[BC] Here's something

[Vernon Kuehn]

> THIS CONSOLE WAS ON THE AIR AT AN FM STATION IN THE EARLY 60'S!
> And he only wants $10k for it...  for pickup only at Defiance, OH.
> but check the pictures...
> I think you can honestly say
> "They don't make 'em like THAT any more!"

Oh, what a memory!  One of my "stops" was KWAK in Stuttgart, AR starting in 1957.  Our console was a very close kin to this WE.  The station owner was an engineer and we had a building full of hand-me-down equipment stuffed into an old edge of town two story farm-house style building.  But I never worked in a place where the equipment worked in better or was better maintained.

He was "old school" and woe be to a young announcer who ever grabbed a patch cord by the cord rather than the plug itself.  (Been there, done that, got the scar to show for it!  )

We didn't have the two little side panels on ours.  A wooden frame about 3.5 inches  high and the exact size of the console footprint sat on the desk under the Western Electric.  It contained key-switches that performed the traditional [Program-Off-Audition] function for each channel.  The key switches ABOVE the pots selected the input source for that channel.

In the last year I have made contact with the two announcers who worked there when I did, and just this week I learned that the widow of the Owner/Engineer remains among the earth's population at age 90 or so.  She was very much a part of the station.  I must take the time to write to her.