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Property History, Bessemer Broadcasting Company
Box 1 Folder 61: "Box 1 number 61 is a building, a property history, from Brighton and Bessemer Road, the Bessemer Broadcasting Company, which would have been WBCO. This was originally designed in ’49 and it does indicate that as of October 6, 1951…
Forniss Building
Box 1 Folder 53: "Okay this is folder number 53, pictures of the Forniss Building on 4th Avenue. It is not there now. Edwards Chevrolet uses that property for body work so that’s gone. But this picture was taken in January of ’49. The reason its in…
Clippings, WJLD Programming
Box 1 Folder 26: "Next is box 1 number 26, which contains various New Age Herald clipping copies from 1945 describing radio programming of the period including WJLD. The significance here was the 5:45 mention of "WJLD Black & Tan fantasy will feature…
Clippings, Radio Logs
Box 1 Folder 24: "This is box 1 number 24, which is a series of radio logs from 1945 microfiched from the Birmingham Library archives. and which included the first radio log listing for WJLD on March 27, 1945. Not sure of all the publications but…
Clipping, WJLD FM License
Box 1 Folder 23: "This is box 1 number 23, which is a clipping from the Birmingham News we approximate of December 8, 1945, which begins to talk about WJLD’s receiving an fm license and they will construct a facility on Red Mountain and this is the…
Clipping, WJLD Purchase Price
Box 1 Folder 21: "Box 1 folder 21 July 27,1944 a commentary alleging that the purchase price for WJLD by the Johnston family sold by J. Leslie Doss was an excessive amount of money; that the Johnston family paid more than it was worth. Again the…
Clipping, Birmingham Barons broadcast
Box 1 Folder 13: "Box number 1 folder 13 and it’s also from 1942 talking about the station considering airing the Barons baseball games. And we think that it is a Birmingham News clipping. Again from the Birmingham Public Library Archives microfiche.…
Clippings, WJLD On-Air Announcement
Box 1 Folder 12: "This is box 1 number 12, and it is from 1942. There are various clipping from the Birmingham News or the Post Herald not sure which one, of WJLD going on the air in April of 1942. The smaller clipping entitled Bessemer’s WJLD goes…
500 block, 18th Street North, Birmingham, 1940s
Box 1 Folder 5: "Box 1 number 5 is an approximation of the 500 block of 18th Street North in Birmingham from the 1940s. Obtained at the archives, the archive section of the Birmingham Public Library, which received many many pictures from the…