shadowknows69
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Tue Aug-25-09 01:54 PM
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None of you will know who this is, but my heart is broken today. This man was a hero to me. |
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< http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/54796852.html> I had the pleasure and honor of filling in his morning shifts on holidays and the very rare occasion (only when he was forced) that George took a vacation. An old school broadcaster to the last with that "Velvet Fog" voice that every morning you listened to him, it made it just a little easier to get your day going. I am beside myself. Good journey George. They just don't make them like you any more. :cry:
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Tue Aug-25-09 01:57 PM
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1. So sorry, shadowknows69... |
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I may not have known, but, boy... I can empathize.
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Tue Aug-25-09 01:58 PM
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There are some local radio personalities around here that I will miss when they're gone, too.
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Tue Aug-25-09 02:05 PM
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3. I never heard of George but I know how it feels when your mentor goes |
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My old boss died last year at age 80. 99% of what I knew about my job he taught me. He was an activist manager and a profound skeptic of top management and the elected officials that determined policy. When he left after a prolonged pissing contest with his boss, I was promoted to his position. Fifteen years later I also left after a lengthy pissing contest.
In recent years we spent a lot of time sitting in his boat drowning worms, drinking beer and reliving old time experiences. He loved that I named one of my dogs after him.
I miss him every day.
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KatyaR
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Tue Aug-25-09 03:57 PM
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4. It's hard when people like this, who can mean so much in our lives, pass on. |
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You have my deepest sympathies. :hug:
When I was a teenager, I used to pick up a radio station from Minneapolis-St. Paul at night. The announcer was a guy named Franklin Hobbs, and his evening show was "Hobbs' House." He would play big band and jazz music, and a lot of really classic singers like Sinatra, Torme, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, and so on. I loved this music so much as a kid (and still do today), so I was in hog heaven when I could pick up the shows at night. I'd fall asleep with the radio right up to my ear so I could heard everything. Mr. Hobbs even read his own commercials, and he had the most wonderful voice.
Not long ago I found out that he had passed away a while back. Someone had posted mp3s of his last broadcast and the tribute broadcast the station did after he died. It was so wonderful to hear him again, but I was so sad that he was gone. I never knew him, but I felt like I did. It was just another part of my childhood that was gone.
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Tue Aug-25-09 04:11 PM
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5. He was young. RIP George. |
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