The Cleveland Retro Archive Project

Sad to announce that John “Jack” Gergotz better known as Jack from the Post Office has died. This happened late in January of 2024. I’ve had this in my queue for quite sometime, but never got around to paying my proper respects and posting a page in his honor. This is not current news, but... Read More

Just noticed this episode was added to archive.org early in 2025 and of course, I just discovered it now. An obvious satire of the Blair Witch Project, a 1999 horror film made for a few bucks and brought in millions. Jerry Waldaman goes into the woods and gets scared. Jerry broadcasts live from Kipton Ohio... Read More

Starts off with the Sun news police blotter from Lakewood and Wadsworth and Ads Solon, North Royalton and Strongsville to part 2 of the news. The first half hour also features back to back comedy clips. After that, Steve goes into Urban Legends, referring to two books he checked out of the library by Jan... Read More

Steve starts off the show by reading the Sun News from Parma, Parma Heights, and Wadsworth. After the news he takes on some callers. More news is then read from Shaker Heights, Beachwood, University Heights, Cleveland Heights, Mayfield Heights, Richmond Heights, Lyndhurst, Bay Village, Westlake, Cleveland 2nd district, Brooklyn Heights and Lakewood. The topic of... Read More

Quiet day on the radio. Steve talks about hostages and the Terry Anderson situation. He then creates a Party line and asks questions, like abolish the IRS and establish a national sales tax and are the Japanese taking over America. Sharon says she had a party and someone made a few calls to a 900... Read More

Wainstead starts off with the Sun News Blotter. Rick “Gilly” Gilmour is in the studio helping Steve take on callers. They rate the calls/callers with a code 1 thru code 10 rating, but they don’t tell you what the code stands for. They field tons of random calls, some good, some bad, but mostly random... Read More

Steve starts off the show with the police blotter. Jack from the post office calls in with real names of the WWF wrestlers. A Doors (The band) mashup is played. Steve poses the question, why do girls like dance music. The callers respond in force to answer. Steve talks about the book “Visualized American History”... Read More

Steve starts with some comical parody commercials like the Pete Rose game and they are peppered in throughout the show. Gilly calls in about a Batman comic book he found. The North Olmsted school fire is brought up and we learn students will have to the IX center for classes. The atomic neon sign on... Read More

Steve starts with taking calls. He is joined in studio by the Alzheimer Al and Bill (I’m guessing Bill Stone possibly). Gilly calls in and asks Steve to take the call off the air, which he does. While Steve is dealing with Gilly, he has Alzheimer Al take over the show and it is horrible,... Read More

This undated episode featured Mitch Macho live in the studio with Wainstead. I’m dating it around January of 1989 based on the Ted Bundy joke. Callers call in and try to stump Mitch with trivia. One wanted him to name to character names of the castaways on Gilligan’s Island. They prank call the BLF Bash... Read More