By Dana Jang, BARHOF Class of 2021 My love affair with radio began long before I ever cracked a microphone. It started in childhood, with a simple crystal radio I built as a Cub Scout. That tiny device—no bigger than…
FROM OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR By Kim Brickman Greetings this final weekend in June! July is next week. This means three very big and important events for CHRS: The Mayor's Annual 4th of July Parade here in Alameda The…
The Sign-off My radio career began in the Summer of 1963 when I attended a broadcast school in San Francisco, and I got my first paying job ($110 for a 6-day week) in February of 1964, at the tender age…
Here are many pictures of the CHRS TV Event on May 23rd. CLICK HERE FOR THE WHOLE EVENT ON YOUTUBE
CHRS MAY GUEST SPEAKERS PRESENTATION "FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLASS"... RADIO ENGINEERS SPEAK Recently CHRS hosted an engineering panel discussion featuring the stories from the people we never hear on the air. But without them there…
Last weekend was the 77th Anniversary celebration of KPFA-FM. A screening of a documentary film was shown to a packed house at the Alameda Theatre followed by the after-party at Radio Central with well over 150 visitors thoroughly enjoying food…
CHRS Our Sound Bites series continued last Saturday and congratulations go out to all our future broadcast/podcast stars. It was great fun seeing our young participants step up to the microphone and record public service announcements for the California Historical…
-- DONATION PROCEDURE -- FROM THE CURATOR Maureen Bourbin Dear Members, Happy March! Spring is fast approaching and we’re doing a little spring cleaning of some of our procedures as we progress toward a productive year for the…
-- NEW EXHIBIT -- HONORING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH By Curator Maureen Bourbin Women’s History Month began in Sonoma, California in 1978 to coincide with International Woman’s Day on March 8. The movement grew, and in 1987, the United States Congress…
-- CHRS LIVING HISTORIES -- GUEST SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS ASK 'DR. HIP' Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld Join us for a conversation with Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, better known to generations of Bay Area listeners as Dr. Hip. In the late 1960s…