I recently got back from a fun, two-week vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and southern California. The first week in Cabo, we rented one floor of a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Our rental came with a car, so each day we planned one main activity and attempted to find our way through the dusty, speed bump-filled streets of this city on the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
We went horseback riding on the beach. Our tour leader looked just like Pancho Villa.
One day we chartered a boat to take us snorkeling as well as around the beautiful rock formations including Land's End aka the Arch of Cabo San Lucas.
Later in the week we went parasailing around these same beautiful landmarks.
Week two was spent with family in Wildomar, California which is about an hour from both Los Angeles and San Diego. Temperature records were being broken all over southern California when we arrived. It was 110 degrees in Wildomar the day we got there.
We hit Legoland, the San Diego Zoo, Del Mar Beach at Camp Pendleton (twice) and Laguna Beach. And, as is mandatory, (especially with the grandkids in tow) Disneyland.
My wife posing with a clumsy, dimwitted dog. And Goofy.
Radio Disney was launched in November, 1996 in four markets--Minneapolis, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Birmingham, Alabama. The network for preteen listeners existed primarily on AM stations even though it had a music intensive format. At one time Radio Disney could be heard on dozens of stations nationwide but, after a major selloff in 2014, currently exists mostly on FM station's HD sub-channels.
AM 1340 WALL & AM 1390 WEOK - Poughkeepsie, New York
AM 1300 WRDZ - La Grange, Illinois
AM 710 KDIS - The onetime flagship station based in Los Angeles, California.
Princeton, New Jersey's WHWH signed on the air in September, 1963. The call letters stand for the station's founder and principal owner (W) Herbert WHobler.
Unfortunately, the ink from the back of another decal stuck to the front of the above window cling sticker from 1996. WHWH currently carries programming in Spanish.
This is a staff shirt from when WHWH was co-owned with WPST.
950 AM in Rochester, New York became WBBF (W Buy BForman) when they were bought by the B. Forman department store chain in 1953. They were a successful Top-40 station from that time up through the late 1970s before flipping to Talk in the 1980s.
WBBF-FM went on the air as a listener-supported Classical station in 1961. The above magnet is circa the late 1990s when they were an Oldies station at 98.9 FM.
At one time, WBBF also lived at 93.3 FM licensed to Avon, New York.
Los 40 Principales is a chain of Contemporary Hit Radio stations in multiple Central and South American countries as well as Spain. "Los 40" began in Madrid in 1966 as a Top-40 chart show broadcast on Radio Madrid and later on Cadena SER stations. In 1979, 40 Principales expanded from an 8 hour show to its own network of stations dedicated to the Top-40 chart. They became an independent network in 1987.
Beacon Radio went on the air from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England in April, 1976. The Independent Local Radio station is now known as "Free Radio" and broadcasts at 103.1 and 97.2 FM.
1520 AM WTRI went on the air in 1966 and is licensed to Brunswick, Maryland. They probably broadcast a Country format when this sticker was current. The station was once owned by oddball politician and conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche. Recent years has seen a variety of formats including Standards, Classic Country, Spanish and Asian-centered programming as well as going silent multiple times.
1440 AM WMVB (W Millville Vineland Bridgeton) airs a Variety format in Millville, New Jersey. They were probably an Easy Listening or Adult Contemporary station when this sticker first appeared. They stopped simulcasting on FM in 1988. 97.3 FM is currently WENJ, an ESPN Radio-affiliated Sports station.
WJSR was a student-run station broadcasting from the campus of Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama. Interestingly, they shared the same frequency as another college radio station in the same city--Samford University's WVSU. Apparently this wasn't a time-share agreement. Both stations operated at the same time utilizing directional antennas away from each other. WJSR was on the air from 1979 until 2014.
910 AM WAKO went on the air in Lawrenceville, Illinois in 1959. They currently carry a Classic Country format which is simulcast on translator W257DW at 99.3 FM.
88.5 FM KTEP is a non-commercial, public radio station broadcasting from the University of Texas at El Paso. Former ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson was the station manager there in the 1950s when they had the call letters KVOF.
The coupons on the back of this KOTC bumper sticker dates it to 1995. Given the slogan on the decal, they may well have been a Country station although 1996's Broadcast Yearbook says they carried an Adult Contemporary/Classic Gold format. KOTC was licensed to Kennett, Missouri and went silent in 2008. 830 AM first began broadcasting as KBOA in 1947.
1540 AM KGLA is a Spanish Tropical station licensed to Gretna, Louisiana just east of New Orleans. They are also heard on translator K289AM at 105.7 FM.
I'm not exactly sure what Radio Works was when they existed in the early 1990s. I do know they were part of Communication Graphics, Inc. (still around, although now known as Comgraphx) a designer and printer of promotional marketing products including, I assume, radio station bumper stickers. You can read their "manifesto" below which is printed on the back of the decal.
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99.5 FM WRNO was a Rock station in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1967 until 2006. In 1982, WRNO "The Rock of the World" became the first commercial shortwave station to broadcast from the United States. They originally carried a separate Rock format but eventually began simulcasting WRNO FM's programming. It's unclear if the top sticker was for the FM station or the shortwave station--or both.
The 100,000-watt FM outlet now carries a News/Talk format while WRNO Worldwide carries a Religious format.
1360 AM KSCJ airs a News/Talk format in Sioux City, Iowa. They recently celebrated their 90th year on the air having begun broadcasting on April 4, 1927. The call letters stand for (K) Sioux City Journal, the newspaper which once owned the station.
