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- Description:
- View of the same block as 2015-06-003.V6.075 but taken four year's later. Lansing Broadcasting Co. is still present in a building holding several businesses in addition to their WILS-AM radio station: Verra-Kleen Cleaners, and Baucom Barber; all used 407 as their address. Next, Vandervoort Marine Sales replaced the Dura-Chrome Dinette Co. at 417. Michigan Liquor Control Commission Retail and Wholesale Store remained at 417. A&P grocery completed the block at 425 but had received a new exterior. City Planning Division staff annotated the photo.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
- Description:
- A color slide of four WJIM TV channel 6 vehicles and unidentified staff. The call letters changed to WLNS in 1984.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Country and Western band the "Rhythm Wranglers" at local radio station W.G.R.D. in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1953-09-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Exterior view of building housing radio stations WWJ and Southfield WJOI
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1983-12-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Marian Anderson at local radio station W.G.R.D. in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Marian Anderson was a famous singer and was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1939, she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd estimated at 75,000. She was also a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Date Created:
- 1948-04-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Exterior view of local radio station W.G.R.D. The station was located at 35 Lafayette Ave. NE in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1951-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Radio station WOOD originated a popular feature called Sambo and Abie. The two radio actors are pictured in the studio, seated by a table, with a tall radio microphone standing between them behind the table. “Abie” is dressed in a suit and tie and wears a dark too-large fedora that comes down over his ears. “Sambo” is in black face, with dark gloves, and is wearing a doorman's uniform and cap. Behind the men is a door with a glass panel that reads “219, Radio Station WOOD.” Article and photo in the Grand Rapids Herald, 3/9/1930, p.14.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The Country and Western band the "Grand River Valley Boys" at local radio station W.F.U.R. of the Furniture City Broadcasting Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1948-06-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Hugh Hart, known as “Uncle Jerry” entertaining the kiddies over Wash. Taken when the studio was in Baxter’s Laundry. December 19, 1929. The subject is a dark-haired, smiling man of about 40 years seated at a table on which stands a large microphone that resembles the old-fashioned rotary dial of a telephone. The man is wearing a checkered suit jacket with matching vest, white shirt, and a striped necktie. There are some control knobs inset into the table near his right elbow, which is leaning on the table. In his left hand he holds some papers.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Following his dedication of the radio station WJEF, John E. Fetzer addresses the staff of both WJEF and its sister radio station WKZO to compliment them on their hard work in creating a second radio station during wartime. Fetzer takes care to single out employee Carl Lee and praise his efforts in handling the construction and challenges of a new station. Fetzer also introduces his staff to members of the Office of Censorship, where he is serving in Washington.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-02-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
