Ballon Ride in PA
Airdate: Wednesday - February 19, 1969

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

Last Update: 05-02-2023

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Tashikaka Kalahara, a dentist. . .

Show Description

A salute to Tashikaka Kalahara Reads John Masefield poem "Bill" from "Salt Water Poems and Ballads" Mentions he just got back from his 2nd Africa Trip Was on big TV Show Saturday with Gypsie Rose Lee. (Fisherman's world) Shep mentions he was good buddies with ballooist Don Piccard and describes the 'ascension' he mad with Don one Sunday morning at dawn.

Comments

• Shep refers to NY Times article of Jan 29, 1969 which he is placing into the vast file of dynamic trivia

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 12:16	speaking of total romantics, this is WOR friends, in New York. . .

Salutes

A Salute to. . .

• Tashikaka Kalahara a dentist in Japan saves 54,000 teeth

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 12:40	Eastern Airlines
• 13:46	Rosetta
• 17:00	Magnavox

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:12	When The Saints Go Marching In

Needs to be ID'd
Cheap guitar music

Callers

Caller	Time	Notes
• Takes caller who saw the Fisherman's World show on Saturday	15:53

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
	• Herb Squire

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Category	Date	Title	Comments	Time
• Travel		Trip to Africa		[ 01:38; 02:48 ]
• Television		Fisherman's World		[ 09:10 ]

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	February 19, 1969 Recno: 7430	Ballon Ride in PA	Original Airing

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