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500 block, 18th Street North, Birmingham, 1940s
Box 1 Folder 5: "Box 1 number 5 is an approximation of the 500 block of 18th Street North in Birmingham from the 1940s. Obtained at the archives, the archive section of the Birmingham Public Library, which received many many pictures from the…
Al Bell
Box 7 Folder 12: "This is folder 12, this is a picture of Al Bell from about 1976 or ‘77. He was with WATV in the late 1970s. He went when the jocks walked out of WENN in 1976 and formed WATV, Al Bell joined them. Al Bell would sit in for other full…
Al Isaac, Oral History
A flashback to the 1950's New York City days of Jocko Henderson, Birmingham born and raised Al Isaac had a special connection with his RnB and Blues listening audience at WATV 900 AM in Birmingham. His laugh, his character voices they were clearly a…
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore, Oral History
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore - (b. Nov 8, 1913, d. May 19, 2004) one of the most daring of the radio announcers of the 1950’s, Moore was a blues singer in the 1930’s and 40’s and a gospel singer, minister and radio announcer in the 50’s, in…
Audience Estimates in the Birmingham ARB Radio Market, American Research Bureau
Box 6 Folder 18: "Ok, this is folder 18, and what it is is rating sheets, one for May of 1972. Well, they’re both for May of 1972. One for Monday through Sunday and one for Saturday, for 3 to 7 on Saturday. Saturday and Sunday. One’s weekends and…
Billy Evans, Oral History
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 Bessemer radio stations. Became treasurer of the Bessemer History Center.
Bowling with WENN
Box 7 Folder 37: "We now move to folder 37. Folder 37's photo is a group of people at a bowling alley. And Kirkwood Balton is at the far right and they’re wearing WENN T-shirts. However, the positive is horizontally reversed. A magnifying glass…
Brian Ward, Oral History
Interviewed on the air at WJLD. Author, “Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South” (University Press of Florida, 2004).
Bruce Payne, Oral History
Bruce Payne (b. 1930, d. October 6, 2005) Birmingham Broadcaster from the early 1950's. Born in Jackson, MS and began his broadcasting career briefly at WVIM Vicksburg and then moved to Bessemer at WBCO. He made the transition to early WENN Radio in…
Building Description, WENN
Box 4 Folder 10: "Folder number 10, folder number 10 is a description of… this would be a description of the lot that WENN AM was at. The building was completed and occupied in January of 1961; this is a document from the… well the document goes back…