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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP92: Radio And Coney Island (1906 - 1960)
Description: In Breaking Walls episode 92 we open the summer season with a trip to Coney Island, Brooklyn. The New York city summer locale was frequented in radio programs and by radio performers. It was also, in the days of wireless telegraphy, an important station location for Guglielmo Marconi.
Highlights:
• Marconi’s last link
• André Baruch Gets His Radio Start at Coney Island
• Allen’s Alley Opens the Summer
• Connee Boswell Sings
• The Crime Club Uncovers a Coney Island Murder
• Irma and Jane Go To the Beach
• Broadway Is My Beat
• Vincent Price in Coney Island
• Jean Shepherd Stops By
• We Take the Subway Home
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