Max Armstrong

Retired Chicago radio-television ag guy. Lifetime Farmall guy.

[Max Armstrong @maxarmstrong]

FIRE THREAT persists. Extinguishers and chisel plows on standby again today. IN farmer I know put out a fire yesterday…this friend in NW Ohio wasn’t as lucky.

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@FredButt6 Maplehurst?

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@2turniphead63 I did see that cheesecake!

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@BuzzPatterson All the time…and add the fact that few hotel showers are well lit.

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@JSShepley Though nothing like Chicago, some of that extends into SW Virginia.

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@falatoradio @theharryshearer I need that, Rascal!

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@hkerkhofs Still suffering jet lag, aren’t you?

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Mr. Samuelson always made sure he was in town to interview on the Blossomtime Festival Queen candidates from Michigan. Pork and beef queens, dairy princesses, honey queen…I got “em. But there was a snowball’s chance my buddy Big O would ever let me go near the Blossomtime girls.

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@davestewart1969 @Chicago_History @WGNRadio That’s not fair, Rascal. You covered them all!

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Who was the guy in the suit being interviewed in a Chicago radio studio in 2001? Extra points: Why was this man very famous in 1972? (Other photo shows him speaking to a huge crowd in Chicago in 1972.) @Chicago_History @WGNRadio

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@74Booger Smooth operator?

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@hayes_mcdole @Chicago_History @WGNRadio Yes Sir.

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@davestewart1969 @Chicago_History @WGNRadio Very good! The pride of South Dakota.

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@FredButt6 @Lois_Lanelois @Chicago_History @WGNRadio Here was Governor Walker at the Illinois State Fair…maybe 1975….and a young farm broadcaster with a mustache behind him.

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@GeitnerSimmons Born and died there, right?

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@FredButt6 @Chicago_History @WGNRadio Hey!! Which one are you talking about?!

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@randy_avera @Chicago_History @WGNRadio Yes, I think the business was in Connecticut?

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@WmGHansen @Chicago_History @WGNRadio Exactly. He was badly defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon.

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@Lois_Lanelois @Chicago_History @WGNRadio And could that be Ted Kennedy between them?

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@Lois_Lanelois @Chicago_History @WGNRadio I believe Dan Walker is there too in that line up.

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@Bellymaven I know that town…some good folks in the fire service around there.