Early AFN

 

Been a long time since we looked at AFN in the 1940s and 50s.  Here's some misc material from Frankfurt and Stuttgart with Bob Smith, Keith Griggs and more.

Early AFN

Early AFN

 

Here's another bunch of surprises from the early years of AFN, in no particular order but probably the 1940s and 50s. 




Early AFN

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AFN 1963

 

Our friend Ernst in Germany grew up listening to AFN.  Some short pieces of tape have survived the years (tape was pretty expensive at the time).  So from Orleans France and The Castle here's AFN

AFN early 1960s

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Early AFN part one

  

In the hustle and bustle of getting something on the air, sometimes it's hard to realize how we touched our listeners.

Karoline gives a perspective:

I was born in 1947 in Berlin, Germany and from the fifth year in school we learned English. And from that year on it was not far away to AFN.

Me, my brother and our friends liked the fresh and cool presentation and of course the music, from the rock 'n roll to the beat period.

I remember especially our ultimate DJ Army Sergeant George Hudak. He made the afternoon show "Frolic at Five" very very well. Later on in the mid sixties Jan Wood made the show, also very well.

We also heard the country-and western music show "Stickbuddy Jamboree" with Bob Burns, that aired from AFN-Kaiserslautern and later from AFN-Stuttgart. I also remember the Saturday afternoon show "Weekend World" from Frankfurt, the "Fitch Bandwagon" and the Music-Show in the evening "Sounds of the Sixties" and "Music in the Air".

Early AFN part one the 1950s

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AFN 1953

Time for another look at AFN in about 1953.

Early AFN part 4

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Early AFN part 3

A while back we receive a lot of unlabeled material from AFN, mostly from the early 1950s and Munich.

Question for our German friends, how has the way you use AFN changed  over the years?

AFN Memories

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Early AFN part 7

AFN Germany was the only network that actively archived over the years.  It's a great thing that these memories aren't lost to the ether.  Let's go to Frankfurt, in the early 50s...

Early AFN Part 7

What an amazing place to have a gig.