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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #414
590 FOREVER REWIND!!!!! NOT THE ORIGINAL SENSATIONAL 7!!!! BUT CLOSE. THIS WAS A POSTER FROM 1959. THIS IS WHAT FOLLOWED IN THE MID '60s. When I posted 590 Mighty Memory # 416, I had said that the...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #413
WARM’S LANDMARK CHURCH One of the little known stories of the Mighty 590 WARM is the association it had with a Roman Catholic Church in Avoca. When WARM moved from Scranton to that storied building in...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #412
WARM IMAGES Every day I try to listen to the Mighty 590 and every day I have to give it up. The signal in Wilkes Barre is pretty bad but the memories of WARM still stay stronger than ever. Images...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #411
THE BEATLES AND WARM This week marks the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Beatles to America. And WARM was one of the first radio stations to get in on the excitement. WARM first educated...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #410
RON ALLEN AND JIM FREGOSI The late Ron Allen on Opening Night in 1989 at Lackawanna County Stadium. (Photo: Andy Palumbo.net) The late Jim Fregosi. (Photo: Philadelphia Phillies). THE TOP OF THEIR GAME...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #409
LETTER FROM HARRY WARM's Harry West. (Photo: 590 Forever archives). WARM’s Harry West took a little detour in the late 60s and early 70s. Harry went to KQV Radio in Pittsburgh but by his own admission...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #408
THE WOODSMAN ON THE RADIO Tom Woods then. Tom Woods now. WARM's Tommy Woods will be back on the radio this Friday night as a guest on the Beatledd Radio hour on WRKC FM, 88.5 on your dial. The...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #407
LETTER FROM LENNY When I was writing my Rock and Roll column for the Sunday Dispatch, and doing some promotion work for a record company, I kept in touch with Len Woloson for help in getting records...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #406
ANOTHER WARMLAND MAYOR??? Former WARMland personality Tommy Woods in the back seat in Wilkes Barre's 34th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Woods was Honorary Mayor for the day, Mayor Carl Kuren is in...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #405
PEARLY WHITES AND WARM Okay, how does a radio station in Wilkes Barrie Scranton get involved in tooth whitening? One word: advertising. Since WARM was the dominant station in the Wilkes Bare/Scranton...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #404
TOM AND FRAN AT 50 Our congratulations to Tom Woods and his lovely wife Fran on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. These two crazy kids were married when Tom was a personality on the Mighty 590...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #403
GOOD FRIDAY AND WARM It is but a distant memory. Years ago on Good Friday stores would close. TV's were turned off. Radios too. But WARM Radio promoted a 3 hour devotional solemn program in the mid 60s...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #402
WARM AND THE RED BARONS Tonight marks the 25th anniversary of the first game at Lackawanna County Stadium featuring the Red Barons vs. the Tidewater Tides. With baseball and now two stadiums being here...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #401
RESIDUALS OF WARM FAME Being a member of the lineup of the Mighty 590 WARM Radio in the 60s was a lot of fun but also a great deal of work. Disc jockeys worked a six day week but one perk was the extra...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #400
VOICES IN THE NIGHT Keystone College Observatory. (Photo: Keystone College EDU) One of the most popular overnight disc jockeys and radio hosts on WARM was a fellow named Scott Arthur. Arthur had an...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #399
SCOTT ARTHUR Former WARM broadcaster Scott Arthur. (Photo: LinkedIn). Scott Arthur started out on the Mighty 590 as an overnight disc jockey. Arthur turned the overnight show into a mecca for people...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #398
MY DAD AND WARM RADIO My father, Stephen "Jake" Yonki, circa 1940. Today is Father’s Day and my dad was a regular listener to WARM. One of his biggest thrills was when he actually got to go to the...
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WARM’S NEW SOUND If you are tuning in to the Mighty 590, you will notice that the True Oldies Channel is no longer on the station. The TOC was really good but the drawback was that the only announcer...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #396
2014 POCONO DRAG LODGE REUNION Another Pocono Drag Lodge Reunion has come ad gone and once more the Reunion was a good time had by all. Pocono Drag Lodge was an entity in the 60s that was a huge part...
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590 MIGHTY MEMORY #395
END OF ANOTHER WARM SUMMERThe stage at Rocky Glen Park and the prices for rides. Radio was part of many great summers for teenagers of a certain age. As the summer of 2014 ends, we look back on the...
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