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Toby Me & the Wonderment of KNDE

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  Toby Me & the Wonderment of KNDE Drake M. Davis Professor Miriam Smith BECA 200 17 September 2016 Toby Me and the Wonderment of KNDE Searching through the Internet for information on my one-time mentor, Toby Browning, produced a plethora of information. Never heard of Toby? I’ve got news…we all have had Toby in our homes, cars, and devices over the years, unquestionably. Southern Californians are particularly well poised to take in Browning’s work as he is  The Voice  of CBS Television in Los Angeles and sister station KCAL. The search for documentation of Toby’s career starts at none-other than our old  alma mater , Rio Americano High School in Sacramento. Toby had been with a group of students who were at the time juniors and seniors when I came in as a freshman in the Fall of 1974; Browning and a core-group of four or five others were responsible for creation of our high school radio station under the guidance of legendary Teacher Charles Gebhardt who create...

The Most Viewed & Popular Post: Trippin Back to the Gravel Pits & The Swimming Capitol of the World

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  https://www.simplertimeandplacethebesteraever.com/2018/09/ Trippin' Back to the Gravel Pits and the Swimming Capitol of the World Hi Everyone, I am back into the old work at the library past midnight--several nights a week--grind. I have vowed to keep on blogging before most every show this semester, so let us see what can be conjured-up as a story from the era described as:  Your favorites from the mid-to-late-sixties through 1980 all set to the soundtrack of growing-up  tale -end boomer in both Northern and Southern California! Every time I head back to or through Sacramento, I almost always make a brief stop at the old homestead located at 1606 McClaren Dr. in Carmichael for several reasons. First, the family dog [Let us just call him  Scruffy  in case I forget a password and end-up needing a "What was the name of your first family pet?" type password recovery question] rests in peace there. The old boy is buried behind the levee that cut the yard into a fr...