WQAM, Rick Shaw, Jim Dunlop, Roby Yonge--the best group of dj's of all time

Wow now that was a brain explosion for me. I listened to that station every day for years. Thanks for the memory.

The West Palm Beach Library on a Saturday morning/afternoon?

How about lum's hot dogs or the dances at riviera rec center,Royal Castle (there is still one open in miami).

I think I use to listen more to WHEW 1600 AM that had it's studio located out off of Military Trail with a DJ named Chris Edwards.  I got to be friends with him and use to hang out there sometimes and on occasion's go to dinner with him and his wife.  I believe his real name, as I recall, was Edward Reinholtz Jr. and he went by the name of Chris Edwards as a DJ.  Many years later I was traveling through somewhere in California, flipping through stations and I happened to hear a DJ say... "this is Chris Edwards"  and I always wondered if it could have been the same guy.  He did sound like him.

Yes Dave, the Chris Edwards you heard in California is the same Chris Edwards we used to listen to at WHEW. Funny, my last year at RBHS I got to know him, used to go out to the studio, too. One evening on his mother-in-law's (remember her?) birthday we sang live happy birthday to her, accompanied by banging on pots and pans (?) and using the vacuum cleaner as a trumpet. Sometime in the 90s I was watching an American movie on german TV. It started with a camera shot of a car driving through a street in some california town and the radio was playing. All of a sudden a voice said (something like) "You are listening to K??? with Chris Edwards". Right at the beginning, before he said his name, I remembered his voice. Wish I could remember the name of the movie. A few years ago, I googled his name and found out he left WHEW in ‘69 (I think), went to California, was very successful, and became an executive for the station. I even have his E-Mail address, (it’s a couple years old, now). I haven’t gotten around to writing him though. Oh yeah, the night before I left to go into the Army, Chris broadcast that on the air and wished me well. Who knows, maybe that's why I got back safely.

Stephen Bohanan wrote:

Thanks Steve, that is great information.  I think I even met his mother-in-law at one of the dinners I went too.  Chris was a really nice guy and I'm happy to know he apparently made it in the business.  Now that you mention it, I do believe that is just what I heard when I flipped to that station when I was traveling in California.  Chris had a big heart and loved what he did.  I remember WHEW was just a small concrete block building mabe like 20 feet by 30 feet with a door going into a small waiting/viewing area and the DJ sat behind a large glass window.  There was a black door with a red "ON AIR" light above it used to enter the DJ's booth and there wasn't very much room when you got in it.  The shows were3 basically live with about a 7 to 10 second delay between saying something and those words actually going out over the air.  This was to allow a means of bleeping something is something was inadvertantly said that shouldn't have been.  It was a busy time loading up real records and keying them to run when the button was pushed.  Outside and behind the DJ Booth I think in the hall and a small room on the end were shelf after shelf of 45 RPM records all sorted with some extra copies in case of damage.  What a great collection that would be to have today. 

Remember.......Goobleys Dairy?   When we first moved to Florida from Connecticut, we would get our milk from Goobleys Dairy.  The milk came in the old, slender milk bottles that were returned.  They had paper bottle caps covered with a paper seal over the top.  The milk came unhomogenized with cream on the top and skim on the bottom. 

Sarah Phillips wrote:

I don't remember Goobley's, I think we got ours from McArthur's Dairy, but it was pretty much the same process with the bottles delivered to the door by the Milkman.

  I used to listen to WHEW & WIRK. Coolest stations in town.

Sarah Phillips wrote:

   I think most people got their milk there. I lived down the road off the corner of Miltary Trail and Lake Park Road.  The only other Dairy around that I knew of was Frolick's Dairy all the way out to the end on Lake Park Road. In the 70's they gave up cows and started raising Gators.

cec

  I was just reading some of this and listening to oldies. The song "It's Almost Tomorrow" by The Dream Weavers came on. Does anyone out there remember it's. They played it for the last dance every Saturday night at the Lake Park Town Hall dances.

  I usually danced that last one with a girl from Palm Beach high. Never really knew her. Just always danced that last one with her.

cec

A great memory of that "last dance" at so many of the Lake Park Dances for me.  Your comment about listening to the oldies prompted me to go "find" this one - found it at YouTube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAe6uImyrr8

Rick

Haha, what a blast from the past!  Why do I keep remembering Skeeter Davis?

Sarah:

That was Goolsby's Dairy, I believe, but close enough.  I believe it was at the corner of Old Dixie Highway and North Lake Boulevard on the southwest side.  My grandfather took me out there once in the early 50s to see the bottling operation.  There was a boy my age (Class of 66) by the name of Jim Goolsby who went to Lake Park Elementary and then North Palm Beach when it opened in the 58-59 school year. I knew him briefly when I spent a snowbird winter there in 5th grade.  A year or two later the family moved the dairy out to Okeechobee; perhaps their land became too valuable in Lake Park.    

Thank You Ray.  We moved to NPB in 59.  The first day in Florida was my 9th birthday.  When we first moved we got our milk from Goolsby Dairy.  I was fascinated by the bottles and how it was non-homogenized.  We moved from Connecticut.  We all know that after 59 there was a boom in the area.  It was a great home dairy though.  Today I strive to get back to the simple life.

Remember Riviera Groves across from Publix?  We used to get fresh orange jusice there by the gallon.  You would bring in your gallon jug and they would fill it with fresh orange juice.  Anyone remember?

Oops: Here I go again; it's an obsession.

During our snowbird winters in the early 50s, we lived in what was first known as Tanner's Court trailer park and later Lynn's Court.  It was on U.S. 1 about a block or two north of Riviera Groves, but in the later 1950s when they extended Avenue E north to Silver Beach Road, the owner sold the front half of the court--which was mostly little wooden tourist cottages--and a gas station was put there.  He then changed the entrance to the Avenue E side. Since we had the southwest corner lot, we had to move and eventually sold the trailer. 

I can remember my mother taking my brother, sister, and me to Riviera Groves to see how the oranges were sorted and crated.  At Christmastime my grandparents always made sure we had oranges from there in our stockings.  To this day I can't smell a good, fresh orange without thinking of my grandmother hand-squeezing some oranges from Riviera Groves to make orange juice.

Here's an attachment I think everyone will appreciate.

Ray 

Ha!  Thank you Ray!  I am keeping the picture.  By the way, I have some Florida Oranges in my fridge as we speak. The juicey, big, with seeds, kind.   I tell my daughter there is no such thing as an orange if it doesn't come from Florida.  You can tell the difference.  Every time I smell a good orange I remember Florida and the only real oranges that exist for me.  Thanks for the picture.

All I can say is "WOW" you guys are fantastic with these memory's.Brought back a lot of good thoughts..........Thank you all so much.

Ray, I can remember working in that trailer park a few times after Hurricanes.Picking up palm frons and such.

Think we got our milk from McArthur Dairy as well.Just exactly as you described Sarah,paper caps and all.I can even remember getting the ice cream cups with the paper top,and the wooden utensil that came with it they called a spoon.Junk food I went to Burger King US 1 where Chuck Dettman used to work and several others.Great place to get free food.Used to go to Royal Castle every morning after summer football practice( a bunch of us di) on North Lake Blvd.eat tons of food,drink plenty of FRESH FLORIDA OJ,then go home sleep a couple hours and go back to afternoon football.

Ironically I even worked for Royal Castle for a bit while in school in Jupiter right on US1.Now that was a mistake.

Thanks for all the interesting info every one.