PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION ARCHIVE
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Early Stations |Miscellaneous Photographs |
KGO Studio Building, Oakland, CA, 1924 KGO Main Studio, 1924 KGO Audio Control Room, 1924 KGO Transmitter Building and Antenna, Oakland, 1924 KGO 7,500 watt Transmitter, 1924 Another view of KGO Transmitter Room, 1924 KGO Motor Generator Room, 1924 KGO transmitter engineers pose in front of transmitter building - 1934 KGO transmitter tower collapse (1989 earthquake)
KPO's first studio with 50 watt transmitter, 1922 KPO 500-watt transmitter and control desk, 1923 KPO's 1000-watt transmitter, 1925 Another view of KPO 1000-watt transmitter KPO speech amplifier equipment, 1925 KPO antenna on the roof of Hale Brothers Department Store,
c. 1925 KPO's new studio complex (floor plan), Hale
Brothers, 1929 KPO's Studio "A," Hale Brothers Department Store, 1929 KPO's Studio "B," Hale Brothers Department Store, 1929 KPO's 5000-watt transmitter, Hale Brothers Annex, 1929 New KPO master control equipment is installed, 1929 Hugh Barrett Dobbs, KPO's morning program host, 1920s KPO children's program host "Big Brother" at the microphone "Marshall's Mavericks," featuring Charlie Marshall, 1934 Southern Harmony Four on KPO, 1934 Edna Fischer, popular KPO pianist, 1934 An Engineer Mixing Audio for a KPO Remote Program, 111 Sutter Street Ticket to "Hail and Farewell" Broadcast, When KPO Became KNBC, 1947 Staff of the Doug Pledger Show, KNBR, 1950s
KPO transmitter building, under construction, 1933 Finished view and full description of KPO's transmitter building One of two KPO towers under construction, 1933 Completed KPO/KNBC Antenna Site, 1948 Additional views of the KPO Antenna KPO 50 KW G.E. Transmitter, 1933 Detail views of KPO 50 KW Transmitter Inspecting Giant Air Capacitor in the Output Network of 50 KW Transmitter Motor Generator Room for KPO 50 KW Transmitter Cooling Pond for G.E. 50KW Transmitter Inspecting One of the 50 KW Water-Cooled Tubes KPO transmitter engineering staff mid 1930s KPO's transmitter engineering staff, 1941 Joseph Baker, KNBC Chief Engineer, 1947 KNBC-FM antenna installation at Belmont, circa 1947 KNBC's west tower is toppled to make room for new tower, 1949 Building the new KNBC tower, 1949 New KNBC Franklin antenna, 1949 Engineer Joseph Baker stands atop the new KNBC tower, 1949
West Coast Network Program Circuits, 1929 The Hunter-Dulin Building, 111 Sutter Street - NBC home from 1927-42 Floor plan of NBC studios, 111 Sutter Street (drawn from memory by Bill Andrews) View of NBC Master Control Room, 111 Sutter Street NBC Engineers Pose in the NBC Control Room, 111 Sutter Street, 1938 NBC Staff in Studio A, 111 Sutter Street, 1941 The "Announcer's Delight," NBC, San Francisco, about 1930 "Taking Inventory in the Microphone Storage Room" Meredith Willson & Orchestra in 111 Sutter Street Studio, 1934 The Cast of "One Man's Family," broadcasting from Studio
"C," 111 Sutter Street Another View of a "One Man's Family" broadcast Author Carlton E. Morse, reviewing bound scripts of "One Man's
Family," 1930s Bernice Berwin, radio actress and "Hazel
Barbour" of "One Man's Family" Wilda Wilson Church, pioneer radio drama producer, on NBC in 1930s Max Dolin, Music Director at NBC San Francisco 1926-32 Meredith Willson and Estelle Caen rehearse at NBC,
1936 Paul Carson, NBC organist, creator of the "Bridge to Dreamland" Cecil and Sally, radio entertainers at NBC San Francisco The Arion Trio B. Floyd Farr, KPO and KEEN Some early NBC announcers Don E. Gilman, NBC's Western Division Manager The First RCA 44A Ribbon Microphones are Installed at 111 Sutter Street Max Dolin conducts NBC studio orchestra, Hales Department Store annex studio, 1927 Another view of Max Dolin and the NBC studio orchestra, 111 Sutter Street Broadcast of "Carefree Carnival," Marines Memorial Theatre, 1936 Meredith Willson, Music Director of "Carefree Carnival" NBC Remote Broadcast Truck, outside California Palace of Legion of Honor, 1930s Max Dolin Broadcasting from the NBC Remote Truck, early 1930s NBC Remote Broadcast Truck, 1940s Another NBC Remote Broadcast - 1940s Schematic Diagram of the NBC Chime Machine
Architects Renderings of the Radio City Building Views of Radio City under construction Radio City, the Home of NBC/KGO/KPO, Taylor and O'Farrell Streets, 1942 Color View of Radio City, from a 1942 post card NBC Radio City as it appeared in 1999 Mosaic mural above the main entrance to Radio City Studio "A" of Radio City, program rehearsal in progress Another View of Studio "A" Main control room of Studio "A," Radio City Studio "C" of Radio City Studio "D" of Radio City Master Control Room of Radio City, 1944 Another View of Radio City Master Control Recording Room of Radio City Another View of Recording Room The Making of a Recording Sound Effects Storage Room, Radio City Engineer Checks the Final Wiring of Radio City Another Photo of Final Installation Checks Additional Views of Radio City Floor Plan, 1st floor, Radio City Floor Plan, 2nd floor, Radio City Floor Plan, 3rd floor, Radio City Floor Plan, 4th floor, Radio City Floor Plan, 5th floor, Radio City NBC Radio City, Sunset and Vine, Hollywood
Young Harrison Holliway operating his ham radio station, 6BN KFRC's first studio, in the City of Paris Department Store, 1925 Harrison Holliway, founder and manager of KFRC Harrison Holliway announcing on KFRC's "Blue Monday Jamboree," 1927 The Cast of KFRC's "Blue Monday Jamboree," 1927 The Don Lee Cadillac Building, exterior view The Don Lee Cadillac Building, showroom view Meredith Willson, KFRC's Music Director, 1929 Al Pearce of KFRC's "Happy Go Lucky Hour" Cast Photo of KFRC's "Happy Go Lucky Hour" "Haywire Mac" McClintock of KFRC's "Mac and His Gang," 1920s Merv Griffin, KFRC Singer and Staff Announcer Tommy Harris, KFRC's 14-year-old star vocalist, late 1930s
Invitation to the inaugural ceremonies of KTAB, Oakland, 1925 The main studio of KTAB, 1926 The KTAB operating room, 1926 The KTAB antenna on the roof of the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church, 1926 The staff of KTAB, 1926 Broadcasting the 9 AM "Hour of Prayer" over KTAB, 1926 KSFO and KWID Staff at Islais Creek Transmitter Site, Circa 1940 Wesley I. Dumm, President of the Associated Broadcasters, 1942 Announcer Rod Kurry on the air at KSFO, 1942 KSFO master control, 1942 KSFO transmitter building and tower, 1942 KSFO 5 KW Western Electric transmitter, 1942 KSFO newsmen, 1945 KSFO's Wally King, 1945 KSFO Studio Eleven, No. 1 Nob Hill Circle, 1945 KSFO and KPIX-TV building, 2655 Van Ness Avenue, 1952 KSFO, Fairmont Hotel, mid 1950s KSFO Transmitter Site, 2006
KRE studio in the Claremont Hotel, 1922 KRE transmitter room in the Claremont Hotel, 1922 KRE studios in the Claremont Hotel, late 1920s KRE control room in the First Congregational Church KRE studio "A" on Shattuck Ave., 1934 KRE studio "B" on Shattuck Ave., 1938 Broadcast of a Wrestling Match on KRE, 1938 KRE transmitter building, Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, 1937 Control Room in KRE's new transmitter building, 601 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, 1937 KRE studio building and tower, Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, 1950s KRE transmitter building, as it appeared in 1999
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