Long ago on independence square (Hayward: sell, great, listing)

[SilverDoc]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I forgot to ask about Chutes Drive In. I dont remember them at all. According to the photo there was one in Blue Springs and one in Independence. The coupon expires in Feb 78.

Are they still around?

I know the one in Indep. isn't, and I don't think the one in Blue Springs is either.

[SilverDoc]

Anyone remember listening to this character?:

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Anyone remember listening to this character?:

He was not around (I dont think) when I listened in the 50s and 60s. He might have got started when the San Diego Chicken became nationally popular.

I wish I could confirm the WHB Nightbeat fellow who committed suicide while on the air in 1960 or 61. I remember his name but I can find nothing about it except one slight reference to a WHB suicide on a web site that required a fee to enter.

I think in 1954, WHB carried the Mutual Game of the Day. It was a daily afternoon baseball game aired by the Mutual Broadcasting Company of a different pair of teams each day. I listened most everyday during the summer of 54.

Last I heard MBS became a black broadcaster company but I have not heard anything about the company in years.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

Those photos remind me of how cold it is there {{{shiver}}}

Yup, we hit the 70s today. BRRRR!

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I forgot to ask about Chutes Drive In. I dont remember them at all. According to the photo there was one in Blue Springs and one in Independence. The coupon expires in Feb 78.

Are they still around?

They didn't last long, on account'a the food was lousy. It was a bit of a gimmick. The food was delivered via a conveyor belt and tray that ran underground to several drive-thru lanes. They had a lot of problems with spilled drinks. We tried it once due to the novelty.

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Anyone remember listening to this character?:

I was a fan of the Chickenman! I can still hear episodes in my head (at least I hope that's what those voices are!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenman_(radio_series)

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by SilverDoc

Anyone remember listening to this character?:

He's Everywhere, He's Everywhere

4 or 5 years ago I stumbled onto the great history (unbeknownst to me then) of WHB, which led me to ChickenMan. There is alot of info on the net about CM, I think it was a Chicago original and there is even a CD/DVD set available.

One of my buddies recently told me Miss Hellfinger went to Raytown but I've never been able to confirm that. Wellllllllllllllllll . . .

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

They didn't last long, on account'a the food was lousy. It was a bit of a gimmick. The food was delivered via a conveyor belt and tray that ran underground to several drive-thru lanes. They had a lot of problems with spilled drinks. We tried it once due to the novelty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenman_(radio_series)

In the mid seventies, Wichita had a restaurant that delivered your order (inside) on an O gauge train set running on tracks around the establishment.

[MRG Dallas]

[quote=WCHS'59;27193667]He was not around (I dont think) when I listened in the 50s and 60s. He might have got started when the San Diego Chicken became nationally popular.

I wish I could confirm the WHB Nightbeat fellow who committed suicide while on the air in 1960 or 61. I remember his name but I can find nothing about it except one slight reference to a WHB suicide on a web site that required a fee to enter.

I'm tellin' ya, WCHS, it was Tom Jacobson/sen. I'll bet my life on it (pun intended). Some of the old DJs may still be around (Phil Jay, perhaps? He DJ'd a reunion for us in the 1990's). They'd probably remember hearing about it around the 710 water cooler.

ChickenMan was in the mid to late 60s as I remember it on WHB. The SD Chicken was a ten-years-or-more-later creation. In 1983 when the Kings were in KC he performed at a game at Kemper, and a former Royals player knew him from minor league days (he got us the tickets). Afterwards we went to Fanny's in Westport and partied down with The Chicken. Fun nite, really nice guy with lots of good stories about his exploits around the Hemisphere (his most embarrassing moment was in Puerto Rico). Not to mention he made a ton of money from his gigs.


EDIT: Just found this: "Tom Jacobson, formerly foreign
correspondent for Mutual, joins WHB
Kansas City as news-personality and
host of Nite Beat."

This is from "BROADCASTING" May 16, 1960.

[SilverDoc]

[quote=MRG Dallas;27194197]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

He was not around (I dont think) when I listened in the 50s and 60s. He might have got started when the San Diego Chicken became nationally popular.

I wish I could confirm the WHB Nightbeat fellow who committed suicide while on the air in 1960 or 61. I remember his name but I can find nothing about it except one slight reference to a WHB suicide on a web site that required a fee to enter.

I'm tellin' ya, WCHS, it was Tom Jacobson/sen. I'll bet my life on it (pun intended). Some of the old DJs may still be around (Phil Jay, perhaps? He DJ'd a reunion for us in the 1990's). They'd probably remember hearing about it around the 710 water cooler.

ChickenMan was in the mid to late 60s as I remember it on WHB. The SD Chicken was a ten-years-or-more-later creation. In 1983 when the Kings were in KC he performed at a game at Kemper, and a former Royals player knew him from minor league days (he got us the tickets). Afterwards we went to Fanny's in Westport and partied down with The Chicken. Fun nite, really nice guy with lots of good stories about his exploits around the Hemisphere (his most embarrassing moment was in Puerto Rico). Not to mention he made a ton of money from his gigs.

You might check here: WHB - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[WCHS'59]

[quote=MRG Dallas;27194197]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I'm tellin' ya, WCHS, it was Tom Jacobson/sen. I'll bet my life on it (pun intended). Some of the old DJs may still be around (Phil Jay, perhaps? He DJ'd a reunion for us in the 1990's). They'd probably remember hearing about it around the 710 water cooler.

EDIT: Just found this: "Tom Jacobson, formerly foreign
correspondent for Mutual, joins WHB
Kansas City as news-personality and
host of Nite Beat."

This is from "BROADCASTING" May 16, 1960.

One of these days, MRG, one of us is going to find the information. I got home from freshman year in college after that May 16, 1960, date. And the suicide happened later that year or in the following year. I am really thinking 1961 for some reason.

Mutual Broadcasting System went belly up in 1999.

[MRG Dallas]

[quote=WCHS'59;27195432]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

One of these days, MRG, one of us is going to find the information. I got home from freshman year in college after that May 16, 1960, date. And the suicide happened later that year or in the following year. I am really thinking 1961 for some reason.

Mutual Broadcasting System went belly up in 1999.

It was one of those eerie nights as a kid I just remember, but not all the details. I recall the announcement, the radio voice delivering the bad news, then telling my Dad when he came home. But that it happened while on air/on break, was what I failed to recall. I take it no one replied to your email at the site you mentioned? Richard Ward Fatherly would have been a great source, he was Mr. WHB. I tried to find his old site recently to no avail. Too bad because it had all sorts of trivia and info and a five minute or so audio of WHB jingles, news, and contest announcements.