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Last Summary Update: 11-13-2024

Refinery Explosion
Airdate: Thursday - April 19, 1962

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

a passenger on a swan seat bus in Wales. . .

Show Description

Shep reads article about man finding the hand of a mummy on a bus and then expands on it. Walking along 42nd street in the dark of the moon - inside of each of us there is a peeping Tom He tells about, as a kid, how he lived in a steel town and was a mailboy at a mill. He describes cleaning out the open hearth furnaces. As a kid one day his family was driving past a refinery when all of a sudden in the distance one of the stills blew up. The river began to burn. Walking throught the streets of Ibadan Nigerial

[ Courtesy: Gary Hines - 11-13-2024 ]   
  Refinery Explosion, guy finds mummy hand on bus, x-ray vision toy, Mill-cleaning the open hearth, Refinery Explosion Kid Story,, The Night the Still Blew Up.      
  

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
•		Gripping Episode

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 11:26	Speaking of 2500 year old mummified hands, this is WOR AM and FM New Yorkee . . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 11:34	Alcoa Aluminum
• 15:05	Movie Promotion	Counterfeit Trader - William Holden

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 01:11	Gesang Der Junglinge / Song Of The Youths
• 11:13	Tiger Rag
• 17:29	Bye Bye Blues
• 39:00	Banjorama

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 15:32	Al

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Rating

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	Travel	March 1962	Trip To Nigeria
•	Plots / Story Lines		Steel Mill
•	General Topics		Poetry

Record: 3247 / ID: 19620419W3247

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	April 19, 1962 Recno: 3247	Refinery Explosion	Original Airing

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19620419W3247	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:	12-30-2007	Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	11-13-2024	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	Yes
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	Yes
Description up to date:	Yes

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	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

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Gary Hines

Running Time: 42:48

Inventory Name: 1962 04 19_W3247_097_orig Refinery Explosion.mp3
Source filename: 62-04-19_orig Refinery Explosion.mp3
Source description: 4-19-62 Refinery Explosion, guy finds mummy hand on bus, x-ray vision toy, Mill-cleaning the open hearth, Refinery Explosion Kid Story,, The Night the Still Blew Up.
Station: WOR

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Gary Hines

Running Time: 44:41

Inventory Name: 1962 04 19_W3247_097_mod Refinery Explosion.mp3
Source filename: 62-04-19_mod Refinery Explosion.mp3
Station: WOR

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975