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Nome Alaska pt2
Airdate: Saturday - August 22, 1970

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Thank you, very good. This is the second show that we're going to do on Alaska. . .

Show Description

Shep has just recently returned from a trip to Alaska and spends the show speaking about Nome. He first plays a tape he made while sitting on rocks at the edge of the Bearing Sea. You first hear only the sounds of the waves hitting the shore and then Shep goes into a narration describing Nome and his trip from Juneau to Nome. Back live in the studio he reads Robert Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" On the next taped piece, Shep goes into a Nome bar and records the sounds of the bar including a drunk who gets up and plays the piano. The last piece he plays is listening to the radio while driving outside of Nome. KICY radio in Nome. Shep says that everyone should write to KICY requesting a record to be played dedicated to someone in New Jersey or Staten Island.

Comments

• This is a second show on Alaska - he says the first was last night which would have been 8/21/70. Says he returned last week from Alaska Says he was going to write a column for the Nome Nugget. KICY - Nome radio station Using an Electrovoice 635 microphone

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
•	None

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 25:24	Quantas Airline

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	No Music Used

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 02:15 ]	General Topics		Alaska
• [ 02:15 ]	General Topics		Travel
• [ 02:15 ]	Travel		Travels to Alaska
• [ 27:25 ]	General Topics		Robert W. Service

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		August 22, 1970	Nome Alaska pt2	Original Airing

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