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CFTR/CHFI Control Room, 1972
A friend of mine we used to call "Big Al" sent me this pic of what's labelled the CFTR/CHFI control room back around 1972. (I'm honestly not sure if this was the AM or the FM.) But it would have been around the time the station was in the basement of 13 Adelaide St. E., several years before both were moved to the 13th floor of 25 Adelaide St. E.
In an all digital era, no radio studio looks like this anymore Love those Ampex reel-to-reels. They were workhorses and they lasted forever. And look at all those carts!
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It will forever be 9 minutes after 3... I'm assuming PM.
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Literally frozen in time.
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I see the board also provides a helping hand ? 
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Kind of a claustrophobic control room. Those McCurdy boards were excellent, came out around 1967, were easy to operate and versatile. I used them at three different stations in my career and always worked like a charm. Built and engineered in Toronto.
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We also had the McCurdy boards at my old university radio station, CITR.
Plus of course the Ampex tape decks.
When I started working full time in radio I was amazed that the same equipment was being used in commercial radio stations.
And, not pictured here were the ubiquitous patch cord panels where we had to physically switch from one piece of equipment into the other through the board.
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Who's the jock?
"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
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Those Ampex 440's and McCurdy consoles are/were rock solid and would probably survive a massive explosion! Used the 440's in college... they still had a couple in service at Loyalist in the early 2000s, along with a Scully, a couple of Tascams, and several Revox PR99s.
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Dale Patterson wrote:
Who's the jock?
Not sure. He's I.D.'d in the pic only as "Brian."
There is another pic taken at the same time that lists the guy in the photo as "George Jordan," although I have to admit I'm not sure who he was. 
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I found one more. And hey - no eating in the control room! Ron Turnpenny will have a fit!
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