Saturday, March 8, 2014

Some Lake Robbins Info

     Vern Modeland has provided some additional Lake Robbins talk. He wrote, "KWBG broadcast "Live from Lake Robbins" one night back around 1951 or so. Who's band might you ask?" National recording and broadcast star Orrin Tucker with his lead singer, "Wee" Bonnie Baker singing, "Oh Johnny" and other favorites. And the band, its singer and Tucker himself couldn't have been nicer. How KWBG Program Director Wayne Spangler talked him into letting us pull off that low-tech but pretty good sounding dance remote (KWBG's first, I think) we will chalk up to being young and lucky. It was a rainy Friday or Saturday night, I got a call at the restaurant many of us populated on weekends, the Bon Appetite. Spangler had guessed I'd be there with my date and was right. We drove to the studios, then out to the transmitter location, loaded up the stuff and motored on down. Lake Robbins was east of Perry, as I recall. But it was popular with the Post War set and was crammed at night. Beverly (Myers) got Tucker's autograph, first of a string of big band autographs she became pretty brave at getting through our years together. When it takes trucks loaded with equipment to do a remote program in this high-tech day, the equipment it took to record that impromptu half-hour was a Magnovox reel-to-reel tape recorder needing two suitcases and one microphone. Wayne Spanger was from Ames, by the way."
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     Other than Vern, I guess you Korner viewers wanted nothing more this time than a bunch of obituaries, way too many.
Boone Area Deaths: Jack Albert, 64. Moved to Boone in 1973. Worked for Sandler-Built Homes and operated an alignment and repair center. Boone survivor is his wife, Barb............Edward Johnson, 60. Ames, formerly of Boone.BHS-73. Coached Little League and AAU teams in Boone and Ames over 25 years. Boone area survivors include his wife, Linda, of Ames and his mother Geraldine Johnson of Boone.
     Boone area sisters passed away two days apart. Marcella Lestina, 77, rural Ogden and fomerly of Boone. BHS-55. Homemaker and manager of the Boone Salvation Army Thrift Store. Boone area survivors are her husband Art of Ogden, son Todd of Stratford and sisters Nancy Grady and Cheryl Miller of Boone.
     Two days later, Marcella's sister, Nancy Grady, passed away. 73, Born in Boone. Was a Pharmacy Tech for several area pharmacies. Boone area survivors include her husband, Jerry, and a daughter Diana Vincent of Huxley.
     Bob McCormick, BHS-47, has been a great Korner supporter from day one even though he lived way out east, many miles from Boonetown. After a long absence, he called the Kornerman several weeks ago just wondering how I was getting along. He also said he had lost his contact with the Korner and needed to know the website.
     Then, again, an absence and I was concerned about him. Word just came yesterday from his classmate, Vern Moorman, via John Bowes, one of Bob's relatives, that he, Bob, had passed away.
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