Meredith Willson & Estelle Caen 1936 Meredith Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa, in 1902. He studied piano and flute at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, and by age 19 had become a […]
As a boy, before he started station KFRC, Harrison Holliway displayed an early interest in radio. Here he is shown operating his amateur radio station, 6BN. At a time when most amateurs operated spark transmitters […]
“Carefree Carnival” was a popular program of western music and skits which was heard on the Pacific Coast Network beginning in 1934. The program was hosted by western singer Charlie Marshall, and originated from the […]
In addition to managing KFRC, Harrison Holliway was the announcer/emcee of the station’s popular variety show, “Blue Monday Jamboree,” which was performed each Monday evening in the station’s studio in the Don Lee Cadillac building. […]
Al Pearce had always been a performer, but his guitar and songs had been strictly a hobby until the mid 1920s, when his real estate business suddenly failed. A KFRC executive saw Al and his […]
Francis McCarty: Early San Francisco Radio Experimenter By John F. Schneider Experiments in radio voice transmission began in San Francisco as early as the discovery of the art itself. History tells us that Lee DeForest demonstrated […]
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