Edition #1375 |
Talent: HARRY
HARRISON
Station: WMCA New York
Date: November 14, 1961
Time: 23:18
(unscoped)
12:51 (scoped)
We never heard Harry Harrison "bomb" on the air, but he and the other WMCA Good Guys (and even talk show host Barry Gray) each did a show from a bomb shelter.
Only three months after the Berlin Wall went up - and with the Cold War heating up - the WMCA jocks all did a shift at a bomb shelter in Times Square.
The idea - one presumes - was to promote the fallout shelters, which were supposed to provide protection in case of a nuclear attack. They were all the rage in the early '60s but interest faded by mid-decade. Their popularity surged in the late '90s with Y2K fears and you can still get them. One high-tech bunker we found in Kansas is priced at $30 million!
Enjoy Harry Harrison on WMCA (UNSCOPED) here. 
Enjoy Harry Harrison on WMCA (SCOPED) here.
(The Rob Frankel Collection)
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