Producer Bob Hurd in an unidentified production below with radio actor Don Driver. Hurd is operating the sound effects turntable cart. | Here is KOMO’s Grant Merrill interviewing Washington resident and author Betty MacDonald, about 1945. Her book, "The Egg and I", sold a million copies in its first year. |
ABOVE: a production of the “KOMO Northwest Theater” with Al Morris, Bob Hurd, Lis Leonard, and Dale Smith. RIGHT: Morton Presting announcing a program in the Skinner Building, about 1941. Presting was later a supervisor for Far East programs for the Voice of America, and was responsible for broadcasts to Korea during the Korean War. |
These are four undated candid snapshots of KOMO broadcasts taken by Merrill Mael sometime in the 1940s.