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I suspect from the signatures that this was a farewell picture to Bill (the fella under the wall speaker) from his colleagues, with phone numbers to 'keep in touch', which would put the signatures (if not the photo) around 1958. (The photo itself looks like it was taken a few years before that). One person Dad did keep in touch with was Gord Atkinson, who would later become ... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Next, Joyce with her mother Margaret and step-dad Harry Wournell at their home in Nova Scotia.
Have they just returned from church? Or celebrating Joyce's 21st birthday? Both?
On the back there's a note: "The Three Musketeers". Judging from the date the roll was processed, March 1955, this was around the time Joyce was getting ready to leave the nest and head out to Hamilton, Ontario to find work. Did she already have the job at CHOK lined up? I don't know.
Speaking of jobs, here's a picture of Joyce spinning platters at a radio control desk.
It doesn't look like CHOK's control room, and the calendar says March 1954 (the picture might even have been taken on her 20th birthday). Was this in Halifax?
Both of these photos were prior to he dental changes that happened when she was 21,was the one playnng a record possibly doing sound?
ReplyDeleteDoing sound where? The Players' Guild? I don't think so. What year did mom move to Hamilton?
ReplyDeleteThat's not an ordinary record player. That's a special turntable only used in radio stations. Notice the two tonearms. One for 7" and 12" records, and a second for the special 16" radio transcription records. These records were how syndicated radio shows were sent to radio stations, before reel-to-reel tape machines started to appear in the early 1950s.
The platters on these turntables were huge. You can see Mom playing one of these transcription records in this picture.
It doesn't seem likely that the Guild or a high school auditorium would have such an expensive, heavy and specialized piece of gear.