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For WLOF,... I'm Dick Shane.
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Yes, I know we have seen enough Dick Shane and The Rascals but here is a shot that includes the WLOF Hearse that ended
up under the Orlando Youth Center bandstand in a compact cube. The last time I saw it was in the mid-seventies on a cleanup day
it was dredged out of lake Formosa and sent off to a more appropriate resting place. |
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The facility, the van, the memories. Like the movie FM and even Private Parts, there was as much interesting stuff going on
behind the scenes as there was on the air. I couldn't believe they actually paid me to come to work. I was young and naive
and having the time of my life. Sure, I learned reality later but what a job! |
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This is the office of the vice president and general manager of WLOF, John Rutledge but wait, no... it's Corey
Meyer the studio engineer risking his life in JTR's chair. (click on him for bigger picture) |
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Not too long after I came to work at WLOF in 1966 an addition for more studio space was built out front.
A second production room and later a newsroom was added. This is an early picture taken of News Director, Terry Lee busy at his
word processor before a newscast. At this time he had to go to the control room, displace the DJ to do the news. Later, the
newsroom was wired with it's own console. |
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After the "rockradio wars" of the 60's, WHOO called it quits. East of the WLOF parking lot a sign of victory was
erected in the form of a gravesite. The headstone read "Here lies Radio 99, The boys with the noise fixed 'em fine. Never again
would an AM Rock Station threaten Channel 95. But looming over the horizon was the launch of rock FM in the form of WORJ, WDIZ
and BJ-105 and the battle of the seventies would end much differently. Someone else can tell that story. I prefer to remember
the Sixties... For WLOF,... I'm Dick Shane. |