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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1925: Josiah Zuro conducts Faust in English from Ebbets Field, with Judson House as Faust, Henri Scotti as Mephistopheles, William Tucker as Valentine, August Werner as Wagner, Bianca Saroya as Marguerite, Helena Lavin as Seibel and Lulu Root as Martha.
1954: Harris J. Klein of the New York City Transit Authority discusses the 15-cent fare, the Second Avenue subway and the closing of the Third Avenue El on Campus Press Conference with host Gabe Pressman.
1977: Gerard Wolfe, author of New York: a Guide to the Metropolis, talks with Walter James Miller on The Reader's Almanac.
2003: Dean Olsher goes digging around in strange places for insight, talent, and humor. Anthropologist Sherry Ortner searches for the Class of ’58, Weequahic High, Newark, NJ. Karen Michel goes back to Alaska to find out why she lost her husband to gold fever. All this and more on this edition of The Next Big Thing.
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Veteran broadcaster Steve Post on the air at WNYC in 1988. Steve passed away on Sunday. He was a classic: Astute, cranky, brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, self-deprecating, entertaining, and insightful and all from behind the microphone. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/WNYC Archive Collections)
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
Post on Morning Music, May 22, 1996
"When I first came to work here I was appalled. I had come to work after spending many years at one of the oldest, ill-equipped radio stations. When I came here, I had never seen anything like it. It didn’t even look like a radio station. It looked like a boiler room of a cruise ship or something. And literally, things were so old that the microphone was attached to a steel pole that was attached to the ceiling from the days when announcers used to wear tuxedos and cupped their ears and there was no ability to use earphones. The very basics, of what we think about, for those of us who work in radio, were non-existent. Of course it was under Mary [Perot Nichols] when she came back, that the new studios were built and opened.â€
Source: From a rare copy of Morning Music that generally wasn't saved since its content, outside of Post, was composed of commercially recorded music. This particular program was Post's tribute to former Station Director Mary Perot Nichols on her passing.
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