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
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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:
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.
