[JPL] Worst Radio Moment

[Larry Appelbaum]

This story goes back about 20 years ago when our station was in D.C.'s Chinatown, on the second and third floors above Jenk's hardware store. One Sunday afternoon I was on-the air (and the only one in the station) when I heard some noise out by the elevators. When I went to investigate, the door leading to the studios closed and locked behind me! After frantically searching for a way in, I ran outside and around the corner to the hardware store and somehow convinced the employees (who spoke very little English) to let me borrow a ladder. From the ladder I managed to climb up to the broken fire escape and then into one of the station's office windows, which fortunately was not locked. I got back to the studio to find the stylus playing the label of a Don Pullen record. Every phone line line was lit up with listeners (and some fellow programmers) calling to alert me that the record was over!

Larry Appelbaum
WPFW-FM
Washngton DC

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