Re: [IRCA] What a treasury! & Re Little Egypt

[Joseph Miller]

Hi John


Re: It was like "going down to Egypt." Cairo, where the Ohio and Mississippi 
Rivers met, was expected to be one of the greatest American cities, and several 
other little towns in Southern Illinois were named after Egyptian cities -- 
such as Karnak and Thebes. 


I saw a program on the History Channel about 6-8 months ago where they 
mentioned Little Egypt. Had to deal with early explorers if I remember 
correctly.


But getting back to the White's Radio Logs, I bought my first one in 1968. 
There was a drugstore about a half mile from my high school and I'd walk over 
there on my lunch hour to purchase the latest copy.  Rather interesting, they 
are exactly as I remember. I even submitted a station change once and was 
listed in one of their magazines, though sadly, not one of the ones listed on 
the website. Also interesting was to see some of the names of people that I 
currently know

Memories!

73 de Joe Miller, KJ8O, Troy, Michigan (Then Lansing, MI)
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Re: [IRCA] What a treasury! & Re Little Egypt

[John Callarman]

The legend in Southern Illinois was that when Illinois was first established, 
its breadbasket was in the deep southern end of the state, and up in the cold 
and frozen north, that city that had little chance of succeeding, namely 
Chicago, to get food, they had to go south to Southern Illinois. It was like 
"going down to Egypt." Cairo, where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers met, was 
expected to be one of the greatest American cities, and several other little 
towns in Southern Illinois were named after Egyptian cities -- such as Karnak 
and Thebes. The high school in Tamms, Illinois, close to Cairo, uses as its 
sports knickname the Egyptians. Shawneetown was thought to be the eventual 
capital of Illinois, but that didn't happen.

I'm about to copy the Fall 1947 White's Radio Log, which was my guide when I 
first started "fishing" on October 27, 1947. If I remember correctly, my local 
commercial station at the time, KRUL, was too new to have been in that edition 
of the log, and it was so strong, I thought it must be more powerful than the 
other 250-watt stations on 1340 ... I listed it in my log as 50,000 watts! 

QRM, Krum TX 

(63 years ago, KRUL; now KRUM)

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