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Refinery Explosion
Airdate: Thursday - April 19, 1962

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

Last Update: 11-13-2024

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
a passenger on a swan seat bus in Wales. . .
Show Description
Shep reads article about man finding the hand of a mummy on a bus and then expands on it. Walking along 42nd street in the dark of the moon - inside of each of us there is a peeping Tom He tells about, as a kid, how he lived in a steel town and was a mailboy at a mill. He describes cleaning out the open hearth furnaces. As a kid one day his family was driving past a refinery when all of a sudden in the distance one of the stills blew up. The river began to burn. Walking throught the streets of Ibadan Nigerial
[ Courtesy: Gary Hines - 11-13-2024 ] Refinery Explosion, guy finds mummy hand on bus, x-ray vision toy, Mill-cleaning the open hearth, Refinery Explosion Kid Story,, The Night the Still Blew Up.
News Articles Read by Shep During Show
Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans
Time Image Description
• 00:08 Gripping Episode
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
• 11:26 Speaking of 2500 year old mummified hands, this is WOR AM and FM New Yorkee . . .
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
• 11:34 Alcoa Aluminum
• 15:05 Movie Promotion Counterfeit Trader - William Holden
Music (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
• 01:11 Gesang Der Junglinge / Song Of The Youths
• 11:13 Tiger Rag
• 17:29 Bye Bye Blues
• 39:00 Banjorama
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
Time Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 15:32 Al
Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show
Instruments Played
None
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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used
Time Category Date Title Comments
Travel Trip To Nigeria
Plots / Story Lines Steel Mill
General Topics Poetry
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
April 19, 1962
Recno: 3247
Refinery Explosion Original Airing
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