This episode was originally released on 9/1/2021. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.
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In Breaking Walls episode 119 we continue our Americana mini-series by bringing our appetites to the diner. We’ll hear stories from some of radio’s best and center ourselves around shows taking place in establishments.
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Highlights:
• What Exactly is a Diner?
• Lux Presents Hollywood
• Suspense At the End of World War II
• The Diner After World War II
• Bill Conrad, Burt Lancaster, and The Killers
• ABC Takes Friday Nights With This Is Your FBI
• Frank Sinatra and His Rocky Fortune
• Going Back to Gunsmoke
• James Earl Jones and Theater Five
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The reading material used in today’s episode was:
• On the Air - By John Dunning
• Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg
As well as:
• From Hash House to Family Restaurant: The Transformation of the Diner and Post-World War II Consumer Culture — By Andrew Hurley from The March 1997 Journal of American History.
And other articles from:
• Paste Magazine
• Smithsonian Magazine
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On the interview front:
• Parley Baer, Conrad Binyon, Norman Corwin, and Lurene Tuttle spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.
• Parley Baer, Jerry Devine, Lawrence Dobkin, Fred Foy, and Bob Maxwell, were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.
• William Spier spoke with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear this full interview at Goldenage-WTIC.org.
• John Dehner was with Neil Ross for KMPC.
• Frank Sinatra spoke with Arlene Francis, Walter Cronkite, and Larry King.
• William Conrad with Chris Lambesis.
• Norman Macdonnell with John Hickman of WAMU for his Gunsmoke documentary.
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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:
• Theme From A Summer Place — By Percy Faith
• I’ve Got The World on a String and Why Try To Change Me Now — By Frank Sinatra
• The Venice Dreamer Pt1 and 2 — By George Winston
• Across the Alley from the Alamo — By The Mills Brothers
