Christmas Through the Years in Chicago
The end of the year is always a time for reminiscing. These podcasts are based on the long-running radio series I used to do in Chicago. They are called Christmas Past and concern the news, the music and the sweetness of Christmastimes in the past.
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Episodes
5 days ago
5 days ago
Mayor Washington plays Santa Claus for hospitalized children; a two-week long teachers' strike ends; the Cubs are in court over an issue that cost them home field advantage in the baseball playoffs; Cabbage Patch dolls and those new IBM "PC"s might have been Christmas gifts...
The Christmas book Season of Joy is still available. Contact benesjim35@gmail.com for details...
Saturday Nov 09, 2024
Saturday Nov 09, 2024
Unusually warm weather, a thermal inversion and a new law resulted in hundreds of emergency calls to the Chicago Fire Department. Kenny G was out with a best-selling holiday album called "Miracles," and a Chicago army sergeant actually did enjoy a miracle on Christmas.
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Although the United States is not yet involved in World War I, there are repercussions in Chicago. Preacher Billy Sunday, the former ballplayer, is packing them in and railing against the evils of Chicago. Auto drivers get notice that in the new year, they won't have to be hauled off to a police station for a traffic offense.
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 27, 2024
A sunny economic outlook in December, but tensions were rising in Europe. Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande were popular. Some scientists were warning that a kiss might be dangereous.
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
The murder trial that would inspire a hit TV series and a movie, a plan to deck Chicago, not with holly, but with expressways, the Democrats decide to dump the incumbent mayor and nominate Richard J Daley for the job, and the Drifters and Eartha Kitt.
PLEASE NOTE: All of these podcasts stem from a radio series turned into a book, Season of Joy of which I still posess numerous copies. If you're interested, the price is $15 and contact me at benesjim35@gmail.com.
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
Saturday Jul 06, 2024
A Christmas cold wave, the world's tiniest baby, a high school boy's efforts to get treats to the American troops in Iraq, the Great Chicago Fire Sale and Dione Warwick's new Christmas album.
PLEASE NOTE: All of these podcasts stem from a radio series turned into a book, Season of Joy of which I still posess numerous copies. If you're interested, the price is $15 and contact me at benesjim35@gmail.com.
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
A new dance craze is sweeping the nation, but it doesn't sit well with a preacher in Indiana. Then there's the matter of libations during this Prohibition Christmas season.
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
An armistice in Korea, money swirling along the train tracks, Jack Benny goes Christmas shopping.
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Because of the energy shortage, even Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was affected. Watergate was closing in on President Nixon, and Merle Haggard wondered if we'd ever make it through December.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
A very special Christmas in Chicago: the city lights its first municipal Christmas tree, a 35-footer donated by the land-based partner of Captain Herman Schunemann, who with his crew on the Christmas Tree Ship, died when it sank in Lake Michigan in 1912.
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