Remember Road trip AM Radio?

[l00p]

I have such fond memories of road trip radio particularly with my father. I used to love being out on the road and we'd pick up a super station from really far away. It was cool to be on the way out to Cali and be in Nevada at midnight and when the commercials came, they were from Chicago, Kansas City or somewhere you were nowhere near.

A program we loved was Mystery Theater. It was a throwback to the early days of radio. They would have footsteps, door creaking and any sound that helped give you that mental picture through your ears.

I can remember a couple of times the signal started to fade away so we would stop somewhere safe until the show was over so we could get to the ending when it was solved. Once we even turned back in the mountains to a rest area type spot till it was over.

Well, they are all online. All 1,399 of them for either listening via stream or download. So if you enjoyed these, you are welcome.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater

 

[Michtex]

Never listened to the Mystery Theater, but I remember back in the day that listening to AM radio stations at night from faraway locations had such an allure for me.

 

[kbrown]

Growing up in Amarillo in the sixties I remember having my transistor radio with the one eirpiece and picking up KOMA in Oklahoma City late at night. It seemed as if I were hearing something from Mars.

 

[hooklahoma]

aways been fascinated with radio. We were a military family in the 70's and we routinely took 3-5 day road trips to get to our next base and 2 more trips per year back to grandmas in IOWA. I loved paul harvey and kasey kasem's top 40 during those trips.

 

[Knoxville-Horn]

Yep. Paul Harvey was the best. I've got all his stories on a zip file on my laptop. Going to make good use of them when we go on our family road trip to Phoenix (from Knoxville) in April.

 

[l00p]

K-ville, that is going to be so cool! Hows about some classic country music, the real stuff, to go with it? You'll be, ahem, king of the road.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

WLS Chicago. I could pick it up at home in TN every night back when AM radio was more than Tejano and talk.

 

[Horn89]

My first car was a dreadful Ford Granada with bench seats and an AM radio.

I listened to a lot of Larry King as a teenager. And he had guests that I otherwise wouldn't have listened to for hours. Authors, actors, musicians, politicians, etc. I think that crappy AM radio made me a more well-rounded person. I remember lots and lots of trips back and forth to Austin listening to talk radio for hours... and yeah, I remember the Mystery Theater, and I remember worrying that I'd get out of station range before the shows were over.

Lately when I scan AM radio, the ONLY type of late-night talk shows I hear are 1) sports radio, and 2) lunatics who talk for hours every night about UFO's and alien invasions.

 

[dillohorn]

In 1968 I could listen to Okla City radio (KOMA, I believe) in the early mornings while I was at Camp Pendleton, Ca. Seemed like a miracle back then.