Living On Air (18 page)

PICTURE SECTION

↑ My Mom and Dad, 1939.

↑ This is half of my family, Mom’s side, that came to our house for dinner on Sunday afternoons.

↑ With my big brother Hank

↑ I was 15 years old, running the WWCO remote broadcast equipment for Joe Sherwood, behind me.

↑ Exchange Place, downtown Waterbury. The building in the middle is 65 Bank St., WWCO.

↑ Ron Gregory in the WWCO FM studio. I used to hide from the bosses beneath those turntables.

↑ Tim Clark in the WWCO AM studio at 65 Bank St.

↑ At my home radio station, WOLF in Oakville, 15 years old.

↑ The one and only Johnny Walker from WWCO. Later at Q107 he called himself Uncle Johnny.

↑ Me as Tom Collins just before leaving for NBC in Washington, D.C.

↑ Me as Joe Cipriano one month later with my new “NBC” look.

↑ Gordon Peil, my new boss at WKYS in Washington. He called me “Goomba.”

↑ In the WKYS studio, 1975.