Willard Waterman
Those Websters was a radio situation comedy series on CBS starring
Willard Waterman and Constance Crowder as George and Jane Webster.
The program began in New York and then moved to Chicago for a short
time before finishing its run from Hollywood.
Those Websters was heard Friday evenings from March 9, 1945 until the
series moved to Mutual on March 3, 1946 when it aired Sunday night until
August 22, 1948.
Willard as Ronald McDonald
Willard Herman Scott, Jr.
Scott is best known for his TV work as the weatherman on The Today Show
on NBC. He went into semi-retirement in 1996 and was succeeded by Al
Roker. He continues to appear twice a week on the long-running morning
show to wish centenarians a happy birthday. He is also the commercial
voice of Smucker’s jellies which sponsors the birthday tributes on the
Today Show. A younger Willard Scott is also remembered as being
the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.
The first custom concept store opened in the company’s hometown
of Fort Worth, Texas.
Radio Shack Corporation (formerly Tandy Corporation) is a franchise of
electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe,
South America and Africa. The company was started as Radio Shack in
1921 by two brothers,Theodore and Milton Deutschmann, who wanted
to provide equipment for the fans of amateur, or ham, radio.
Radio Shack was purchased by the Tandy Corporation in 1962. It was
originally a leather goods corporation, and renamed Tandy Radio Shack
& Leather. Tandy eventually divested itself of its non-electronic product
lines.
The company issued its first catalog in 1939. as it entered the high-fidelity
music market. In 1954, Radio Shack began selling its own private-label
products under the brand name Realist, but was subsequently sued and
consequently changed the brand name to Realistic.
Radio Shack was created in Boston by brothers, Theodore and
Milton Deutschmann who had emigrated from London.
The WSM transmitter building
The FM transmitter that operated at 44.7 Mhz.
On March 1, 1941 W47NV (WSM-FM) began operations in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming the first modern commercial FM radio station. It was in operation for
about ten years, until The National Life and Accident Insurance Company (NL&AI), owners of WSM, realized that few area households had FM receivers and that
its commercial potential was lacking, unlike the company’s television station, WSM-
TV (now WSMV). shut down the FM operations in 1951 and returned the license
to the FCC. The station went back on the air in the late 1950s after an upsurge
in high fidelity equipment.
A 1950’s Zenith Bakelite AM/FM radio
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – MIA on December 15, 1944)
The Swing bandleader, composer, and arranger went Missing in Action
while on plane flight when performing for U.S. troops in France during
World War II.
Miller was a passenger in plane similar to the above UC-64 Norseman
Army Captain Miller
