The stations we listened to back then we’re WBZ, WRKO, WMEX, WCOP, WCAS, WNTN, WILD, WXKS and a few others. “Listening to west coast Red Sox games and hearing that pop of the bat.

The gym teacher let me climb up to the top of the bleachers to get a signal and we all listened to my radio.” I was on my way to gym when the hall monitor told us JFK was shot. I had my transistor radio hidden in my snap ring notebook. “Nov 22, 1963, freshman year of high school. She hated how I’d fall asleep with the earbud and now he made it possible every night! The Great 68 WRKO!” My Grandfather noticed and gave me a crystal set so it got AM without batteries! My mom was so mad. My mom hated it ‘cause I’d sleep with the ear bud and kill the battery. 1967 August 5! I had one, but those 9V batteries. Then your mom would hear it BOOM it’s gone.” “Trying to keep it low so the other kids wouldn’t hear it. “I remember walking around with friends and we would all have our radios up to our ears listening to the same station.” If I learned my school subjects as well as I memorized my favorite songs, I would have gotten all A’s. I listened for hours after we went to bed. We took our transistor radios to bed with us even though we weren’t supposed to. My sister’s favorite song was Downtown and mine was Mrs. We listened to Arnie Woo Woo Ginsburg on WMEX.

Me, Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg and Bill Rossi.

Transistor radios at radio shack