[NJARC] California Historical Radio Society News

[John Dilks K2TQN]

This message is from the California Historical Radio Society and is 
intended for our members & other interested parties.
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     CHRS/KRE REPORT: Our work days this past weekend produced great 
results. We got lots done in the building & on the grounds. Our Saturday 
crew members were Larry Drees, Jerry Cantou, Janice Kushman, Butch McDonald 
& Maria Palting, Harry Kauffman, Tom Bonomo, Alan Voorhees, Joe Grossman, 
Scott Robinson, Bill Wray, John Staples, Art Lebermann & myself. Lots of 
weeds were eliminated, the road is clean & weed free, the flower beds are 
complete, W6CF was tweaked, light fixtures were put up &  hundreds of 
radios were sorted into lots. And, many radios were dropped off & donated 
to us. On Sunday, Bill Wray returned with a floor scrubbing machine & made 
the floors in the Dillberg Radio repair shop & the upstairs hallway look 
almost new. Alan Voorhees added more auction lots, Janice Kushman cleaned 
the parking lot & Steve Kushman worked in the studio. A huge thank you to 
all worked for CHRS last weekend. Our building & grounds will look quite 
spiffy for the Big Event thanks to our dedicated volunteers.

     Remember, the only way we will succeed in our vision of creating a 
place devoted to RADIO at KRE, is by your continuing support. CHRS needs 
your dollars and your time. Please donate both to CHRS. It will make you 
feel great. If you haven't sent back your 2005 renewals & donations, please 
do it as soon as you can. You will be able to catch up on your renewals on 
Saturday.
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             4 Days to go until....     "Live! at KRE 2005"....

         July 16th - "LIVE! at KRE 2005 - An event to benefit CHRS". This 
Saturday - 10 am - 2 p.m. -  Gate opens at 9:30 am. At the KRE Building, 
601 Ashby Ave., in Berkeley. CHRS will present "Frankye Kelly & Friends" 
and "The Tamsen Donner Band", plus "The Broadcast Legends", live on stage. 
Our Master of Ceremonies will be legendary Bay Area radio personality & 
CHRS member, Carter B. Smith. We also will have a giant auction, radio flea 
market, tours of KRE, the KVTO & KFRC transmitters, W6CF will go on the air 
for the 1st time from its new home, presentation of the 2005 Herrold Award, 
Edison cylinder concert featuring the Amberola 30 playing very vintage 
music. Food & Beverages and much more. We encourage you to bring your 
family & friends. It will be a festive day full of fun for all. $5 per 
person donation at the gate.

     THINK BIG THIS YEAR. We raised over $4000 last year so we want to 
raise $10,000+ this year. We now have over 160 lots of radios to be 
auctioned. Please check out the special auction preview web page. We are 
offering up some great radios! Just added today is a 1927 Grebe HS-8 built 
into a beautiful drop front desk. A rare radio indeed.     Come and enjoy 
the extraordinary vocal styling of "Frankye Kelly & Friends". Ms. Kelly 
sings at Yoshi's, the Ritz Carlton, has 3 CDs and tours Europe. Her 
specialty is Jazz, Blues & Standards. We will also present the popular 
local Blues/Rock, "Tamsen Donner Band". And don't forget, the "Broadcast 
Legends" performing the the opening & a scene from "Gunsmoke" on stage & 
the Edison cylinder concert.

     We are pleased to be featuring Aidells fine sausages at the event. We 
wish to thank the Aidells Sausage Co. for their generous donation of 4 
cases of tasty links to feed hungry radio collectors. We will need a lot of 
volunteers to staff this event. We need: a safety officer, people on the 
gate, parking monitors & ushers, food staff, auction staff, tour guides, 
flea market staff, clean up crew & stage managers. Please reply to 
kushseal at flash.net if you want to help. Stay tuned for schedule of events & 
auction list. We need lots of volunteers starting at 7 am to haul all the 
radios out of the building and to set up the event.

     Be sure to visit our web site. Mike Adams updates it frequently. See 
pictures of radios to be auctioned, the auction list & the continuing 
restoration of KRE.
         http://www.californiahistoricalradio.com/

     A reminder that CHRS has a site at Yahoo Groups. This is a place you 
can post messages, (items for sale, wanted, questions, etc). It's free. 
Here is the link to sign up:
         http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CaliforniaHistoricalRadio/