Anniversary - Posts - Page 14

”Stories start in many different ways…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 6th 2015

Habitual old-time radio listeners have no difficulty identifying their favorite actors and actresses; while some radio thes

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 16th 2015

This past Monday, January 14th, marked the 107th birthday of actor William Bendix…who graced the silver screen during the 1

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 1st 2015

The August 11, 1941 broadcast of CBS’ Forecast marked the first time the character of Hopalong Cassidy was offered up to ra

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 30th 2014

For Nick and Nora Charles, the famed imbibing couple created by Dashiell Hammett in the 1934 novel The Thin Man, sleuthing

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 10th 2014

During his stint at San Francisco’s KGO in the mid-1940s, John Randolph “Jack” Webb earned his initial radio bona fides as

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 27th 2014

By the beginning of the 1950s, radio crime drama began to develop a new breed of program that, in the words of old-time rad