Interiors of Radio Station KTBI; ordered by Edith Leib, Douglas Fir Plywood Association. An interior view showing the reception area of the KTBI Radio Station, 810 AM, at their studio and transmitter building on Center Street. Photograph taken just inside the front door looking toward the secretary's counter. The door to the left was the owner Tubby Quilliam's office. Windows on the right are on a slant and look into the master control room which also contained the 1000 watt Western Electric transmitter. The door straight past the half swinging door is the Ladies' Room. TPL-7154 (information supplied by Tom Read from Northwest Pioneer Broadcasters)

Radio stations--Tacoma--1940-1950; Radio broadcasting--Tacoma--1940-1950; Reception rooms--Tacoma--1940-1950; Waiting rooms--Tacoma--1940-1950; KTBI Radio Broadcasting Station (Tacoma);

Interiors of Radio Station KTBI; ordered by Edith Leib, Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A view of the KTBI Radio Station from receptionist's desk looking into the waiting room, another office and the large control room where the 1,000 watt transmitter was located. Warren Reed, later with KTNT and KTNT-TV, is standing at a counter in the control room at the point where the top of the counter lifts to reveal the United Press news ticker. The plywood doors to the storage area under the counter are open showing neatly organized supplies. The desk has a telephone on it, other work related supplies and a typewriter sits in a recessed and lowered area of the desk top. TPL-7156

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This November of 1951 photograph shows disc jockey Steve Sorenson placing a record on a large turntable at KTBI while announcing over the microphone the tune that is about to be played.

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Disc Jockey Steve Sorenson was pictured in November of 1951 with a record in one hand and a large microphone with station letters KTBI prominently displayed, in the other. He was wearing his familiar cap. KTBI was a Tacoma radio station located at 2715 Center Street; it was owned by Tacoma Broadcasters, Inc., and had been on the air since 1941. By 1953, the station's call letters had changed to KTAC, according to that year's city directory. DJ Sorenson would later move to Spokane where he operated a radio and tv parts store. He did not quite give up the occupation of disk jockey as he was involved in a continuous on-the-air broadcast marathon lasting 85 hours, 5 minutes and 20 seconds, happening from his store's display window on March 19, 1956. Photograph ordered by KTBI. (spokaneradio.philcobill.com-small article on Mr. Sorenson)

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Disc jockey Steve Sorenson gets ready to announce a record he is about to spin to the KTBI studio sound equipment. He is shown wearing his trademark cap in this November 16, 1951 photograph.

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McMurtrie's Breakfast Program, KTBI. Fifteen people gather around tables after breakfast wearing Hawaiian shirts, leis, and straw hats for the morning radio program presented by KTBI and Burt McMurtrie. Burt McMurtrie was a commentator for KMO Radio Station in 1951. He had been a reporter with the Tacoma Times before it closed March 1949. Ordered by Burt McMurtrie.

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