R.I.P.

Evil died today.

Fantastic Friday Trivia!

Woohoo! It's Friday baby! We made it.

So...I spent most of the night last night immersed in old cassette tapes. I am uploading and downloading and sideloading and to tell you the truth, it has been somewhat painful. I have a full hour of me on WLKL which is one of the most frightening things you will ever hear. Yes, I will post it here, but I don't recommend any of you listen to it. I can't even say Creedence as in Creedence Clearwater Revival. I keep saying Cleedance. It's pitiful really.

Anyway, while listening to the WLKL air check I came across this gem of a station promo from one of our Lake Land radio staffers that we all know and love. Some of you don't know him but you would love him if you did know him. I promise.

So...give me your best guess on who this is.

Have a FANTASTIC weekend! Thanks for checking in and all the positive feedback you have been giving. I am having a blast digging up the past!

WLS Aircheck Part 4 - 6

Here's the rest of the WLS air check featuring John Landecker. Listen to the beauty of amplitude modulation at it's best. Listen for the faint crosstalk from some distant station...the screeches and haunting high pitches. Forget HD....forget everything you know. This was real radio people.

WLS Part 4

WLS Part 5

WLS Part 6

No coincidence that his initials are JRL. Spooky.

Boyz in da Hood

I found this picture today on the Journal Gazette website. I don't know who those kids are playing on the practice field goalpost. I do know a little about what's behind them though. It's only the best neighborhood ever for a kid to grow up.

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My family and I moved to Mattoon when I was in the third grade in 1977. I'm not sure how many houses they looked at but somehow we wound up landing at 2508 Essex Avenue. My first day of school was in Mrs. McRobert's 3rd grade class at the now empty lot formerly known as Columbian School. Of course, Columbian was the greatest grade school in Mattoon. That goes without saying. Right?

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Back to 'da hood for a moment. Essex and Dakota are the two streets that run parallel behind the Mattoon High School practice fields. This neighborhood was PACKED with adventure just waiting to happen. It was also a training ground for future athletes on the diamond, gridiron and hardwood. The line-up included my brother and I, Jeff Owens, Tony Simmonds, Johnny Shepley, Kenny Gagnon, the Fedregon brothers and the Gryzlaks. We would choose up sides and "let the games begin"!

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The white house on the right (pictured above) is 2505 Dakota Ave. I know this because my Grandma moved there shortly after we moved here. I was a little worried about her moving there because it was an MHS "building trades" house. This meant for the most part that pot smoking teenagers constructed it. Luckily, it turned out to be a pretty good house.

The brown house to the left of it was occupied first by Steve Simmonds (Tony's Dad) who installed two basketball hoops on either side of his driveway. I can not begin to tell you how many hours that we, the neighborhood kids, spent playing full court hoops at Tony's house. One goal was shorter than the other so you would switch sides half way. Later, Meredith Spitz Shockley and her family moved in and became a great part of the neighborhood.

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Our house on Essex Ave. (directly behind the white house above) had two empty lots next to it which we owned. They were the perfect venue for neighborhood football games (other than the two pumping oil wells which you had to dodge). I also worked on my golf game mowing a green into one of the empty lots allowing a short wedge shot. It also was an excellent baseball field where John and I spent hundreds of hours hitting ground balls and pitching to one another and playing "500".

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Girls in 'da hood included Linda Burns, Melody Helton, Rachel Carter, Erica Summers, Julie Owens, Kristy Shepley and Angie Haddock. Once in a while we would see guys from close neighboring 'hoods as well like the Burrell brothers or Chris Considine from Walnut Ave., Guy Taylor from out past 33rd street or the Stremmings from 23rd st. We had the high school football field, the baseball diamonds and the tennis courts all at our disposal.

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The only drawback was having to listen to the marching band practice all summer. I remember J.O. yelling at them to be quiet and singing/screaming "COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW" at them.

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Like I said. It was a great place to grow up.

I'm glad I saw this picture today.

First Air Check....let's see if this works!

This should be a link to my odeo site that will host the series of air checks that I am extracting from cassette to digital. I have checks from WLBH, WLKL, WCBH, WZEZ (I did mid-days in Kentucky), and a few current voice over projects as well. I am digging through mounds of old cassettes and may even have a few air checks featuring some of you (found J.O. doing my son Dylan's "baby report" on WMCI Oct 10, 1989).

This first one is a two-part check from John "Records" Landecker from WLS in Chicago. This check is from 1986 or 87 when Landecker returned to WLS after working at cross town classic rocker WCKG. I had heard the promo's on AM89 that Landecker was returning and had three cassettes to record most of his first show. John Landecker was so creative and funny! He starts out walking from WCKG studios to the Stone Container building (high atop the downtown Burger King) interviewing people along the way asking if they have ever heard of him. Hilarious! Like I said...it's in two parts.

Part One

Part Two

THANKS and if you have any mp3 aircheck files you would like to have posted, send them to me at pcrutcher@lander.edu

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Note from Paul...

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I have added a third track which is probably the best one of the three. It contains John's first break plus a Fred Winston promo, an Animal Stories clip and John doing a live commercial. It's a little static filled but that's the way we rolled then.

WLS PART THREE

Villa Pizza

It's 1986.

A simple knock on the back door.

There stands a dark haired man holding a small flat white box with a blue coupon stapled to it.

The aroma is intoxicating.

Villa pizza...the perfect blend of cheese, sauce and toppings and crust perfection.

I save my coupons and hide them under the two defunct turn-tables in the FM studio.

Villa Pizza at WLBH is a great memory.

I wouldn't mind having one tonight.

Yes indeed.

Two WLBH Alum's and a Trojan

I look like a deer caught in the headlights, but wanted to share this picture of two former Greenwave and WLBH employees and this chick from Charleston, Il that hasn't given me the boot yet (after 19 years). Larry was kind enough to come over from Atlanta and speak to some of our students at the University where I work here in South Carolina. He did an excellent job and really inspired the kids. I have received so many positive comments since he was here. He is a good friend to Robin and I and I count it a priviledge to call him such.

I have another picture of he and I in my kitchen right after my dog broke wind. It's pretty funny. I need to find it and share it sometime soon.

BTW...what do you call a lady trojan? A diaphragm. (she loves it when I tell that one)

NOT GOOD COUNTRY!

Answer to last week's poll....

The current 45 rpm records were in the YELLOW sleeves in the late 80's on the Mattoon Country Jamboree. Recurrents were red. Green must have been the older tracks.

Remember that we don't play anything that could be classified as NOT GOOD COUNTRY! I remember the Exile album having tracks that had been keyed and sloppy red handwriting on the label telling us (the idiots) what tracks were NOT GOOD COUNTRY.

That's a memory that always makes me smirk just a little, usually followed by a laugh.

Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving

Posting is slow as the triptofine (sp) is still having and adverse effect on my brain. I am sure to get some inspiration soon and am trying to dig up a few more pictures. I have my airchecks lined up and ready to post too once I figure out how to do that kind of thing.

I am sure that we have simply brilliant people reading this blog now. It's an honor to be able to spew craziness and try to rack my nearly 40 year old brain for stories from the torch. BTW...if any of you are experts in audio hosting, I could use the "idiot's guide".

Thanks and have a great week!

Paul C

Tricky Trifecta Tuesday Thanksgiving Trivia

1. Name this future WLBH employee?

2. Name the location?

3. What Lionel Richie track do you think he is cueing up?

Winner today will receive a free flying turkey courtesy of WKRP being given away via helicopter this Thursday at the Pinedale shopping mall. You must be present to win.

Of course this is Jeff Owens. This picture was taken in the basement studios of "the voice of Lake Land College - WLKL" and appeared in the 1984 MHS yearbook. The radio broadcasting club members hosted a show on Saturday mornings on 90 fm. As for the Lionel Richie track, your guess is as good as mine!

BTW...I had many good times sitting in this studio as did many of you who cut your radio teeth on the air at WLKL. I have some airchecks from LLC. Larry Oathout took the time to record one of my first nights on the air doing a battle of the bands. I still have the cassette from 20 years ago and have finally transferred it onto digital media. If I can find an audio host, I will post a few as well as a couple from WLBH the have survived for two decades.

The coolest guy in the building...KLW

I was thinking today about Ken Woodell.

Ken was certainly the coolest guy in the front offices. With all the condescension and arrogance that permeated from management, Ken Woodell was a breath of fresh air. He was kind to me even though I was a peon. He was a snappy hip guy in my view and would have made a great politician. I don't remember not knowing KLW. Being involved in Mattoon athletics and also going to Central Community Church, it seemed that I had always been around Ken and "Aunt
Millie".

Let me share one of the funny KLW stories.

I wish I could remember all the players involved but I can't. It was lunch time during a weekday and several of us were in the kitchen/dining area near the jock entrance/back door. Within a few minutes, Mr. Livesay (JRL1) came walking through and disappeared into the men's bathroom in the left hand corner of that room. I was eating my sandwich and pringles and not worrying much about JRL although he was in there for several minutes before exiting, making small talk, and then disappearing down the long red carpeted hallway. About 10 minutes later, Ken Woodell came walking through the room and made light conversation with a few of us...then he also went into the bathroom. Without much notice, he popped the door open and came out, red faced and he gave all of us this announcement...

"I don't care who shits in there. I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT!"

He closed the door and then after a minute or so exited the bathroom and said nothing to us as he also disappeared down the long red carpeted hallway. I had never really seen this side of KLW. While JRL II streamed profanities like a second language, I had never heard Ken cuss in my three years on staff. Those of us still eating our lunch exchanged glances but not much was said. We ALL knew who was in the bathroom before Ken . I don't know if there was any conversation up front about the subject. I do know that within about 15 minutes or so, Ken came
back to the kitchen again. With humility he said to us, "I guess that Ray may have been in there before I was. I think I owe you all an apology." He chuckled and shook his head and then turned and walked away. Too funny and also showed me alot about who he was as a person.

I also remember

- Christmas letters to Aunt Millie (Mrs. Woodell)
- Ken and Sharon Rogers doing afternoon remotes from BLANK county fair
- Ken hosting the "Open Line" program
- Ken and Dave Kessinger doing Eastern Illinois Football broadcasts and staying on my tiptoes listening for Ken's commercial breaks

I haven't heard much about Ken in a long time. I hope he is doing well.

For the record....I miss this guy.

The Chief

Bring him back please.

The greatest game in history

Electric Football. It was the most awesome-est game ever.

My brother John was the king of EF. When we lived on Essex Ave. behind the high school, he and Tom Fedregon made up an EF league. One night a week our dining room table would be transformed into a stadium where these two teenage neighbors would pit one of their many NFL teams against each other. They kept detailed stats. They had all star teams and certain "bases" that were guarded with tight security. In my brother's collection, Earl Cambell was the king fish. He was the stud base that destroyed any defense and he "ran" as straight as an arrow.

I had a few teams but because John and Tom played so much and changed teams so much, I would get killed by whoever they put against me. I later learned it was because of the extra 3 pounds of paint layer over layer that they had applied to the little men. John was detailed and meticulous using a toothpick as a paintbrush. The paintjobs and my inability to ever complete a pass led to my demise.

Maybe I didn't practice enough with my guys? I'm sure if you were down in their little huddle this was my teams' strategy.

1. Start in the right direction until you find someone that matches your pose and promptly do a squaredance twirl with them.

2. Turn and go to the stands to talk to your mother.

Anyway, I say all this for a reason. Last weekend I was shopping patiently with my wife and while trying to kill time as she was trying on clothes I stumbled onto this at J.C. Penney.

It's back! Wohooooo!

It sounds like the next time we are all back in 'toon town we might need to find a venue big enough to hold our NFL ELECTRIC FOOTBALL ALL STARS tournament. John's painted warriors, Larry's Studs, J.O.'s Steelers, etc.

Two Part WLBH Tuesday Trivia

Who once had a chair thrown at them by the President and General Manager of the Mattoon Broadcasting Company? Why was the said chair thrown at them?

Winner today will get an "AM remote studio ash tray" scented candle, perfect for the holidays.

Editor's Note - The correct answer here was Tom Ohlmstead. Tom was ADD before ADD was cool. He also had a white man afro similar to the guy in Air Supply. He was the afternoon host of the Mattoon Country Jamboree and I distinctly recall him wearing his wife's socks to work. Because of his ADD/hyperactivity, he would constantly be rocking in the squeaky AM chair which would drive me crazy when I was across the board in the FM studio. I don't think he minded getting on your nerves, in fact, I think that gave him pleasure.

Anyway....back to point. Once, at a sales meeting, Tom asked (out loud) (for all to hear), "Why would someone want to buy time on Stereo 97?" I'm guessing that he probably asked this question in his typical ADD fasion and it probably just struck the wrong nerve with JRL I who, as the story is relayed, picked up one of the chairs in the sales conference room and flung it in the general direction of Mr. Ohlmstead.

I beleive that Tom works for Blaw Knox and still lives in Mattoon. I'm sure he could give the story in better detail so if anyone bumps into him, please tell him about our little blog.

Thanks

How I felt when JRL II walked into the studio...

Thank you veterans

If you enjoy your freedom today, thank a veteran.

Time.com has 90 years of battlefield photographs here. I think there are 22 pics total.

Posting this again only to make Chad shiver and shudder a bit. Thanks for posting and spreading the word about our little blog located two miles north of Mattoon and one half mile west of US 45.

Holy Crap!

I thought I had seen everything. This is the Lawrence Welk show doing Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line". Just the introduction is worth watching. Larry O probably could have gotten away with playing this version on AM 1170. Very funny stuff!

Mike Bradd & Jack Ashmore

It's a bit dated, but here is a good article from the Daily Eastern News about two former WLBH staffers.

I don't know Jack. Really. I do remember Jack and Dave Kessinger doing Arthur Knight football games of which I would have to tape on Friday nights in the new production room while trying to engineer Greenwave football in FM and having another game recording in AM. Those were fun times.

I was lucky enough to work with Mike Bradd when he was news director at WLBH AM & FM and learned much from him in regards to writing and delivery. I recall Mike coming into the station after a school board meeting (during or shortly before the famed Mattoon teacher strike of the late 80's), and hearing him punching out news copy on his typewriter in the newsroom. 20 minutes later he brought in a two page story with carted soundbites well written and informational as a news story should be. I loved reading Mikes' stuff. He made you sound professional. I tried to emulate him as news director later on in my radio career in Illinois and Kentucky.

I also remember being a snot-nosed kid and listening to Ken Woodell and Mike Bradd...or Mike and Larry O on the Greenwave Basketball broadcasts when my brother was a varsity starter in the early 80's. I would play nerf hoops in my hallway during away games while listening to their broadcasts.

Later at Lake Land, Mike was my instructor and station manager. He was patient with his shallow wading pool of talent and gave us freedom to have fun on the air. I'm glad he's still instructing young eager minds as to the ways of broadcasting.

WLBH Friday Festivus Trivia Extravaganza

I am giving two possibilites today to make things fair since we have such a wide range of ages (aka - old people) in our viewing audience.

1) Name this person?

or

2) Look at the reel to reel player to the right of her head. Tell me what number this machine was on the pegboard/control unit?

Good luck and today's winners will receive "The best of Organ Moods - Volume VII"

Have a great weekend!

My wife snapped this shot at Craig T's wedding last year. L - R Jerry Lindley, Paul Crutcher, Rick Berg, David Cox, Craig Titley, Tom Etchason, Chris Considine. I think she cut David Dotson out of the picture which is sad. You can compare Berg & I to the picture from the "Toys in the Attic" to see what 22 years will do to you.

All in all, I think we've aged pretty well.

Good midwestern roots will do that to you.

If you have pictures...

...please send them to me via email to me so I can post them. We will take all eras and WLBH celebrities.

pcrutcher@lander.edu


THANKS!

BREAKING NEWS FLASH - WE HAVE FINALLY HEARD FROM LARRY O!

...received this comment this afternoon....stop....

Larry is now a bigger cheese at the Tell City-Perry County Library in Indiana. LO

I'm no CSI but I am going to speculate that LO is Larry Oathoat! You just made my day! Congratulations on attaining your bigger cheese-ness. We, the viewing audience, are dying to hear some of your stories about your time at the torch. We're glad you are doing well and please stay in touch.

A few words about Sky

Sky Drysdale and big fish (found thanks to the www)


The Real Don Steele

I was so happy to see the comment from Sky Drysdale on our little blog earlier this week. I have kept up with him through the years and know that he had a very successful run in the Rockford, IL market and as he said, has now moved on to a position with a marketing firm.

I met Sky when I was 16 after I had first started at the station. He was cool and he did a great afternoon show despite the handcuffs of the Mattoon Country Jamboree format with which he was stuck with. I remember him doing creative bits and using cool sound elements between songs. Sky was the first guy to show me how to splice together a demo tape. We do remember how to splice...right? He also offered to buy me beer and let Berg and I come over to his apartment in Mattoon just to hang out. DISTINCT MEMORY HERE - I recall glancing through his photo albums which were on the coffee table and seeing pictures of his VERY HOT wife in the shower. He winked at me and said..."probably shouldn't have these pictures in the photo album". Ha!

Sky also made the effort to influence me career wise. He brought me cassette tapes with soundchecks of guys from California like Charlie Tuna on KSDQ and The Real Don Steele (pictured above). I was floored by the talent and creativity and huge pipes of those guys. Sky had a packet sent to my house from the St. Louis Broadcast Center http://www.broadcastcenterinfo.com/ from which he was a graduate. I seriously considered it before opting for Lake Land College, the hotbed for midwestern broadcasters. Seriously though, Sky really was a big influence on me and I always remember him with a smile on his face.

It's funny. I was on FM daytime the week before Sky left for Rockford. He kept doing this NASA countdown to his announcement that he was leaving. I remember it bugging the fool out of JRL II who kept coming into the studio everytime he played it. It didn't stop him and he finally announced his departure. I remember the phones lighting up with listeners who had grown to enjoy his show.

Good memories and glad to hear you are doing well Sky. Thanks for checking in.

Another shot of Larry O for good measure

I don't know the other two mulleted gentlemen, but that's definitely Larry and I believe we are in the AM studio. This must have been mid 90's?

New comment from Sky Drysdale!

Sky is also correct on today's trivia!

Definitely Larry Oathout, who married Kathy Schonkweiller. I am probably posting this in the wrong place, so my apologies. I have a few stories I would like to submit when time allows. Anyone know what happened to Larry, Mike Bradd and Roger Swann? Would like to hear from them. After 24 years on the air (21 in the Rockford, IL market), I retired and accepted an AE position with a local marketing communications firm.

That's all for now. Keep up the good work, Paul.

Sky Drysdale

New comment from J.O.

The thing about WLBH I remember the most... is on Super Bowl Sunday. I had asked for the day off weeks in advance and Daren Foley was supposed to work and he came up with an "illness". Bub was on AM and had to stay late - but had to be somewhere that night and signed the stations off early since no one could come to work. Bub had called Jim Livesay and told him eh had to leave, and Jim okayed the sign-off Jim must have called the frat house I was living in 20 times that afternoon and my boys told him I was at the library on Super Sunday. I was drunk as a hoot-owl, they lied for me. I had to work the next day and Jim came in and gave his usual rant about the legacy of WLBH and bullEXCREMENT. I told him I was studying, and that I had the day off anyway. he was pissed. Then about 2 months later - Ray was going through the logs (what a life) and saw where Bub signed off early and he threw a gasket. Foley was long gone by then. I think we got a ten page memo on the history of WLBH and how by signing off early we tarnished WLBH. On Super Bowl Sunday... we tarnished the image of the biggest piece of EXCREMENT station on the planet. Oh the memories

Editor note - I have to take issue with the "biggest piece of dookie station on the planet" comment. Apparently you never worked for Jay Martin at Stereo Country 106 in Sullivan. That, my friend, was the biggest piece of turd station on the planet because there were actual dog and cat turds in the studio with you. They let their animals roam in the station and so you might step in a pile of shat walking from the studio to the bathroom.

WLBH Trivia Tuesday

Name this man...quite possibly the nicest guy to ever don the headphones and flip a switch at the Mattoon Broadcasting Company.

Winners today will receive "Touching Cheesus" the boxed set season one.

Editor note - J.O. is our 15th caller and wins the prize.

Editor note again - Thanks to Q for a new batch of pics.

AM & FM Library/Production Boxes

This room brings back memories.

My production box is the middle one which you see is empty on this night. Because I came in on some nights after Jerry Doll (production guru) was already gone, I would often get notes as to what kind of feel the client was looking for on certain spots. I remember one time when Jerry had a spot for me to record for Cubs baseball which I didn't see for two nights in a row. I distinctly recall coming in on a Thursday and finding my ad copy the size of a giant poster. The blue paper was as wide as those three boxes and hung nearly to the floor. Jerry had somehow copied and blown up 12 sheets of paper and then taped them together with an exact copy of the script that was due earlier in the week. He made his point! Hilarious.

Right next to the boxes to the left you see the progam log, tapes and commercial carts for the next broadcast day.

Behind on the shelves (left) you see the non-country albums that Larry played in the mornings on AM. This was probably where you would find the most "mainstream" music possible to locate at "our studios".

Upper left shelves with the small tape boxes contain the entire collection of "Interlude of Poetry with Jack Horsely". This played (of course) at 10:50pm nightly. I can remember when Mr. Horsely came in to record these programs. I was working FM daytime in the summer when JRL II came into the FM studio and announced to me that they would be using the main production studio over the next few days to record a block of "I.O.P's". They brought in nice furniture and a fancy lamp and I remember them transforming that studio into a sort of Havana Cigar Club atmosphere in advance of the session. Mr. Horsely was very kind and gentle and was a nice man in our brief interaction. I always imagined that if I was an older person who actually listened to 96.9FM on a regular basis in the evenings....I think that "Interlude" would be a pretty good way to drift off to sleep.

To the right is the FM tape library contained in the white cardboard boxes. What FM nightime jock can forget pulling FM and SCA tapes? This is like a peek behind the wizard's curtain! The source for "Music from Mattoon!"

BTW...one final note. The carpet in this room had some mystery stains that I wasn't responsible for. That's all I will say about that.

Next time...a shot of the front desk and the Gone With The Wind-ish front stairwell.

Until then...

We've received a couple of comments from Q

Welcome to Q who spent a considerable amount of time at WLBH in the 90's. Your insight is welcomed and we're glad you are here...

In case you missed it, here is Q's comment on our FM Studio pic.

I really wish I would have taken pictures after I cleaned up both studios. We gutted all of the wires and eventually even replaced the Sparta board in AM. the FM board was replaced fall of 95. From 1996 to 2000, a lot of changes were made in the studios.

FM Studio Control

Toys in the Attic

Berg, Kathy Mattea, Yours Truly circa Summer 1986

I was driving home last night and remembered an event that I thought was worthy of sharing.

How many of us remember the short walk from the WLBH AM or FM studios through the kitchen and into the dusty area housing the large noisy transmitters responsible for pumping our signal out to all reaches of our coverage map? We always took our meter readings on time...like clockwork...never cheating or just looking through the glass panes while kicked back in the squeaky chairs...right?


This particular story happened one night when I was covering the FM side and Rick Berg was on AM. I remember seeing all sorts of characters through the glass just over the wooden mini-lecturn just over the FM board. Berg, Larry Oathoat in the mornings, Sky Drysdale, Jerry Doll on the weekends, the list goes on and on. The only bad thing about having Berg across the glass from you was what he would do to try and get a laugh. I remember one afternoon at 6:45pm reading the intro to JRL's editorial commentary... "It's time now for editorial commentary featuring Ray Livesay, President and General Manager of the Mattoon Broadcasting Company.. and when I looked up after I hit the commercial, Berg's bare butt cheeks were smashed up against the glass less than a foot or so from my eye level. I barely had time to compose myself for"And now, Mr. Livesay."

One night after Berg had signed off the AM (it was winter and AM signed off early), and I was past the top of the hour festivities on the FM, he grabbed a flashlight and told me to follow him as we headed through the kitchen, behind the transmitters and up the steps towards the top floor (which, of course, was completely off limits to anyone who wasn't in "the family").

I said, "Rick...where are we going?"
He said, "You'll see".

It wasn't long until we were up the steps and walking down a long dark narrow hallways with doors on either side of us. We stopped about halfway down the hall. I could see light at the end of the hall radiating from the holy grail office of JRL I. He handed me the flashlight and then he disappeared...up...into the rafters. I tossed the flashlight up to him and then followed him up wondering what in the world we were doing. I could hear my mother's voice saying "If Rick Berg jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?".

Here we were, at work, scaling rafters by flashlight doing God knows what. It wasn't long until Rick did a kind of Tarzan swing lowering himself down and then dropping down into into one of the mystery rooms on the north side of the building. I followed suit. As soon as we were on solid ground, I could see lights in the distance from the window (YIKES) but they passed the long driveway so we were safe...wherever we were. Berg pointed the flashlight towards a box near a table, he took off the top of the box and there it was...a LARGE stack of vintage girly magazines from years gone by. This was the personal stash of JRL II probably from his Navy days. We stayed for a while until I glanced at my watch realizing that it was time for the 30 break. I was ready to climb back up into the rafters when Berg simply opened the door and walked out. Doh!

This was pretty high adventure in comparison to most early evenings at "our studios". I would rank it in my top 10.

It was fun though and it sure beat looking at Berg's butt.

Until next time....