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Anybody Want to Try This?

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

With a bizarre hobby comes bizarre stories.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 27, 2015
Length: 06:09
Purchases: 1

Il Barbiere di Madison

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Freeman “Buzzy” Buzzell has been a barber in Madison, Maine for the past fifty-five years, and he keeps at it because he loves his customers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix

Added: May 27, 2015
Length: 06:28
Purchases: 2

Design of the Movie Theater

From: Michael May

Historian Larry May slips into one of his favorite places — the movie theater.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 19, 2015
Length: 08:10
Purchases: 1

Panics, depressions, recessions

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Apr 11, 2015
Length: 01:44
Purchases: 2

Innovation & Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.

Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU

Added: Apr 01, 2015
Length: 38:38
Purchases: 1

Visualize Financial Goals: Achieve Your Dreams

From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio

First, new psychological studies show that visualizing a financial plan will help achieve most life goals. Starting with techniques to help uncover...

Bought by Harford Community Radio and WCWP

Added: Mar 03, 2015
Length: 59:54
Purchases: 2

Life of the Law #50: The Diaper Wars

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

In the 1980's, the world's two largest diaper companies set out to destroy each other, in a patent battle known as the Diaper Wars. The court battl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Feb 10, 2015
Length: 17:55
Purchases: 1

Silicon Valley's Prehistoric Past

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Construction site at the Calaveras Dam in the East Bay hills.

When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...

Bought by KUOW

Added: Jan 12, 2015
Length: 05:50
Purchases: 1

When Ground Zero was known as Radio Row

From: Radio Diaries

For more than four decades, Radio Row it was the largest collection of radio and electronics stores in the world. Then in 1966 the stores were cond...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 18, 2014
Length: 13:55
Purchases: 4

The Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Minneapolis has been a world leader in artificial limb manufacturing. In the early to mid-20th century, farming accidents, flour mill explosions, a...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Nov 06, 2014
Length: 06:14
Purchases: 1

Closing up shop at Roberts Shoes

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: Roberts Shoe Store co-owner Mark Simon holds up a photograph of his father-in-law, Nate Roberts, who founded Roberts Shoes in 1937

Roberts Shoe Store has been a fixture at the corner of Chicago and Lake Streets in Minneapolis for the last 77 years. But this fall, the store will...

Added: Nov 05, 2014
Length: 05:40

Redevelopment on Oretha Castle Haley is Slow but Steady

From: Nina Feldman

Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City has recently seen a lot of redevelopment. Why has it been so hard to bring business back to this bou...

Added: Oct 16, 2014
Length: 05:10

The Clermont Hotel

From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas

Atlanta has plenty of bragging rights (The Olympics, Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-a, the Fox Theatre etc.), but perhaps one of our most iconic treasures is...

Added: Aug 13, 2014
Length: 20:05

All the Presidents' Bankers

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Wall Street during the Panic of 1907, Credit: Wikipedia Commons

From family friends and trusted confidants to the present day, Nomi Prins, journalist and a former managing director of Goldman Sachs, retraces the...

Added: Aug 12, 2014
Length: 29:00

Little 5 Points

From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas

Growing up as a retail pocket to serve Inman Park and Candler Park in the early 1900?s, L5P as it is affectionally known, developed organically. T...

Added: Jul 30, 2014
Length: 16:51

Sweet Auburn

From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas

Caption: Duke Ellington and his band, Credit: Photo by Michael Ricci

Auburn Avenue was at one time known as Wheat Street. In 1893, a group of white citizens went to the city council and petitioned to change the name...

Added: Jul 16, 2014
Length: 23:40

Cook County writer Jim Boyd's history of Hedstrom Lumber, now celebrating its 100th year

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

Hedstrom Lumber Company of Grand Marais is celebrating its 100th year in business. Jim Boyd has written a wonderful history of this resilient compa...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Jul 08, 2014
Length: 20:40
Purchases: 1

The Hotel

From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas

When you imagine the built environment, the places that shape a city's culture, you probably think about stadiums and parks, skyscrapers and museum...

Added: Jun 27, 2014
Length: 15:06

Rogue Traders

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

When one of Wall Streets biggest scams was revealed in a segment on 60 Minutes, viewers were outraged. Front Running. Although it is legal, it’s, a...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jun 06, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Voices from the Oilfields

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Using oral histories of early East Texas oil workers, recorded in the 1950s, we hear about the chaos and excess that accompanied the discovery of oil.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix

Added: Jun 02, 2014
Length: 05:12
Purchases: 2

Rockefeller’s Rose

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Historian H.W. Brands talks with host Ed Ayers about John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil trust, and the contradictory capitalism of the Gilded Age.

Bought by WOUB, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix

Added: Jun 02, 2014
Length: 09:32
Purchases: 3

1973 – The Year That Changed Everything

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

BackStory producer Nina Earnest tells the story of the oil shocks of 1973 and how they continue to shape the world we live in today, with help from...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WABE, Louisville Public Media, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix

Added: Jun 02, 2014
Length: 10:11
Purchases: 5

Ax-Man Surplus: everything AND the kitchen sink

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

The original Ax-Man Surplus has been in St. Paul for more than 50 years, and in recent years more have sprung up around the Twin Cities. Ax-Man sel...

Bought by KSRQ and KVSC