Tag: 1940s

Time to Celebrate!

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Big news! We reached our goal—thanks to a very generous donation from a kind Cladrite Radio listener that came just before the deadline—so we can all celebrate the fact that the pleas for donations have now come to an end and Cladrite Radio will remain “on the air” for at least another 12 months.

But there are surely a few of you who meant to show your support but just didn’t get around to it. And here’s the thing: As pleased (and grateful) as we are to have reached our goal of $500, another $200 in donations would have allowed us to double our server capacity with Live365, our streaming provider.

Think of all the additional music that would allow us to add to our playlist!

So, in this final (we promise) fundraising announcement, we encourage you to scurry on over to http://www.tinyurl.com/cladrite and give what you can. If we take in another $200, it’ll mean that many more toe-tapping tunes of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s for you to enjoy over the next year.

And if we don’t quite make it to $200, we’ll put the additional money aside toward next year’s contract renewal.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got some celebrating to do, and our four best gals (see below) are growing impatient.

Keep the Music Alive and Streaming!

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We’re about ten or twelve days into our fundraising drive to keep Cladrite Radio alive and streaming; the renewal of our annual contract with Live365, our streaming provider, comes due in mid-April. If we’ve not reached our goal of $500 by the 15th of next month, the best-case scenario is that the number of recordings that we’re able to offer, the range of performance styles and genres of music, the variety of orchestras and vocalists will become much narrower than what you’ve grown accustomed to.

Worst-case scenario? The music will stop altogether.

We recognize that sounds a bit dramatic, but we’re giving it to you straight. Ou budget is very tight this year, and unless you, our listeners, come through for us, a belt-tightening (or worse) will be unavoidable, and there will be less of the music we all love to be enjoyed.

The good news is, a few loyal listeners have come through with contributions—we’re just under 20% of the way to our target of $500—and there’s still time for you, too, to play a role in keeping alive the stream of toe-tapping tunes. Every dollar helps, of course, but we’ve got some enticing premiums to for those who chip in at various levels.

$10 — A ten-spot will bring you a Cladrite Radio magnet for your refrigerator, your office cube, any metallic surface that could do with some decorating.

$25 — Send us twenty-five dollars and we’ll let you assist us in creating an hour of programming on Cladrite Radio: We’ll devote sixty minutes to playing your favorite songs from the Cladrite Era, your favorite artists, and when possible, your favorite songs performed by your favorite artists. And we’ll do our best to schedule that hour of programming in a time slot that suits you, so that you can invite friends, colleagues and family to listen in.

$50 — Slip us fifty bucks, and we’ll send you a Cladrite Radio t-shirt in your size of choice, plus you’ll get to help us create an hour of programming (and what the heck, we’ll throw in a magnet, too).

Don’t wait. Show your support for Cladrite Radio today.





Around the world in living color

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We’ve had plans to share the Charles W. Cushman collection with you for some time, but we kept putting it off somehow.

Lately, though, we’ve seen photographs from the collection featured on a number of other websites, so we figured we’d better act now, before the entire Cladrite community has encountered Cushman’s work elsewhere.

Cushman was an amateur photographer and devoted traveler who resided in Indiana. Late in life, he bequeathed his collection of nearly 14,000 photographic slides to his alma mater, the University of Indiana. And bless their hearts, the good folks at IU have made a substantial portion of the collection—literally thousands of photographs—viewable online (prints can be purchased at reasonable rates, too, which we think is dandy—we’re proud owners of an 8×10 print of the Chinatown shot seen below).

The photographs in the collection were shot from 1938 to 1969, which would make them intriguing to us in any case, but the fact that they’re in color renders them true treasures.

We’re sharing with you some of our favorites from among Cushman’s color images of New York City in the 1940s, but don’t be satisfied by this small offering. Cushman traveled the world, and there are many more of Cushman’s images to be savored at the IU website and on Flickr.