If
you would like to renew your membership or join our club, please download
and fill out the membership form. Member benefits include inclusion
on our email list, club newsletter, monthly meetings, notification of
events and general support of our hobby. HLARA Membership Form (PDF 25K)
Tulsa
World Article
The Tulsa World newspaper ran an article on
the club on August 3, 2005. You can download the article by
clicking on the following link: Tulsa
World Article (PDF 489K)
Sample Newsletter
Click on the following link to see a sample
of our quarterly newsletter. The newsletter is provided to all
members via email and includes club news, events, reports from local
events, hints on how to repair radios and amusing stories about what we
do as collectors - all brought to you with color photographs.
The Heartland Antique Radio Association,
Incorporated is a not for profit organization incorporated in the state
of Oklahoma. The club has been granted tax exempt status as
outlined in the following document:IRS Tax Exempt Status (PDF
58K)
2008 Christmas Radio Give Away
Dan Weilacher has organized fixing up 5 tube radios
and donating them to Joe Riddle's old time radio show which airs on KRMG
AM 740 at 6pm - 9pm Sundays. These radios will be given away to
kids which listen to the show. For
more information click here (PDF 63K). The following report was
filed by Dan after he was on the air...
In the month of December vintage radios were given away as prizes on
740 KRMG radio on Joe Riddle’s Community Care Radio Theatre. HLARA
furnished the radios and Joe was very cordial in giving the club
outstanding exposure on the air and allowing us to spread our love of old
radios. I was invited up to the station, radios under my arm, and was
given a full tour. Listeners were asked to e-mail Joe and tell them why
they would like an old radio. Joe would then call them and interview them
for the show and tell them they won a radio. It was a lot of fun for all
involved, one nice winning lady was crying when we told her she won and
my eyes were welling up at that point too!
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I joined Joe again for his special
holiday broadcasts. My whole family joined me on the 24th and Joe even
asked my son Raymond what he wanted for Xmas on the air. On January 16th
I talked to Joe on the phone and he informed me that a very big, little
listener of his show would be at the station helping him co-host. He said
he met her a while back when she called in to request a particular show.
We decided it would be great to give her an old radio that evening for
her very own. I remembered I had a brown bakelite Zenith Consoltone radio
in the attic and I quickly dug it out. Three hours later it had new
capacitors, a tightened dial cord, a polished case and a new power cord.
The radio played great to start with so I was lucky. That
night, 7 year old Elizabeth was given the Zenith and was a very happy and
excited young girl as witnessed in these pictures (click here). Joe
also inundated her with many OTR cd’s to take home and listen to. Lucky
kid! Elizabeth is a very sharp little girl with a great sense of humor
and a joy to be around. Her father is doing a wonderful job of raising
her.
I would like to thank Andy Anderson, Curt Lutz, Steve Plank, and Bob
Shindhelm for their generous donations.
HLARA and I personally want to thank Joe Riddle for the fine
experience you have afforded to our association and to myself. Joe is one
outstanding, kind, dedicated person and we are very lucky to have him in
our community.
