Warren Boggess’ name is the “other” name associated with traffic reporting at “The World’s Greatest Radio Station” KSFO, after fellow BARHOF member Hap Harper (2008).
Reporting on the Bay Area’s congested freeways was a fairly easy task for this aviator. Before his Bay Area radio years, Warren served as a Captain in the US Army Air Corps during WWII, flying 45 combat missions. After the war, he graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Public Administration. In 1950, Warren founded Pacific States Aviation at Concord’s Buchanan Field.
Warren served as Mayor of Concord from 1968 through 1970 and then won election to the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors. After ending his aviation and broadcasting careers, Warren played an active role in the Republican Party of California. He was named by Governor Ronald Reagan to a committee establishing noise standards for California airports and served as chairman of the nine-county regional airport study committee of the Association of Bay Area Governments. He died in 1988 at the age of 71.