Re: [IRCA] Just another day?

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I always associate this day with Freddy Martin's recording of "Tonight We
> Love," because it was on the car radio when my family had driven to the
> Oregon Coast. Then we heard the news bulletins. I was 6 years old.
>
> I suppose this would be on topic if I could remember the station we were
> listening to ... probably KGW-620, since there wasn't much radio north of
> Marshfield (now Coos Bay) or south of Astoria on the coast.
>

Did they have car radios in 1941?  In those pre-transistor days, the radio
must have taken up half the dashboard and the tubes would have kept the
car warm in winter.

BTW, Canada had been involved in WWII for more than two years before Pearl
Harbor.


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON
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