[IRCA] You saved the big box of memorabilia

["Radio Heritage Mail" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

December 31 2013

Hello

We hope you've had a good Christmas and have enjoyed some time with
family and friends, and even vacations in places touched by summer.

This past week, we opened up a large box of estate radio memorabilia
containing cards and letters and other items mostly from the early
1950's.... and just touching and looking at things with the names of
people and stations from over 50 years ago reminded me again of the
importance of what we do.

Many of the stations have long gone. Physically as well as the people
involved. Now, all that remains are fragments. A letter here, a card
there, a photo, a program guide, fading signs of things that were
once seen as solid.

Usually, this stuff gets dumped, burned, trashed, thrown away, but
every now and then someone thinks no, let's keep it. This was a
collection of thousands of cards and letters collected by one man
over more than half a century. It represented hours of his life and
we're so glad his family thought to send it to us for safekeeping.

It took us 3 full days to just sort it. Cataloging, scanning and
organizing new secure archive folders and albums and finding more
storage space will take many more days in the coming months. And we
have 2 more big boxes to even open yet!

We'll be using images from this collection to illustrate our new
series of Retro Radio Guides from 1953, so as well as the name of the
station, you'll take a trip back 60 years to share the colorful
letterheads, logos, photos and other memorabilia of a time fading
fast from our memories.

This is the real work that goes on behind the scenes of the website
but we've ended up $6,188 under funded for the past 9 months as at
December 31, and if you're able make a donation towards these
overhead costs, we'd sure welcome your help so we can save more
collections like this one.

Globally, you can donate at www.radioheritage.net using Visa &
Mastercard, we recognize all donations from our supporters, and can
issue tax deductible receipts for donors living in New Zealand.  

Have a safe and Happy New Year in 2014, and thanks for supporting us
on this journey so far.

Radio Heritage Foundation is a supporter funded community based
project offering free access to radio memories and memorabilia,
collecting, saving and sharing what we can to connect today's people
with yesterdays radio. We're all volunteers, no one gets paid, and we
rely on supporters to cover our fixed overhead costs like storage,
office space, power, consumables, insurance etc. We've been online at
www.radioheritage.net since 2004.

Email PW7 to be removed from this list and allow 15 working days for
a volunteer to manually remove your name from some 100 manually
maintained lists when the vacation period is over. 
PS: Your donation towards recovering our loss of $6,188 to December
31 2013 will go a long way to helping us enter 2014 more securely.
Donate safely today at www.radioheritage.net.























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