Bill Diehl
…radiotapes.com WALLY MCCARTHY In the fall of 1969 he began a series of commercials for Wally McCarthy’s Lindahl Olds on Highway 494 and Penn Ave. He did remote…
Continue reading →…radiotapes.com WALLY MCCARTHY In the fall of 1969 he began a series of commercials for Wally McCarthy’s Lindahl Olds on Highway 494 and Penn Ave. He did remote…
Continue reading →A national dance contest was sponsored by the American Federation of Musicans to find the best new dance band of the year. On March 16, 1959, the local contest, sponsored…
Continue reading →…as did rival WBAH, founded by the Dayton Company. The Northwest Radio Trade Association worked to revive WLAG, and found a buyer in the Washburn-Crosby Company. The station recommenced on…
Continue reading →…dance troops are elsewhere….On the Hippogriff dance floor, for example, a form of post-Woodstock freestyle predominates, and much of the night traffic consists of baby-fat-coated children of the middle class….
Continue reading →On April 25, 1958, Alan Freed’s Big Beat show rolled into Minneapolis. Tickets were $2.75. On the bill that night at the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium were 17 acts, including: Buddy…
Continue reading →…and the rest were at their antic best, cooking up contests and announcing test answers to kids. Check out airchecks and more at RadioTapes.com, where the home page features newly-discovered…
Continue reading →…a week where people could get to see him for free, not to mention seeing him on KSTP-TV’s “Dial 5” program, this may not have been the smartest move. And,…
Continue reading →…The Center Opera Company The Minnesota Opera Company The Nancy Hauser Dance Company The Childrens’ Theater Company The Deja Vu Film Society, which screened old movies and shorts …
Continue reading →…City Council Licenses Committee. Those complaints included: beer had been given away free “suggestive language” is used “conduct of the patrons” is improper the bar is “suggestive of homosexuality” more…
Continue reading →…CLUB The following account comes from several sources: contemporary newspaper accounts, research by Jeff Neuberger, and a contemporary account by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis: On February 3, 1928,…
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