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Phone Messages
By Paul Mason FotschSociety & Culture
Phone Messages episodes
- 61 Lawrence Welk (Chris 11)Lawrence Welk was born in 1903 in Strasburg North Dakota. His TV show started on a local L.A. station in 1951 and ended on PBS in 1982. After that, reruns continued to be shown on PBS hosted by Welk and after his death in 1992, by former cast members.8 min
- 60 This is Tauneel (Tauneel 2)A parent's love can sometimes be expressed by saving old issues of the Grey City Journal.8 min
- 59 Vacuum Maintenance (unknown)These days it is difficult to find shops that repair vacuum cleaners, but Repair Cafés have opened around the world to rebuild a culture of conservation.7 min
- 58 The Reg (Julia 1)The University of Chicago's Regenstein Library was constructed on the former location of Stagg Field in 1970.9 min
- 57 Turn Turn Turn (Chris 10)The lyrics to Pete Seeger's Turn Turn Turn come from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In 1965, the Byrd's version of the song topped the charts.9 min
- 56 Jimmy's (James 7)Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap opened in 1948. It was one of many Hyde Park bars at the time, and one of the few to survive urban renewal.7 min
- 55 A Child of the Sun (Grandma 2)Frank Lloyd Wright designed the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland Florida. He called it a Child of the Sun.6 min
- 54 Sixteen Candles (Chris 9)Sixteen Candles, performed by the Crests, became a doo-wop hit in 1958. The song's sentimentalism is ideal for a punk guitar to rip apart.6 min
- 53 Hanah Jon Taylor (James 6)In the 1980s, the superb flute and saxophone player Hanah Jon Taylor performed regularly at the Cove and the Hotel Del Prado in Hyde Park. In the 1990s he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where in 2019 he opened Cafe Coda.6 min
- 52 Tauneel Again (Tauneel 1)In the late 80s, The Grey City Journal staff also produced The Chicago Literary Review, a quarterly supplement to the Chicago Maroon.5 min
About Phone Messages
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This podcast will play and discuss old phone answering machine messages. In the late 1980s, while living in Chicago, I selected certain messages to be duplicated using a double cassette recorder. Playing them back leads me to explore the intersection of personal history and the larger social and cultural context through the lens of an outdated technology.
New episodes will be posted Sundays.