{"id":3308,"date":"2015-04-26T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2015-04-29T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:53:20","slug":"the-goldrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?p=3308","title":{"rendered":"The Goldrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Goldrush was possibly the most successful program WIDB ever had.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a live remote from Merlin\u2019s, then the largest bar in Illinois, and put WIDB \u201con the map.\u201d\u00a0 Merlin\u2019s held 1500 people, and it was packed for every Goldrush.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Goldrush Video\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gI3Jm7mm2V0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By 1974, students who had been protesting and rioting less than 20 months before were now streaking naked thru campus and watching \u201cAll my Children.\u201d\u00a0 They were less serious and looking for a good time.\u00a0 It seems ironic from today\u2019s view, but even though most were under 21, there was a yearning for the simpler and more carefree days of our youth in the 60\u2019s, only a few years before.<\/p>\n<p>It is fair to say that the 1960\u2019s generally looked forward to new things, and there was a great willingness to accept change in the name of \u201cprogress,\u201d especially with popular culture and music.\u00a0 But by 1970, nostalgia began to creep in.\u00a0 Radio formats played 50\u2019s hits and called them \u201coldies.\u201d\u00a0 WIDB had a weekly oldies show as early as 1971 and WTAO aired such a show on Saturday afternoons in 1973 and \u201874.<\/p>\n<p>Programmers at WIDB knew there was a great interest in 60\u2019s hits, especially from The Beatles onward.\u00a0 As early as 1971, WIDB had a weekly oldies show.\u00a0 Until fall \u201872, weekends meant every other song was a 60\u2019s hit.\u00a0 In the Fall of 73, WIDB began airing the \u201cSolid Gold Sunday Night Special\u201d where requests were recorded and played with the song.\u00a0 It was very popular.<\/p>\n<p>To capitalize on this appeal, WIDB decided to have a \u201cSock Hop\u201d at the Student Center.\u00a0 Heavily promoted on WIDB as an \u201cOldies dance party,\u201d the \u201cSock Hop\u201d drew 900 to Ballrooms A-D.\u00a0 But, of course, no alcohol could be served.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Goldrush\" href=\"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/the-goldrush\/\">READ THE ENTIRE STORY HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goldrush was possibly the most successful program WIDB ever had.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a live remote from Merlin\u2019s, then the largest bar in Illinois, and put WIDB \u201con the map.\u201d\u00a0 Merlin\u2019s held 1500 people, and it was packed for every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/?p=3308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-widb-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widbnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}