In Breaking Walls episode 155 we find ourselves walking the streets of New York eighty years ago. We’ll weave the tales of radio people within this great city that means so much to me. —————————— Highlights: • Why I’m Here — The Tenth Anniversary of Breaking Walls • Bob Hope, Joan Leslie, and Dennis Day in Central Park • CBS World News Today at The Fleet Post Office • Al Trace at the Hotel Dixie • New York: A Tapestry For Radio with Orson Welles • New World A’Coming, Harlem Week, and the Fight For Civil Rights • Jackie Gleason Debuts on the Radio And Remembers Growing Up in Brooklyn • Duffy’s Tavern with Brooklynite Gene Tierney • The Eternal Light and the Founding of Temple Emanuel in Manhattan • Jubilee with Mel Allen • Orson Welles and Edgar Bergen Walk the Streets of NYC in 1995 • New World A' Coming and The First Noel • Christmas with Fred Allen on Information Please at the St. Albans Naval Hospital in Queens • Getting off the Treadmill — Taking a Break from Breaking Walls —————————— The WallBreakers: thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material used in today’s episode was: • On The Air — By John Dunning • Gleason's Second Honeymoon — By Pete Hammil • The Great One: The Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason — By William A. Henry • Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg As well as articles and features from • Broadcasting Magazine • Ephemeral New York • The Library of Congress • Naval History and Heritage Command • The New York Times • The Sydney Morning Herald —————————— On the interview front: • Don Ameche spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear this full chat at Speakingofradio.com. • Mel Allen, and Edgar Bergen spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org • Norman Corwin spoke with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver. • Bob Hope spoke with Dick Cavett • Gene Tierney spoke with Mike Douglas • Fred Allen spoke with Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg —————————— I’d like to thank Chuck Schaden, the late Dick Bertel, the late John Dunning, and SPERDVAC. Without these people and their tremendous work I’d never have been able to do a single episode of Breaking Walls. I’d also like to thank Dr. Joseph Webb for opening the door for me into this world five months before I officially changed Breaking Walls completely into a history of radio broadcasting. —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Glenn B. John M. Baker Stuart Bershtein Dale Bonifant Cecilia Orson Orsen Chandler Phil Erickson Ray Greenberg Kevin Halstead Jessica Hanna Perri Harper Diane Holmes Ed Howell Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Gerrit Lane Kevin McLaughlin Earl Millard Andrew Milner Gary Mollica Ursula Moran-Stearns Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus John R. Nicholson Dave Ratcliffe Maureen Scully Ray Shaw Filipe A Silva Wa6cp Terry Wallace John Williams Jim W. WildEyeWheel Thomas Zotti