Nostalgia

Not too long ago, one of the oldest grocery stores in town shut down both locations. Now one building houses a new Woods Supermarket... while the other waits.

William Katt was 66 yesterday. You may have to Google his name to find out about the actor that starred in the TV series Greatest American Hero, but did you know he may have been the first Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movie?

We've been hearing it everywhere...on the radio, the television, in the malls and at area shopping centers. It's intermingled into commercials. It's coming at us from 24 different directions. How much more can we handle? For some, it's the most wonderful time of the year for the holiday classics.

TV watchers, young and old, spent countless hours watching Vicki Lawrence in her 11 seasons on "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Mama's Family". Along with her acting she had a #1 hit  in 1972 with "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia".

In the midst of negative news stories and after a terrible week for Dallas, and the nation, there is a nostalgic story that doesn't revolve around death and destruction. Here is that story: For 50 years, an unsolved mystery in St. Louis centered around who piloted the small plane that flew through the legs of the newly-completed Gateway Arch in 1966...

The Townsquare Media staff received an interesting gift on Wednesday afternoon. A listener, Diane Stevens, stopped by the station with a photograph that had belonged to her grandfather.

Growing up we all have memories of neighborhood stores that were our favorites. Maybe it was the neighborhood corner grocery or the store where you went every year to get your mom's birthday present.

The Old House When I was growing up in Sedalia Missouri in the forties and fifties my family like many others, lived in rented houses. It was always exciting as a child to move into a new house with all its hidden secrets to discover, but a little sad too, that we were moving from the old one that had become such a familiar place.  ...

The members of the Missouri legislature will take time Tuesday, January 19 to honor country music legend and Missouri native Leroy Van Dyke.

We have been bringing back some of the voices of Sedalia radio's past in the last week. We have caught up with Tina Sapp, The Treecerman and now we catch up with Bruce, who was the morning show host for KIX 105 and 92.3 Bob-FM from September 2006 until April of 2013.