MORE ABOUT THE HOLST BARBER SHOP

     Tony Crandell, BHS-59, wrote, "my great uncle Henry Fibaker or Fibiker....dad's uncle.....cut hair there for years in the 50's. If I am remembering rightly, uncle Henry moved from the Crary Hotel barber shop to the Boone National Bank building, second floor I think, then to the Hotel Holst which was a three chair shop with a shoe shine stand. All three chairs were busy every time I was there. I don't know whether Henry managed the shop or just worked there. The shop was sandwiched between the Daniel Boone Tavern on the southwest corner and the hotel lobby."
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     Ozark Vern Modeland, BHS-50, wrote, "I took guitar lessons in the 1940's from some man who taught them evenings in a basement location at the Holst. Anyone else remember him? I failed, by the way. Too many strings, not enough fingers."
     Then back to our recent discussion about former KWBG employees etc. Vern wrote, "did I, in the past, add to the list that Bob Graham, who became a WHO announcer later, then on to KOLR in Springfield after we both moved this a-way, was the Program Director who hired me for one of the two stints I did on KWBG. I later returned to do the night shift for quite some time around 1952 or so with Wayne  H. Olsen of Story City as my license-holding engineer and proclaimed by he and me as sports reader since I didn't know the names like he did. And, I assisted Wayne Spangler at Perry when KWBG had a studio there. We were on remote from 2-4 in the afternoon, as I remember. He was selling more than announcing. I did that part. Spangler was also titled Program Director for a time. He came from Ames and later his younger brother followed on. Can't remember his first name. All of this was while the station was out at the school house on the gravel road to the Ledges. It looks like there were more of us who broke into or at least moved through KWBG than most stations. And, there  were, at least, four of us, Graham, Olsen, me and Ev Hickman, BHS-54, who went on to WHO by the time TV expanded staffs in the Des Moines area, circa mid to late 1950's. Why so many? We were better than most else I guess. That was, in big part, the work of the BHS teacher who moonlighted as a speech coach for KWBG. I can't remember her name either. Hey, I'm old."
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     The Kornerman says, "excuse me if I take advantage of the mention of the K-Dub studio by the tower, south on Ledges road, to espouse some memories of that location, some you've probably heard from me before. I remember (1) the time the tower was being painted and I had a lovely car with a white top. There was a slight breeze and that white top got "riddled" with black specks all over it. (2) the mouse family that always seemed to appear walking across the table when I was attempting to deliver a newscast. (3) the Sunday Rhetta Shaw program of inspiring poems, other readings and music that she insisted be done in the "great outdoors" when the weather cooperated. (4)  June Burge cooking a nice meal, fried foods and all, in the control room while hubby, Dale, did his night shift as an announcer.What an aroma! and finally (5) that infamous evening when Tom Quinlan and I teamed up for a newscast sponsored by a women's dress shop. The commercial was all about "bras half off" and, for some reason, that mention triggered extended giggling that neither of us could quickly quell. The newscast was a disaster."
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     BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Dale Baker, 75, Boone. OHS-62. Was an Iowa National Guardsman for 14 years before working 30 years for John Deere. Married Nancy Hall in 1978. After his retirement, he worked for Mordini Chevrolet in Ogden and the couple managed the Leonard Good community center in Ogden. Survivors include his wife, Nancy, a daughter, Jill Harrington, and a son, Mike Flugstad, all of Boone and two sisters including Donna Christensen of Ogden........Gladys Moore, 90, Boone. Boone area survivor is a daughter, Jeri Frank of Boone.........Faye Crabtree Latham, 88, Sun City, AZ and formerly of Des Moines. Born in Madrid. MHS-48. Married Dale Latham in 1948. A son survives........Rosemary Bertini Gibbons, 90, Madrid. Grew up in Madrid. Married Charles Gibbons Jr. in 1952. The couple lived in Madrid their entire married life.
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