January 2 Metro Golden Memories gets new owners as Chuck retires from the retail business and sells the store to employee-manager John Sebert and his wife Marge.
February 1— 22 Jack Benny Month on TWTD features short telephone conversations with “Jack Benny” who calls in before each broadcast begins. John Sebert supplies the voice of Mr. Benny with a little help from Rosemary Cwik as Mable Flapsaddle, the telephone operator.
April 19 Chuck interviews actress/writer Peg Lynch and sound effects man Barney Beck at the Cincinnati, Ohio Old Time Radio convention.
June 14 TWTD observes the 10th anniversary of the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
July 1 TV appearance: Dateline: Morton Grove, Media One Cable. Host Shel Marcus and guest Chuck Schaden talk about old-time radio and “tune in” to Jack Armstrong, Superman, Captain Midnight, Backstage Wife and Ma Perkins.
July 27 Chicago Tribune Magazine columnist Rick Kogan writes:
Chuck Schaden, who is best known as host of a wonderful radio show—Those Were the Days—also publishes one of the area’s most interesting magazines. Called Nostalgia Digest, it contains a complete schedule of Schaden’s radio programs. But it also has any number of fine articles. In the August-September issue there is a solid take on the career of Al Jolson; a remembrance of that radio superhero known as the Shadow; the story of the great Irish tenor John McCormack; and a charming story investigating whether that otherwise ‘silent’ Marx Brother, Harpo, ever spoke on film or radio. Handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated, Nostalgia Digest is a small format publication with a pleasant punch. Though many of the articles in it have been written by non-professionals, these people bring a palpable passion and enthusiasm to the page.
Dateline: Morton Grove
Shel Marcus & Chuck
September 1 TV appearance. Dateline: Morton Grove, Media One Cable. Host Shel Marcus and guest Chuck Schaden discuss radio news programming and World War II shows from the Golden Age of Radio.
September 6 TWTD Program Number 1400 and the first time the program number of each broadcast is mentioned on the air.
October 4 The Player Piano Clinic in Berwyn becomes a long-running sponsor of TWTD.
