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Box 1 Folder 43: "Box 1 number 43 is a radio log from 1948, which shows 5 radio stations, the new addition being WTNB 1490 which was short-lived.…
Box 1 Folder 38: "This is box 1 folder 38 from 1947. It looks like a Birmingham News clipping which has a picture of Joe Rumore sitting in a pile of…
Box 1 Folder 35: "This is box number 1, number 35. Radio logs from February 23, April 27th, April 28th and April 29th of 1947. Which now shows five…
Box 1 Folder 26: "Next is box 1 number 26, which contains various New Age Herald clipping copies from 1945 describing radio programming of the period…
Box 1 Folder 20: "Box 1 folder 21. It is a promo card for Joe Rumore when he was on WAPI and we approximate it to be 1944. It was found probably in a…
Box 1 Folder 2: "This is box 1 number 2, dated 1938-1939 and it is an agreement between the Birmingham Broadcasting Company, which is probably WBRC…
![](https://www.thebbrm.org/files/square_thumbnails/0ae78cfd3eb0d853e7b1a069bbacb840.jpg "Perry "Tiger" Thompson with the Sterling Jubiliees, also known as the CIO Singers, 1954")
Lydia Thompson (b. Feb 3, 1940, d. Sep 20, 1996), eldest daughter of Perry “Tiger” Thompson (b. 1908, d. Apr 26, 1973), interviewed by telephone over…
Billy Cliff Evans (b. Dec 12, 1924, d. Apr 5, 2004), announcer at WJLD in the mid 1940’s. Billy shares recollections of early broadcasting from…