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Box 2 Folder 32: "Folder 32 has a picture of King Porter during his time on the air at WJLD. He's displaying "Welcome Home" by T-Bone Walker, which…
Box 2 Folder 33: "Now this one, which is number 33, is a gem. It is the actual 1952 Rhythm and Blues Jazz Scrapbook edited by Thurston Moore.…
Box 2 Folder 34: "Various WJLD/WJLN objects from 1952 were donated to WJLD, and then to the BBRM, back in 2015/16 by Candy West, grand daughter of…
Tommy Cox, a WJLD listener interviewed about Bob Umbach, WJLD Radio Announcer and originator of the Atomic Boogie Hour in 1946. Tommy began listening…
Box 2 Folder 35: "This folder contains three different photos of Andrew "Sugar Daddy" Dawkins from his stint at WBCO. They were donated by Andrew at…
Box 2 Folder 36: "And head back into folder 36, which is a nine page technical manual including contents, tables and drawings, put out on October 20, …
Box 2 Folder 37: "Moving right along to number 37. Folder 37 is something that Bruce Payne sent us, which was a…July 15, 1952 release reflecting on…
Box 2 Folder 38: "Ok, this is folder 38 and we’re looking at a large Xerox of the front page of the Birmingham Weekly Review, a black-owned newspaper…
Box 2 Folder 39: "This is folder 39, which is a promo card from Reverend W.E. Burke who was a pastor at the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Birmingham and…
Box 2 Folder 40: "We are at folder 40. There are several copies of an original picture taken inside the WBCO studios in downtown Bessemer, which shows…