Joe Bankhead was there when KBOA went on the air in 1947. One of the original employees. He recently retired (at the age of 92) and set down at his manual upright and banged out seventeen pages of memories about the early days (download PDF). My thanks to Joe (and his son, Jimmy) for allowing us to share them here. You can hear some of Joe’s recollections in his own words (recorded in 1982). [Joe died in March, 2011]