THE RADIO HISTORIAN'S
SAN FRANCISCO PHOTO ARCHIVE

of

NBC San Francisco

(Click on any image to enlarge)
 

West Coast network program lines, 1929 

The Hunter-Dulin Building, 111 Sutter Street - NBC home from 1927-42 

  Gilman

Don E. Gilman, NBC's Western Division Manager 

NBC Orange Network debut broadcast

Debut broadcast of the
NBC Orange Network -
April 5, 1927
Standard on Parade
Scenes of programs originating
from the NBC Studios at 
111 Sutter Street
NBC debut broadcast
Engineers oversee the debut broadcast of the NBC "Orange" Network, April 1927.

View of NBC Master Control Room,
111 Sutter Street
 
  
 

NBC Engineers Pose in the NBC Control Room, 111 Sutter Street, 1938

Del Monte Ship of Joy
Del Monte "Ship of Joy" program,
NBC 1933-34

Stars of the West
"Stars of the West" program, sponsored by Acme Beer, NBC 1933.


111 Sutter
More views of NBC at
111 Sutter Street, 1927
 

The "Announcer's Delight", NBC, San Francisco,
about 1930


Audio consoles at 111 Sutter Street 


NBC Staff in Studio 'A', 111 Sutter Street, 1941

 

 

The First RCA 44A Ribbon Microphones are Installed at 111 Sutter Street 

Transcription room

The NBC transcription room at 
11 Sutter Street



Max Dolin, Music Director at NBC San Francisco 1926-32
 

 

Bill Andrews and NBC Chimes

Bill Andrews and Alice Tyler at the
"Announcer's Delight" control panel.  The automatic
NBC chimes machine has just been installed, 1935.

Another view of Max Dolin and the
NBC studio orchestra, 111 Sutter St.
 

Don Amaizo ad
NBC advertisement for violinist Don Amaizo, who was in reality Max Dolin

Meredith Willson & Orchestra in 111 Sutter Street Studio, 1934 

Broadcast of "Carefree Carnival", Marines' Memorial Theatre, 1936. 

Meredith Willson, Music Director
of Carefree Carnival.
 

Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson, NBC's second
Pacific Coast music director

  

 
Wilda Wilson Church, pioneer radio drama producer, on NBC in 1930's


The Cast of "One Man's Family", broadcasting from Studio "C", 111 Sutter Street
   


Author Carleton E. Morse, reviewing bound scripts of "One Man's Family", 1930's
  

Bernice Berwin, radio actress and 'Hazel' of 'One Man's Family' 

Page Gilman 
Page Gilman played the roll of
Jack Barbour on
'One Man's Family'

Paul Carson, NBC organist, creator of the "Bridge to Dreamland 

Cecil and Sally, radio entertainers at NBC San Francisco 

The Aarion Trio 

Jennings Pierce

Jennings Pierce, NBC announcer

NBC announcers

Some other early NBC announcers

Standard School Broadcast

The Standard School Broadcast, 1940s
 

Joseph Henry Jackson
Joseph Henry Jackson

Page Gilman and Don Thompson
Page Gilman and Don Thompson

Al Pearce
Al Pearce on NBC

Hugh Barrett Dobbs
Hugh Barrett Dobbs,
"Shell Ship of Joy", NBC 1935

NBC Remote Broadcast Truck, outside California Palace of Legion of Honor, 1930's 

NBC Remote Broadcast Truck, 1940's 

NBC remote broadcasts
NBC remote broadcasts

More NBC Remote Broadcasts - 1940's

National NBC network program lines, 1935 and 1937 

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