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Dustbin of History!

Thu, Oct 9, 2025 12:00 AM

WITCH'S TALE, HALL OF FANTASY, RARE JEAN SHEPHERD

This Wednesday overnight, October 08 into 09 from 12 to 2 am in THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, we bring Old Nancy a birthday present on THE WITCH'S TALE, another trip down THE HALL OF FANTASY, and a lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD “Selling Cheap Guitars” from the Gary Hines collection on October 10, 1962. 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 March 06, 1933 “Graveyard Mansion." Old Nancy is 103 years old today. Two brothers inherit a suspicious old house in Louisiana and meet a beautiful woman who's been dead for one hundred years! Are there vampires within the mansion? A ghost perhaps? Written, produced and performed by Alonzo Deen Cole, Marie O'Flynn, Adelaide Fitz-Allen as "Old Nancy.

THE HALL OF FANTASY from Mutual on Jan 05, 1953 #7 "Hangman's Rope.” Three dead bodies are found in a small town, all hanging high in the air. Is it the return of Jack Ketch? Produced, written & directed by Richard Thorne, with Eloise Kummer, directed by Leroy Olliger, music by Harold Turner. The program was rebroadcast on Feb 22, 1954.

A lost episode of JEAN SHEPHERD from WOR-NY on Wednesday October 10, 1962

“Selling Cheap Guitars” from the Gary Hines Collection.

Selling Cheap Guitars, full book shelves, drink muddy water, Texas Jimmy Watson, Guitar Gift, Uncle Fred on Guitar, you look like a guitar player, ask for cheap guitars


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