{"id":36079,"date":"2019-03-19T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36079"},"modified":"2019-03-19T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:18:54","slug":"website-devoted-to-the-history-of-wowo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/website-devoted-to-the-history-of-wowo\/","title":{"rendered":"Website devoted to the history of WOWO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo source: historyofwowo.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Snyder, who shares the following in reply to our previous post about a chunk of the WOWO fire escape in lucite<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thomas,<\/p>\n

Have you ever visited “www.historyofwowo.com<\/a>“–?<\/p>\n

This site was put together by Randy Meyer and has hundreds of photos from 95+ years of broadcasting. Many pictures are from me as I worked there from 1969 to 1982. The link below is to the promotional items page where there is another picture of the “World Famous WOWO Fire Escape” chunk of steel cast in lucite.<\/p>\n

These were made in 1978 after the station moved from the Gaskins Building to the Central Building. (By the way, the Central building is no longer there.)<\/p>\n

The Gaskins Building was a dismal place with no windows. The air and news people had to open the door to the fire escape to see if was sunny or raining. That is why the local temperature was from the World Famous Fire Escape. My piece of fire escape is in a box in the basement.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.historyofwowo.com\/the_rest.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks for sharing this, Dave! WOWO is such an iconic AM station with such a deep history–I’m grateful all of these photos and history are being archived and shared online.<\/p>\n

Click here to view HistoryofWOWO.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Snyder, who shares the following in reply to our previous post about a chunk of the WOWO fire escape in lucite: Thomas, Have you ever visited “www.historyofwowo.com“–? This site was put together by Randy Meyer and has hundreds of photos from 95+ years of broadcasting. Many pictures are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,56,433,3,305,288],"tags":[7675,7569,7674],"class_list":["post-36079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-dave-snyder","tag-wowo","tag-wowo-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9nV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35692,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/robert-discovers-radio-station-lucite-artifacts\/","url_meta":{"origin":36079,"position":0},"title":"Robert discovers radio station lucite artifacts","author":"Thomas","date":"January 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Robert Yowell, who writes: I walked into an awesome store today in Manhattan which specializes in vintage radios and ephemera. 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