February 9 Memory Movie is “The Horn Blows at Midnight” (1945) starring Jack Benny and Alexis Smith.
March 26 Chuck’s Nostalgia Broadcast Center moves to 9004 Waukegan Road, Morton Grove. Those Were The Days programs are now broadcast from this location and are open to the public.
MARCH 29, 1980 Actor Buster Crabbe autographs a “cartoon¬bio” of his career, drawn by artist Joel Bogart, a long-time member of our very first TWTD support staff. Behind Buster, from left, are original Support Staff volunteers Dennis Bubacz, Mort Paradise, Gary Schroder and Joel Bogart.
March 29-30 Actor Buster Crabbe, star of “Flash Gordon,” “Buck Rogers” and “Tarzan” films, appears in person on TWTD and at North West Federal’s auditorium to meet fans and talk about his career.
April 1-29 Chuck leads a 5-week seminar, “Radio and Television: Those Were the Days” for the Elmwood Park Arts and Humanities Commission.
April 12 & 19 Abbreviated editions of TWTD follow WNIB broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera. Program runs from the end of the opera until 7 p.m.
April 26 Those Were The Days Tenth Anniversary broadcast; plus a special celebration at the Memory Movie as Chuck takes a multi-media look at Radio’s Golden Age.
May 3 As TWTD begins its eleventh year of programming, it has been on the air longer than a number of classic shows from radio’s Golden Age: Life of Riley, Life with Luigi, Lights Out (5 years each); Abbott and Costello (6 years); Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (8 years each); Ozzie and Harriet (10 years).
May 3 Memory Movie is “Here We Go Again” (1942) starring Fibber McGee and Molly, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Harold Peary.
APRIL 26, 1980 A “cartoon-bio” of the first ten years of TWTD, drawn by artist Bogart, was presented to Chuck on the occasion of his tenth anniversary on the air. Note the likenesses of Chuck, Mort, Dennis, Gary and even Joel himself, along with humorous recollections of milestones in the first decade of the program.
May 10 Memory Movies’ Tenth Anniversary, celebrated with “The Shadow Returns” (1946) plus “The Great Gildersleeve” (1942) starring Harold Peary.
June 9 Chuck interviews announcer Don Wilson at the TWTD studio in Morton Grove, Illinois.
August 23 Special stage and screen show at the Memory Movie featuring the film “Banjo on My Knee” (1936) with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, plus a lively stage show starring the Banjo Buddies Dixieland Band, in person.
October 18 Writer-historian Curtis L. Katz makes his first of many guest appearances on TWTD. His first topic is movie animation.
October 25 Memory Movie is “The Great American Broadcast” (1941) starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Ink Spots.
