December 1960


And, meanwhile, down in Autauga County......



This was two years before the introduction of Punchy, a mascot
who would truly teach us the meaning of the word "HIT."

"Nothing does like 7-UP!" --Freshup Freddie

Mr. Kringle's last stop, obviously, was Huntsville.  There, city officials talked him into trading in that decrepit old sled of his...


So, if the C in WBRC meant "Companionship", did that mean the A in WAPI stood for "Alone"??

Why, of course not!  This, too, is "companionship"!  I'd give anything to go back in time to Christmas Eve 1960, and listen to a schedule like this.  Dave Campbell reading "A Christmas Story" - that alone is worth the price of admission!

As for "Christmas Monitor" - well, that was a class act in and of itself.  Since we still don't have a time machine (the R&D department of REWOUND has been hard at work on one since this site's inception!), I can offer the next best thing: 18 glorious minutes of Christmas Eve Monitor from 1961, hosted by longtime NBC newsman Frank McGee (whom, it must be noted, was the first news director of WSFA-TV 12 in Montgomery when it signed on in 1954).

Ahhhh, back in the days when Jerry Lewis actually made one's face make an expression vaguely resembling what I understand is called a "grin."








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