Re: [IRCA] AM down the road..

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just remember the words of Neil Young as you are turning the pages of your calendar...

 

"Rust never sleeps."

 

And while I'm at it...

 

"Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery."

 

Mike

Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Craig,
>
> Yes, indeed at 57 now, I find the World a bit on the rough side too.
> Bring back the old days. Well of course, that will never happen. Driving
> by KVAS Astoria where I once worked over 30 years ago, all it holds now
> is a law office. The tower & transmitter is still there in the back of
> the building, but that is about it. The studio is silent, what there is
> left of it. It is all run out of the KAST site and KVAS (Now KKEE) is
> ESPN 24/7. Gone are the days of
>  be walking into the station as Music
> Director going through the stacks of new records (long before CDs), and
> typing up the playlight on the old manual typewriter. Then going on the
> air playing the hits. I am sure the building has its ghosts too. My old
> boss, Chuck Farmer (owner/GM) passed away in the late 90s and his wife
> died a couple months ago. One company owns both AM stations in Astoria,
> New NW BCers. When I worked at KVAS, KAST was compitition. The guys on
> the air, a lot of them weren't even born when I worked at KVAS. The ones
> that were, they were young. But as you said Craig, you can bring back
> the past. Like my mother used to say "You can't go back, you can just go
> ahead" But think about it, 20-40 years away, these will be the good ol'
> days for the kids of today. They will be our age, and we will be history
> as Alan Roycroft used to say. 
>
> 73,
>
> Patrick
>
> Patrick Martin
>
> Come to Seaside Oregon for the 2006 IRCA
>  Convention! It will be held at
> the Comfort Inn on September 22-24,2006.
>
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