Plan to Rename Boomer Park: The Harold Peary Show (September 24, 1950)

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“Plan to Rename Boomer Park” is an episode of The Harold Peary Show, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 24, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Honest Harold, the homemaker, hosts a morning radio program at KHJP in Melrose Springs, where his popular talk and advice show is supervised by his station manager, Stanley Peabody, nephew of station owner Mr. Carothers. Harold, who is courting Evelyn, is ordered by Stanley to support renaming Boomer Park after Mr. Carothers in honor of his 65th birthday. Harold reluctantly agrees on the air, which turns the town against him. This is an episode of The Harold Peary Show, originally broadcast on September 24, 1950.

Melrose Springs, a small town, including the radio station KHJP, Evelyn's home, and the Carothers mansion

Characters: Harold Peary, Harold Hemp, Little Billy, Stanley Peabody, Evelyn, Doc Yakabaker, Mr. Carothers, Gloria

Listen for: Harold's on-air reversal and his later crusade to save Boomer Park, with the statue of General Boomer

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.