Lucky Night
The Whistler · December 17, 1945 · 29 min · 4,466 words
The transcript of “Lucky Night”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast December 17, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Whistler plays The Whistler free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Signal Oil Program, the Whistler. That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler, and the Whistler. And I know many things, for I walk by night.
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. Yes friends, it's time for the Signal Oil program, the Whistler, rated by independent research the most popular program on the West Coast.
Remember that every traffic signal reminds you, with new signal gasoline you do go farther than ever. Look for the familiar big yellow and black circle sign that identifies those popular signal service stations in seven western states from Canada to Mexico.
And now the Whistler Strange Story. Lucky night, cities are noisy sprawling things, tentacled with streets and avenues scarred by towers and ditches, build of shacks and mansions. They combine the beautiful and the ugly, and the people of the cities are as diverse and very disabuilding, rich and poor, educated and ignorant, the hurrying, scuffling, pushing mob that makes a city live.
They are the principles and a million stories enacted every day in the city's streets and its buildings Here for example is the beginning of one story a Man running down a street in the cheap section of the city just after nightfall He darts across a narrow street without looking he comes to the intersection of a street and alley
Just as a car turns the corner He said what are we gonna do to get out of here drag him in that alley Oh, but he's dead, that's hitting run by me, we all already...
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