KWHI RADIO OF BRENHAM TEXAS IN THE 1940S/1950S Thanks to Exalted Grand Banana Head Sam Clark DiBrell, we journey back in time to the early days of Brenhams KWHI Radio Station 1280AM, when it was located directly across the street from the Washington County Courthouse on Main Street just above what used to be the Washington County State Bank (not sure what is there now, but someone can fill us in) next to what used to be Hohlts Department Store (now The Atrium) ... [Later, beginning in 1963, I began working at KWHI and walked up those stairs many a time to learn my craft under the mentoring of Lonnie Schlottmann, Randy Reets, and Frank Krizan.] In the late 40s/early 50s, radio engineer Lonnie Schlottmann would have been doing his double-duties of keeping the radio station up to snuff and on-the-air with his electronic wizardry magic touch and running his daily radio shows such as doing the news ... Coffee Time ... Texas Polka Time ... and playing some good old country music. Only, at the time, it was not OLD country music --- it was NEW country music and being sung by the likes of the legendary Hank Williams ... Return with us now in time, back to a simpler, gentler, and more friendly Washington County as we fine-tune in on our Crosley, Zenith, Atwater-Kent, Admiral, Philco, Sears Silvertone, or one of many other radio brands popular back then ... Folk in Washington County would turn up the volume to listen to Lonnie as he gave out the time, temperature and current weather conditions, read a public service bulletin board announcement or two, then slip-cue an old 78rpm record on the over-sized felt-top turntable and made an announcer lead-in something such as, Now, here is that popular country singer from The Grand Ole Opry --- Hank Williams ... singing Jambalaya here on 1280AM, KWHI in Brenham! [CLICK ON TO HEAR WHAT LONNIE PLAYED!] YOU CAN SKIP THE AD AFTER 4 SECONDS BY CLICKING THE ARROW https://youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xnKOVPXhlnE
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:24:31 +0000
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