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")
