Turntable Pad
date: label: Date made
content: 1953
name: label: maker
content: Columbia Records, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This turntable pad is a black plastic disc with brown synthetic felt top. The disc has a raised 45 rpm record holder in the center, used to keep 45 rpm records from slipping. This turntable pad was sent to WANN (1190) radio station by Columbia records, Inc., in 1953.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>WANN (1190 AM) was a radio station based out of Annapolis, Maryland that primarily served the area's growing African American community. Morris Blum founded it in 1946, and it broadcast to the entire mid-Atlantic region. The station was home to disc jockey Charles "Hoppy" Adams starting in the early 1950s. Adams hosted weekly events at a local African American only beach, Carr's Beach, which were popular with the area's youth population. </p>
label: Description
content: <p>WANN continued to program gospel, rhythm and blues, and public affairs features until 1992 when the station changed to a mainstream country format with the catchphrase “Bay Country 1190.” Around 1998, the station changed ownership and became WBIS, broadcasting a News Talk Information format.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Morris H. Blum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0165.7778
label: accession number
content: 2000.0165
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0165.7778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turntable pad
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 12 in x 1/8 in; 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm x .3175 cm