The Cleveland Retro Archive Project

Bob Akerman is the media relations director for the elections board of Greater Cleveland. He is speaking with Bob Humphrey, the incumbent Animal Warden of Middleburg Hts. and Dave Stevens, the challenger. Bob is pretty laid back and has run the Animal pound without issue for the past 2 terms. Dave Stevens is a bit... Read More

Jerry Waldaman hosts his 2003 Halloween special. He has Dr. Simon Fish on who is associate editor of New Age Quarterly and a member of the Fred Nelson Society. Fish is promoting his new book “Life after death after life”. Fish is most notable for his psychic ability and helping a police department solve over... Read More

Intro has audio clips from The Warriors (1979) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Sweet Ass Sassafras give a nice little tribute to Fred “Rerun” Berry. who had just passed away. A member from the local band Above This Fire calls in promoting a costume party concert in Hubbard Ohio. 669 Radio IDs were... Read More

This is just an 8 minute clip of Sassy from a 2001 show. Seeing as it is so difficult to find any shows, it is included here.

This clip is from 1996. Steve appeared on the Literary Cafe Talk Show hosted by Chad Stanley. The Literary Cafe Talk Show was a show broadcasted on channel 53 in Cleveland, a community public access channel. This clip comes from the very first episode, annoying fart machine and all. Steve discusses the early days of... Read More

This is not your typical Wainstead show, Steve makes it an all request and dedication show. This was from the 2:00am-7:00am slot on Saturday Nights (Technically Sunday Morning). He then reads a short version of the Sun police blotter from Lakewood. He is eating food (an apple) while he takes requests and the crunch can... 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 is assisted by Bill and they are taking calls. The subject of the night is Elvis Presley. Steve attempts to call a few 800 numbers that promote Elvis and Graceland, but is unsuccessful. He does however make contact with a Home Shopping Club operator. Notable Callers: Rick “Gilly” Gilmour, Jack from the Post Office,... 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

Starts off with news from Parma, Seven Hills, Wadsworth, Norton, Cleveland Hts., Shaker Hts., Beachwood, Mayfield Hts., Highland Hts., Richmond Hts., Lyndhurst and Lakewood. Steve brought in a bunch of old vinyl he bought at the thrift stores or garage sales and plays it. The Chief Wahoo controversy of being offensive is discussed. Brainwash is... Read More

Steve reads the Sun News police blotter from Parma, Seven Hills, Wadsworth, Norton, Shaker Hts., Lyndhurst, Highland Hts., Bay Village, Rocky River, North Olmsted and Lakewood.

Steve reads the news from Parma, Parma Hts., Wadsworth, University Hts., Norton, Shaker Hts., Beachwood, Pepper Pike, Cleveland Hts., Lyndhurst, Mayfield Hts., Highland Hts., South Euclid, Bay Village, Westlake, Rocky River, Fairview Park, North Olmsted and Lakewood.

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

Starts of with the SUN news from Parma, Parma Hts., Cleveland Hts., Shaker Hts., Beachwood, University Hts., Wadsworth, South Euclid, Mayfield Village, Mayfield Hts. and Lakewood. This show came out around the time Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Several callers were asking the question, “how did he get it?”, but it went unanswered... Read More

The Professor must have been lonely, he seemed to get the most time in this show. Starts off with the news from Parma, Parma Hts., Seven Hills, Wadsworth, Beachwood, Shaker Hts., South Euclid, Richmond Hts., Lyndhurst, Mayfield Village, Mayfield Hts. and Lakewood. Goes into some issues regarding public education and who should run bad districts.... Read More

Starts off with news from Lakewood, Parma, Seven Hills, Wadsworth, Beachwood, University Hts., Cleveland Hts., Richmond Hts., South Euclid, Mayfield Village, Mayfield Hts. and ends with a traffic copter report. Quite a few topics are brought up, there is mention that Ernie Anderson may return as Ghoulardi for a one time deal. Ron Sweed aka.... Read More

Steve is sick and wants to leave and cancel the show for the day. The callers call in and most of them tell him to stay on the air. The topic of Clarence Thomas for Supreme Court justice is brought up. Notable Callers: Professor, Old Man Johnson, Bazooka Joe, Rick “Gilly” Gilmour, Professor

The crime blotter is read from Parma, Seven Hills, Parma Hts., Wadsworth, Shake Hts., Mayfield Hts., South Euclid, Lyndhurst, Mayfield Village and Lakewood. This show aired around the time Michael Jackson’s glove was stolen and callers call in with their theories. The Flintstones are discussed and callers talk about seeing Fred smoke in an episode.... Read More

Steve hosts the wcsb Radiothon and is hoping to raise 1000.00 during his show. Police blotter is read for Parma, Parma Hts., Wadsworth, University Hts., Shaker Hts., Beachwood, Richmond Hts., South Euclid, Lyndhurst, Mayfield Village, Mayfield Hts. and Lakewood. Notable Callers: Rick “Gilly” Gilmour, Pigman

Rick “Gilly” Gilmour is in the studio hosting the show. Steve is sitting back letting Rick run everything. The callers are giving Gilly a workout for an hour straight. Gilly keeps asking the question “do you trust condoms”? Notable Callers: Bazooka Joe, Concord Boy Pigman, Old Man Johnson, Lori, Willoughby Guy, Alzheimer Al, Alaina, Googoo,... Read More

Steve is joined by Steve-O and John Petkovic of Death of Samantha, not the Yoko Ono song, the Cleveland band. Steve-O and John are busting balls, not taking too much seriously and telling dad type jokes, some actually were funny. Gilly calls in and takes control of the situation and asks them whats wrong with... Read More

Steve is way too nice in this show and allows Mr. Tim to control the conversation where Mr. Tim talks about an old slide rule he found that was branded with drug education information. Steve wants to get him off the air, but is unsuccessful. Callers call in with some jokes, not a good day... Read More

Even though the above words were never uttered in the series, that didn’t stop Steve from spending a great portion of the show discussing Star Trek. David Letterman is brought up by a few callers, gets good when they start talking about the Crispin Glover episode . News from Parma, Parma Hts., Seven Hills, Shaker... Read More

It begins with the news being read from Parma, Parma Hts., Seven Hills, University Hts, Shaker Hts., Wadsworth, Mayfield Hts., Highland Hts., South Euclid and Lakewood. Steve goes into a little discussion about how radio station frequencies are distributed, FCC rules and pirate radio. Quite a few callers call in giving props to Big Fun,... Read More

Starts off with the news from Parma, Mayfield Hts., Richmond Hts., South Euclid, Wadsworth and Lakewood. Quite a bit of talk about comic books and the mentioning of electric cars. The big theme throughout the show was a bunch of callers calling in saying they wanted to join the Gilly hate club, with a few... Read More