5 RARE Cookbooks Volumes 4-8, 1945-1950
"Another Year With Your Neighbor Lady"
WNAX Yankton, South Dakota and Sioux City, Iowa
Handsomely protected in a hardcover book, each issue is removable.
Rare early volumes, no other copies available on any internet site.
Condition:Volumes 4, 5, and 6 are Very Good, Volume 7 is Good, has taped repaired tears on both covers, Volume 8 is Acceptable, lacks rear cover and is unfortunately missing most of the last pag.
Wynn Speece
Your Neighbor Lady
"Hello Good Friends"...Wynn Speece, WNAX Neighbor
Lady Passes Away at 90 Radio pioneer Wynn Speece, known for more than
six decades as “The Neighbor Lady,” died Monday, October 22, 2007 at a
Yankton hospital at the age of 90.
As “The Neighbor Lady,” Speece shared recipes, household tips and personal anecdotes with radio listeners.
Speece, a Marshalltown, Iowa, native, started WNAX in 1939. Her program
started two years later and continued until December 2005.
In 64 years of broadcasting, Speece was welcomed into the homes of
homemakers and farm wives throughout the five-state area covered by
WNAX. She offered helpful household hints, and her signature was the
recipes she shared with her listeners.
Through the years, Speece has made numerous personal appearances,
written a number of cookbooks and become a household icon in the area.
Speece began working at WNAX shortly after graduating from Drake University with a degree in theater.
“I was hired not as an air person but I did book work for two years,”
she said in a 2005 interview. “I think they used those two years to
check on me, and then in 1941, they asked me to do a show about recipes
and decided to call me the Neighbor Lady.”
In the 2005 interview, Speece said her career was more of a joy than a job because of those who listened to her show.
“It was one of those lifetime things that was so satisfying and such a
pleasure to do,” she said. “I reached out to so many different people
and made a lot of personal contacts. I went to different organizations
and talked with people throughout the five-state area. It was very
satisfying work through all the years.”
WNAX (570 AM) is a
radio station broadcasting a
News/Talk format. It is licensed to
Yankton, South Dakota.
Due to the flat landscape of the Upper Midwest and its location near
the bottom end of the AM band, the station's 5,000-watt signal covers
large portions of South Dakota,
Nebraska,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Minnesota,
Missouri and
North Dakota. Besides
Sioux Falls (its "home" market) and
Sioux City, it can be heard clearly in
Omaha,
Lincoln and
Des Moines. Under the right conditions, it can be heard as far south as
Kansas City and as far north as
Fargo.
The station is currently owned by Saga Communications.
History
WNAX signed on the air in 1922. The call-letters represented "North American radio eXperiment."[1]
The radio station launched the careers of many stars, both local and national. Starting in the late 1920's, Lawrence Welk spent a decade performing daily without pay on WNAX. In 1939, Wynn Hubler Speece
started her radio program and became known regionally as "Your Neighbor
Lady." Speece was still continuing to do her Marconi Award winning
broadcast more than sixty years later when WNAX celebrated its
eightieth anniversary in 2002. Other well-known regional radio
personalities from WNAX have included Norm Hilson, Whitney Larson,
"Happy" Jack O'Malley, Bob Hill, Ed Nelson, George B. German and the
hillbilly performers on the WNAX Missouri Valley Barn Dance show.[2]
In October 2005, Speece announced her retirement after almost 66
years of continuous broadcasting. She died on October 22, 2007, at 90
years old. [3]
In 1983, a fire destroyed the main WNAX building. All of the
station's historic live recordings as well as thousands of records were
also destroyed. The staff of WNAX went to the station's transmitter
site and continued broadcasting. Eventually, the station recovered when
a new building was constructed on Highway 50 in Yankton.
In 1942, the station built a 283.2 metres tall tower at Yankton, which was the tallest radio broadcasting tower at the time. [4]
Although WNAX's glory days were before the time of television, the
radio station continues to broadcast during the twenty-first century in
spite of competition from both television and the internet.
Today, WNAX continues many of the traditions started in 1922 with frequent news, sports, weather and farm market updates.
The station continues to be affiliated with CBS Radio, an association that began in the late 1920s.
WNAX is also the flagship for South Dakota State University sports. WNAX also carries Minnesota Twins baseball.
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