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  1. In 1961, Tacoma civic leader Bob Corcoran, along with businessman Frank Karwoski, opened a sports supply store in Lakewood. The store later moved to a 6th Avenue location. Joining Corcoran in the enterprise as Vice-President of the company, Tacoma-Seattle TV and radio sportscaster Bob Robertson. Vic Cozzetti was sales manager at the operation.
    During the mid-1960s, Corcoran would broadcast little league slow pitch baseball on Channel 13 from Tacoma’s Heidelberg Park and regional college basketball on Channel 11 with Doug McArthur.
    For a period of time, Corcoran had a midday talk show on 1360 KMO each weekday.
    In 1964, Bob Robertson was calling play-by-play for the PCL Tacoma Giants on Channel 11. In December, Robertson, Corcoran, McArthur, along with John Jarstad, signed on to broadcast 13 University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University basketball games on KTNT 11. The company was Corcoran’s Pacific Northwest Sports Productions.
    In 1964, Corcoran and Vic Cozzetti would broadcast a series of college baseball games from the University of Puget Sound over KTVW 13.
    Corcoran was a booster of the Tyees of Tacoma, a local group playing just for the fun of it. Community donations supported the team and Corcoran, though having no official tie to the Tyees, helped out with supplying uniforms.
    Corcoran’s sports supply store was one of the many sponsors of the yearly Tacoma Salmon Bake at Point Defiance, buying ad space in the newspaper and brochures.

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  3. Emmett Watson/Seattle P-I, June 17, 1971 – Today’s top definition award goes to KAYO’s disc jockey Don Lane defining an elephant.
    “That would be a mouse that was designed by the Pentagon and built by Lockheed on a cost-plus contract.”

  4. Hey Y’all, if you haven’t yet sampled RewoundRadio.Com – with its 24/7 preservation of Top 40 Classic Radio Oldies – today would be a good day! Jon Wolfert is live from the Jingle Palace in Dallas, not only playing the hits, but revealing the early days of radio in Australia and the early PAM’s jingles. ENJOY!

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