Al Agius (turned me on to the Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination."
"Cookie" - Harry Eidelman's odd and funny (unintentionally) brother, who was known on more than one occasion to walk the halls late at night and pop out from behind one of the enormous loud transmitters as one was taking hourly readings in nothing more than a powdered birthday suit.
Gene Page : A Radio legend
Merrel Hansen - a young salesperson, later to become General manager at KSD-FM
Bill (can't remember his last name): Mason remembers he was envious of him because he had a college degree.
Tom (morning man)
"Shaky" Jack Davis
Harry Eidelman's son, (name): a soft-spoken, nice guy.
Gigi McGrath
Rich Vannoy
Rick
Lou Goad: Former midnight man from KSHE
Ed Bench: A great engineer. Because of his love for math and all things technical, Mason almost always befriended the engineers at the radio stations where he worked.
Mason's Memories:
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Taking a large, 6 foot tall "War of the Worlds" monster he got from Peaches record stores and dragging it 40 feet up the on-site broadcast tower and tying it there. Neighborhood residents eventually shot it down, as they did with most tower lights. (with thanks to Neal Strickberger and GiGi for spotting)
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Catching fleas. The station played all of its music from large reel to reel tapes. P.D. Jagger had convinced station ownership that the recording should be done at his house (as the Radio Frequency interference was significant from the on-site transmitters and on-site tower) Mason helped record the music in Jagger's basement - while standing on a rug that was, more than once, infested with fleas courtesy of Jagger's pooches. Mason said he didn't mind, as he got to catch glimpses of Jagger's fairly-hot girlfriend from time to time.
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Everyone getting fired over the course of two days after the station was sold and changed format back to Easy Listening (Mason made the cut until the last day)
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Fixing up/painting the Maplewood (movie) theatre to have a KCFM-sponsored Mark Almond concert there.
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Mason's first caricature as air personality (posted on this site)
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Not quite understanding why Jack Davis's "cough" never went away. "Shaky" repeatedly sent Mason on forays to the drugstore to get him cough syrup with codeine; forays that resulted in Mason signing repeatedly for the medicine. Beloved Davis also was the one who told Mason, when learning he had a new job (next chapter) at KSHE (Davis' former place of employment) , "Make sure you go in the Men's bathroom and look up." A puzzled Mason asked why, and Davis responded, "I used to shoot up in the bathroom and I'd clean out my 'rig" by shooting it on the ceiling!" A horrified Mason eventually did scan the mens' room ceiling, but any evidence had long ago been erased.