio in 1962. I joined the Navy while I was still in school and left within two weeks after graduation. I never really moved back. Lived in Mentor when I got out of the Navy and then starting living like a gypsy all over the country.

WHLO was THE radio station for kids in my school. Did you ever hear the "Akron/Canton Home Town" song that was put out by them? I won a couple of contests on WHLO when I was in school providing advertising slogans to them.

Good times.

Tom in TN
 
Yep i remembered that station , you could listen to it in STEREO from two Farmall 450 Diesels while we worked ground. One night late my buddy and i were plowing at around 2 in the morning and we see this car go down the road real slow and turnj around and pull up at the end of the field and here comes a county mounty walking into the field and i stop the tractor and turn the radio down and get off to see what he wants . He begins to tell me that for the past half hour he has been trying to figure where these loud radio's were coming from . Seams that the noise was travling down the valley and people could hear us several miles away over the noise of two 450's with out mufflers . He told us that he did not mind us farming into the wee hours of the morning but please keep the radios turn down to a low roar.
 
Listening to two radios is interesting. We had the same programming on two stations but one had a 1/2 second delay. One of us on the job liked the announcer and local color on one station, and the other guy liked the other one from farther toward his home. It was nasty. Your comments reminded me of two Farmall Ms plowing in the same field. from home the beat between the two as one got into the yellow clay was music enough. Welcome back, you are refreshing to hear from. Jim
 
Do you remeber John O'Day-he was one of the hot jocks on that station. I grew up in Green in southern Summit County and we ALWAYS listened to WHLO.
Until sunset when they cut the power back. Those old AM stations did some unusual stuff back before FM radio.
I don't know about you,but we would switch to CKLW from Windsor,Ontario when they cut their power back. That was the first station I heard the Beatles on.

Thanks for the blast from the past.
 
I briefly dated a gal from Mantua that went to Crestwood in the early 80's. My brother in law is from Kent and my wife from Brimfield. It's a small world.

I doubt you would recognize that area now. I vaguely remember the song.
 
I don't remember getting CKLW, but we could get KDKA out of Pittsburg. This would have been in the early 70's.
 
"Akron, Canton, that's where I'll stay. . ."

I remember a ditty that had those words in it, plus more of course.

Don't know the station call letters - had relatives that lived in the Medina area, and I visited them in the summers.

Paul
 
In the 60's if we could pick up WLS out of Chicago at night it made our weekend. My am only radio in my 56 Chevy would come through every now and then. Good times.
 
I've been to the Ravenna arsenal, that is a HUGE place. I would've liked to have seen it during WWII when it was running full bore.
 
used to listen to WHLO every school morning while eating breakfest. My mother has a 45 copy of the Akron/Canton song you speak of.

We used to make hay around the WHLO radio towers off of Shepler Church RD on the south side of Canton.
 
KOMA out of Oklahoma City was about the only night station we could pick up that was worth listening to. It was also about the best one could ask for--at least for teens in the 1960s.

FM really wasn't around yet.

BTW, I still have my 5 transistor Emerson radio which I first listened to it on. Still works too.
For some odd reason the box it came in was kept by my parents and now by me. Think I got the radio in 1957. It was the only radio we had that worked when the electricity went off as he had none in vehicles. Sort of our outside communication with the world as telephone lines (crank system) often went down when power lines did.
 
Miss the old days when I would get home from working 2nd shift. Would drive like hell to get home before the bar closed. A couple of six packs and my buddies would cruise around listening to KOMA--great station. Sometimes if you could find the right spot to stop you could listen to mystery theater on (I think) KAAY-Little rock.
 
Hey Indyguy. Where abouts did you live? I was raised on a farm right there in Richville. Still around the area only about 3mi. south of Navarre. Yes WHLO was the station growing up.
 
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