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Post by oldbeav on Jan 21, 2023 8:59:56 GMT -8
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Post by steinlager on Jan 21, 2023 9:36:47 GMT -8
Grew up listening to the "Schonz". He did it for a long time and he did it well.
RIP.
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Post by beaver94 on Jan 21, 2023 10:29:47 GMT -8
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Post by beavaristotle on Jan 21, 2023 11:15:32 GMT -8
Canzano can be an ass at times, but that is a hell of a article. RIP to a legend
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Post by beaverboilermaker on Jan 21, 2023 11:30:22 GMT -8
Childhood memories.
Takes it through the cyclops at midcourt… on the dribble drive… lickety-brindle up the middle… spins it off the glass… iron that’s all… rebound Lucas kicks it out to Gross… bounce pass to Walton… dishes off to Twardzik… around the horn to Hollins from the coffin corner… RIP CITY!!!
And so many more Bingo-Bango-Bongo plays when radio was all we had.😢 RIP
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 21, 2023 12:10:04 GMT -8
He “Climbed the golden ladder”.
I remember listening to the first season on a transistor radio. Petrie, Schlueter, Ellis, Adelman, Barnett, et al. Hard to believe it’s now 50+ years ago. Schonely was class all the way.
Kind of ironic that Portland’s Bob Blackburn became the legendary radio voice of the Sonics while Seattle’s Schonely became the legendary radio voice of the Blazers. It could very easily been the other way round.
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Post by ag87 on Jan 21, 2023 19:07:03 GMT -8
RIP Bill. I too listened to a lot of games on my transistor after bedtime. This was around 1970-75. My parents were sports fans and made an exception for Blazer games. I met him a couple of times at the Equitable Savings and Loan in Roseburg. He'd come through town once a year and hand out schedules and promote the team. Somewhere I may even have a signed copy of an LP (33-1/3) made after the championship season.
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Post by geosci91 on Jan 22, 2023 8:36:27 GMT -8
My great uncle was raised in Brooks,OR in 1930s but lived in Monterey, CA area the rest of his years. He said he listened to the Blazers and Beavers whenever the night sky was right to bounce the AM radio signal down to him.
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Post by jefframp on Jan 22, 2023 18:16:38 GMT -8
My great uncle was raised in Brooks,OR in 1930s but lived in Monterey, CA area the rest of his years. He said he listened to the Blazers and Beavers whenever the night sky was right to bounce the AM radio signal down to him. I've spent all but 7 years in the small berg of Brooks. Spent 2 years in Ketchikan, Alaska after graduating from OSU in 1972 and I could likewise get a 1190 KEX signal up there at night especially when I used a signal booster. Good memories! |
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Post by ag87 on Jan 22, 2023 18:24:26 GMT -8
Not Schonely related, but being a baseball fan and a kid in Roseburg, I found I could get KNBR 680 out of San Francisco and the Dodgers affiliate in Las Vegas, 720. This was before the Mariners. I think by that time it just mattered a lot less.
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