This Wednesday overnight, Sept 10 into 11 from 12 to 2 am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, a visit to Old Nancy on THE WITCH'S TALE, another visit to THE HALL OF FANTASY, and a lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD “The Perfect Drive-in” from the Hines collection Sept 11, 1963. Tune in to WBAI-NY 99.5 FM and on the stream at wbai.org.

THE WITCH'S TALE from WOR, Newark, New Jersey, Air Features Syndicate syndication and distributed by "All-Star Distributors" on June 26, 1933 #105 "House of the Bridegroom." Old Nancy is 122 years old today (113 in part 2!). The story of a house haunted by a jilted lover. The story was heard on the Witch's Tale on June 26, 1933, repeated on Nov 02 & Nov 30, 1937. This recording could be from any of these dates. Written, produced and performed by Alonzo Deen Cole.

THE HALL OF FANTASY from KALL, Salt Lake City origination, via The InterMountain Network on Sunday 8:30pm April 24, 1947 #24 "Markheim." A stock exchange gambler commits murder on Christmas eve, and receives a strange visitor. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Robert Olsen, starring Carl Grayson as Markheim, Richard Harcourt as the narrator, Beth Caulder as Angela, Richard Thorne as Angler (also producer & director), music by Earl Donaldson, engineer Nefi Sorenson, announcer Mel Wyman.

A lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from WOR-FM on Wednesday Sept 11, 1963
“The Perfect Drive-In” from the Hines Collection.

Shep took a trip to the Mid-West over the weekend
Dream Date
Miss America 1964
How much of actual America is ever reflected in anything we ever do that is called art.
A close friend of Shep's buys a drive-in restaurant. This was built by a guy who searched out the best of everything, from salt to toothpicks to hot dogs, to the gravel in the driveway. On the first day there was such havoc he couldn't stand the pressure and closed it up on day one.

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