Dick Williamson

Old Time Radio has been among Dick Williamson's life - long interests. He grew up with it in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s and was fascinated by every aspect of the amazing technology that allowed a person to be heard by unseen millions around the world. 

Dramatic radio, which came to be called "The Theatre of the Mind," always held a deep fascination for young Williamson. The vivid mental pictures inspired by The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Captain Midnight, Henry Aldrich and many, many others etched permanent images in the young man's mind; images that today he shares with a growing OTR* radio audience that tunes in for more Radio Memories every Sunday evening.

From the time at age 11 when he hooked up a secret pillow speaker to listen to Inner Sanctum Mysteries (much to the displeasure of his mother) to the time at age  13 when he repaired the family's only radio  after his father  had said  that repairs would have to wait until payday, to his days at DeVry Technical Institute (the radio school founded by Dr. Lee De Forest himself), to his Army days when he taught radio theory and repair at The Southeastern Signal School, to his college days when he was manager of the college radio station, to the 1970s when he began collecting Old Time Radio programs, to 1991 when his  Radio Memories  program first  went on the air, radio has been an important part of his life.