[GreenKeys] [External] New York Times Wire Room - 1942

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Thu Nov 16 20:25:50 EST 2023


    When in my teens I sometimes hung out at KFI, the local NBC station. 
KFI had a real news room with perhaps half a dozen teletype machines in 
it. Could be quite noisy, was always hot and had a strong odor of oil. I 
loved to watch the machines print stuff. A very long time ago.

On 11/16/2023 4:03 PM, Keith Lueck wrote:
> Yeah, you woulda thought they'd be more worried about other things given 
> that Pearl Harbor had occurred 10 months prior...
> 
> Man, can you imagine how hot an noisy it was in that room?
> 


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998


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