Direct mp3 download or play: Spot # 1
Spot # 1 Vancouver Island’s largest shopping centre – 2,736 parking spaces, mostly covered!
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Direct mp3 download or play: Spot # 2
Spot # 2 “Shop at any one of the downtown stores displaying the big “D” on the door.”
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Direct mp3 download or play: Spot # 3
Spot # 3 The store of the day: W & J Wilson.
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Direct mp3 download or play: Spot # 4
Spot # 4 Downtown bonus days # 1 – “Victoria has never had it so big.”
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Direct mp3 download or play: Spot # 5
Spot # 5 Downtown bonus days # 2 – “The biggest sale Victoria has ever been party to.”
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The original tape
Here are a couple of views of the radio station where I found this tape. The top is a Google Earth image of the transmitter shack and three antennas of radio station KATD in Collinsville, California. Collinsville is near the Sacramento river delta area, northeast of San Francisco. The bottom image shows the transmitter shack (the small white building behind the trailer) and three antennas to the right. I don’t think the old trailer has any relationship to the radio station. In the middle or late 1970s, a friend of mine had a job checking the transmitter and recording meter readings. In those days, the station was called KKIS (K-Kiss). On several occasions, he invited me to accompany him to this location. One time, either inside the building or outside in a dumpster, there were a lot of open reel tapes. They looked as if they were to be discarded, so I grabbed a bunch of them, and one of them was “Downtown Victoria Spots,” most likely from the early 170s. By the way, two other tapes from this find are featured on Negativland releases. On track 19 (start at 30:31) on the first record, listen for “The office of Civil Defense has issued the following message” from an Emergency Broadcast System tape. On the second Negativland release, “Points,” listen to “A Nice Place to Live.” The voice starting out with “Greetings from the Los Angeles County Fair, etc…” is another one of the tapes from Collinsville.
W & J Wilson Clothing Store featured in spot # 3
A few images of Victoria, BC
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Direct mp3 download or play: Downtown
Lastly, here’s a rendition of “Downtown” by the Ray Conniff Singers.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackLooks like you’ve been doing some serious digging.
Good to see your being productive… this post is a classic. We enjoy your work as we know you do ours… So what would you say if we told you that …We would like to be the official sponsor of The Weatherman?
Is it Collinsville, or Colinsville? Both spellings are listed. Either way, I’m overjoyed to welcome The Weatherman and his faithful flock on over to the Colonville Bible Church. We are a non-denominational church that loves God’s Word and has a burning desire to exalt Jesus Christ in all that we do.
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Pastor Jeremiah Ketchum
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Weatherman, I would love to hear more of these reel to reel tapes. That would be real cool.
That picture with the trailer looks eerily like the final scene in the movie “Seven” however the scene was filmed north of Los Angeles.
Interesting to see the KKIS transmitter and towers. I worked there during the 80’s. Who was the friend who took you for the visit to the transmitter? I made a few trips out there myself.