95 years ago today, WSB went on the air. Bebe Meaders of Marietta, who is also 95, has been with them from the very beginning.
"WSB and I were born the same year, 1922," said Meaders. Meaders got her first taste of radio by listening at her grandparents' house. Sunset Club and Amos and Andy she remembers well and somber day on December 7th, 1941. They had just finished their Sunday dinner.
"We had the radio on. The New York Philharmonic was playing. It was just. It was just a surreal moment really and truly. The broadcast came through that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. I went to work on Monday morning and it was really as though the world had changed. I mean, people were just going around with a different resolve I would say. And a lot of the men who had been serving in the Reserves in uniform. It was just as I've said a different feel, just like the world had changed, and it had," said Meaders.
Meaders says she and her family would gather around the radio to listen to Sunset Club, Amos and Andy, and of course, the news.
"We did hear Roosevelt's inaugural speech when he made the famous statement: 'The only thing to fear is fear itself.' Then of course, during his administration, they had the fireside chats and that was always something that brought people together," said Meaders.
Meaders says listening to WSB turned her into a news junkie.
"They just became a part of our life really because we had no t-v. (Who could've imagined?) I don't know, the radio was just central to us. People, it seemed to me, were just really hungry for the type of news and programs that were being presented," said Meaders.
Meaders says she still wakes up to radio and goes to bed with it.
"Well you know, at 95, I have less and less interaction with the public at large. And so sometimes I look at things strictly from my point of view or from my age; and to me it's still a very important aspect of our culture," said Meaders.








