Radio Postcards from the Past
from Tom Taylor
(Posted By Steve Blodgett)

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        The awnings must have come in handy during those hot Texas Panhandle Summers for KGRS, Amarillo.  The back of this 1932 card is addressed to a longtime DXer from Concord, MA named Harold Bowers.  He apparently had to wait a while for the response:  The typed message says "This is to verify reception of our program of April 19 1932" - but the card is postmarked September 1.  My copy of a 1932 "Radio Call Book Magazine and Technical Review" lists KGRS as being at 1410 KHz at 1000 watts, owned by Gish Radio Service.
 


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        The "big book" Santa refers to certainly wasn't an Arbitron diary!  This 1926 postcard responds to a WLW, Cincinnati listener named Ermin Walter in Bucyrus, OH and is dated December 22 (just in time for Christmas).  It would be interesting to know just where "Santa Claus Land" was, back in '26, based on the clues in the photo.
 


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        This is the broadcast site of the ORIGINAL KFSG, Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple.  I believe this dates from 1938. The production code, bottom right, is "8A-H284."


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     Here's a linen postcard by Curt Teich (Chicago maker) that can be dated 1940 from the code at the bottom right (OB-H1483).  It's the FCC "Central Monitoring Station" in Grand Island, Nebraska.


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       Back in 1924, when you wrote WIP in Philadelphia, then owned by the Gimbel Brothers Dept. Store, you received this DX QSL card back in the mail, signed by none other than Richard Gimbel himself!


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