Hi, my name is Michael, I am the editor of Cincinnati Radio and TV Legends. I started in radio with a co-op group while in high school in 1965 through an Explorer Group at WSAI 1360 and later when WEBN was being constructed in 1967 was hired by Frank Wood Sr. to help and assist in the construction of his project. I remember soldering components to audio channels and coaxial terminations in a rush to get WEBN on the air. I was there the day a flatbed truck brought the transmitter from Collins and lowered it with a crane into the little building built (before the roof went on).  I maintained the transmitter with a 3rd class FCC license at the time to oversee the stations automation of Jazz and Classical music. I assisted his son Bo in the Jelly Pudding project. The very beginning of a whole new era. Beatles, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Joan & Joni, Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, Moody Blues, etc.  I could go on with that list for a long time.  I would maintain the 5 Skully tape playback machines for Mr. Wood's All Night Jazz.  Miles, Stan, (oh I'm sorry, I won't start that again.  After all that.....  I attended the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory  of  Music in 1970 for a 2 year course and Xavier University in 1972  in Radio/Television Production. I worked WCET's Action Action for 3 years as a production assistant and camera man.  

This is old WEBN studios at 1050 Considine Avenue located in Price Hill (later referred to as Price's Mountain). Much talent passed through these doors. Originally Mr. Wood, Sr. applied for WBFC as his call letters (Brute Force Cybernetics) from the FCC. He of course wound up with WEBN.

Geoffrey Nimmo 2008

"The Captain"

Geoffrey is doing very well living up in farm country in Lebanon, OH practicing meditation, listening to Classical and Jazz music. He has much wit and knowledge concerning the world as we know it and refuses to give up.

1211 Wareham in Mount Adams Cincinnati,OH

This house was a community of friendship where people came together and enjoyed life 

I will never forget the 2nd day I met Geoffrey because this time it became a bonding friendship, I was living at 1211 Wareham in Mount Adams in Cincinnati, OH. I was working the midnight to 6 AM shift at WEBN FM. I came home parked my car, walked toward my house and found a motorcycle laying on it's side in front of the entrance of my house. I immediately picked it up and set it on it's proper stand because there was oil spilling out of it's engine. As I proceeded through the living room, I found a trail of clothes. 1st there were a pair of black biker type boots followed by a pair of socks and a pair of Levis Jeans. Then comes a pair of Fruit of the Loom men's underwear and a woman's bra and panties. I followed this path which led to the underside of the dining room table. Geoff and his friend were asleep totally naked and I just walked away laughing.

1247 St. Martins Place in Mount Adams

After about a year, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park decided they wanted to buy 1211 Wareham for visiting actors and actresses to stay during their performances while in town. Obviously we had to move. We just moved to the bottom of Paradrome hill to 1247 St. Martins Place next door to Popeye Maupin, a bald, portly, black blues/jazz singer who used to perform and hang with John Lennon. There was myself, Bev, her sister Sharon, Jay, Charles, Jennifer and of course Geoff. Crazy Dave didn't move with us I think because it turned out being very crowded with not much privacy. One nice thing was it had a beautiful view of the Ohio River.

I really don't remember dates, but I do recall not living there very long. Most people went their own way and Geoff and I met up with Jim Tarbell then the owner of the Ludlow Garage and he just so happened to have a couple rooms for rent in a mansion in North Avondale. Pure Prairie League was moving out.  Well we certainly took him up on the offer. Mount Adams started becoming semi-commercial anyway and the rent was going up.    

948 Dana Avenue in North Avondale

2628 MARYLAND AVE in Price Hill

"Never place a period where God has placed a comma"

~ Gracie Allen

When we returned, we got together with Charles sister Eileen and drove out to Southern California to visit Charles and Jennifer. Very interesting trip indeed. Sher and I became united as one in marriage in the Colorado Rockies with every color in the spectrum surrounding us with the Sun in full shine upon our event.    

Sher and I came back to Cincinnati and nested ourselves in an apartment on the Westside of Cincinnati. In August of 1974 we gave birth to our beautiful daughter Michelle. To be honest with you, it was so good to get away from the hussel bussel of communal living. Believe me, I am not saying anything derogatory about any of my friends that I shared living space with. I Love You All. 

After getting out of radio I tried various other jobs such as the trucking industry (yuk), energy consultant and then back into radio at WNKR in Falmouth, Ky.  I became an amateur radio operator in 1972 as WB8UNG and still hold that license. I talked to people all over the world and had fun doing it.  Today I can do that on my cellular phone.  Same thing only different.  I was into ARP Net, Pine and Packet (AX.25) networking wireless.  I was also into RTTY (radio teletype), high speed ASCII.  When I started in communications, we ran 60 bps.  I am up to 5.5 mbps on my DDSL connection over the internet.  I started on an Apple II and both Commodore's 20 and 64. 

I worked in telecommunications 25 years for Information Systems and as the Manager of Information Systems. We were a Healthcare, Telephony and Computer Networking Company.  

I was terminated December 15, 2006 over buyouts and outsourcing.

Well after all theses years, Geoffrey Nimmo remains a very true friend. Crazy Dave is still crazy after all these years. He is an over the road truck driver. Charles is still around, he just returned a couple years ago from Southern California and is retired.

And needless to say my "Sher Bear" who is my best friend of all after 36 years of marriage.