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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 72
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  William Pfeiffer                      [ <jiminks@[removed]; ]
  Thank you all                         [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:52:00 -0500
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Subject:  William Pfeiffer
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 I have read several tributes to the originator of this group, but nobody
mentioned his name. It was William (Bill) Pfeiffer. He was a good, amiable,
knowledgeable man who had a great love for radio and for those of us in the
hobby. We have Bill and Charlie, who saved this for us, to thank for this
group. I hope it continues for years.

-Jim

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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:52:17 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Thank you all
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In keeping with the recent posts, I can't really remember when I first
joined the Digest.  I think it was some time in the first half of the
1990s.  I know it was after I had moved to my present condo in 1989.  A
friend of mine, knowing of my interest in otr (he had, among other
things, been a guest at the Jack Benny party that I threw when I turned
39), told me about it, and I signed up immediately.

I first got into otr when it wasn't otr, just radio.  I remember, when I
was not yet 3 years old, being at my grandparents' home in Dorchester,
in a darkened livingroom, where the only light in the room was from the
dial of the large console radio, which towered over me.  I knew they
were listening to someone called Jack Benny, and I remember the Lucky
Strike cigarette commercials.  Both my parents and most of the other
adults around me smoked, and I knew what a cigarette was.  I remember
the sound of the tobacco auctioneers, though I didn't know what they were.

I remember that when I was in bed, my parents, in their bedroom, turned
on the radio there to listen to "The FBI in Peace and War." Well, I
called it "the FBI in Peasamore."  I had no idea what it was.

A few years later, we got a TV and didn't listen to radio as much, but
when I was sick and home from school, my mother would bring a radio into
my room, always left on the same station, WNAC in Boston, and I heard
every program all day, including Jack Bailey's "Queen for a Day," which
I saw on television a few years later.  I also remember hearing "The
Cisco Kid" and "Mark Trail" on radio.

By 4th grade, the radio that was put in my room when I was sick had
stayed there, and I listened more to radio, though to my disappointment,
network radio seemed to be disappearing.  I remember discovering the
radio versions of the Lone Ranger, Howdy Doody, Space Patrol, and You
Bet Your Life, all of which I had seen first on television.  I also
remember listening to X Minus One, but I think I wasn't quite ready for
that kind of science fiction yet.

and one day, while my mother was reading the newspaper, she said that
Sunday was Jack Benny's birthday.  He was to be 61, but he said he was
39.  I mentioned that in school, and the teacher said that he always
claimed to be 39.  I wondered whether his show would be about his
birthday, so I looked in the newspaper to see what time and station he
was on (somehow I already knew he was on Sunday) and listened.  And it
was about his birthday and was very funny.  I listened to Jack Benny on
radio for years after that, as his radio show went into reruns.

I got into otr as otr in the early 1970s, when I had my first cassette
tape recorder and at some point discovered that there were people
offering recordings of otr on tape.  One of the first things I got were
some episodes of Jack Benny and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, which I had
seen on TV, but didn't know about the radio version.

When I bought my condo, as my mother was closing up the house, I got the
large wood-cabinet radio-phonograph that used to be in our livingroom
and is now in my livingroom.  The phonograph part no longer works (and
it only played 78 rpm records anyway), but the radio works, and I have a
hookup to play otr shows from my livingroom stereo through it.

Here on the otr Digest, I've had a lot of interesting interactions with
various people, some off-list.  I became friends with Laura Lee, later
Laura Leff, and now Laura Leibowitz, head of the International Jack
Benny Fan Club.  I'm disappointed that the Digest has been less active
of late, but I hope it continues, at least for as long as I do.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
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