Willard and Virginia Klose interviewing Bronco Charlie Miller, 1947

Name/Title

Willard and Virginia Klose interviewing "Bronco" Charlie Miller, 1947

Entry/Object ID

2017.007.7

Description

From 1946-48, Woody and Virginia's Klose's "Red Hook 31" (the family's party line phone number) was broadcast nationwide over the Mutual Broadcasting System (FM radio) five days a week for 15 minutes from their breakfast room. The show drew nationwide attention to Red Hook as the Kloses caught the tenor of bustling, suburbanizing postwar America, They interviewed everyone: farmers, merchants, local and state politicians, artists, writers -- even national celebrities such as "Bronco" Charlie Miller (who claimed to be the last of the Pony Express riders).

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Klose, Virginia (Taylor), Klose, Willard ("Woody")

Subject Place

Property

81 Echo Valley Road

Town

Red Hook