The Western Carolina Classic Radio Club will meet Monday, June 18 at 2 p.m. on the Isothermal Community College Polk campus.
Bill Drake, a radio personality on 103.3 FM who is known as Spartanburg’s “goodwill ambassador,” will join with Gary Poole, “the man with many voices,” to present live stand-up comedy as performed in the early years of radio. Drake and Poole together make up the Merriment Players.
Professor Hoyt will keep everyone guessing with his trivia quiz.
WCCR will present a TV/radio video of “Martin Kane, Private Eye.” “Martin Kane” was unusual, because it was first conceived for television but also ran on radio at the same time. The program broadcast from August 1949 to December 1952 and is best remembered for the “Happy McMann’s Tobacco Shop” selling Model pipe tobacco.
– article submitted by Bob Meeske