99 - Lovers of Lost Fans

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In 2000 we received a call to the NPR Lost & Found Sound Hotline from Willard Mayes, a member of the Antique Fan Collectors Association, who was concerned about the vanishing sound of electric fans. Willard leads Jay Allison, Curator and “Keeper” of the Quest for Sound Hotline, to the Vornado Fan factory, Michael Coup and the Antique Fan Museum, where passionate collectors can tell the make, model and year of a fan by its whir.

Also, NPR producer Art Silverman plunges into the sound collection of one of America’s giant corporations — AT&T — exploring how this one-time monopoly chronicled its own history and sold itself to America.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia.
0:02.0	Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Present.
0:04.0	PRX.
0:05.0	We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nicki Silva.
0:09.0	This is Nicki Silva of the Kitchen Sisters present.
0:13.0	Thanks so much to everyone who's already donated to Radiotopia's fall fundraiser.
0:18.0	If you haven't donated to the network before, you might wonder where exactly your dollars go.
0:24.2	The short answer is your donation goes to the Kitchen Sisters present and all the shows in
0:30.0	our network so that we can keep making the audio that you love and listen to.
0:35.0	Radio Topia from PRX is a non-profit public media company.
0:39.0	They connect us with new listeners and they've built an infrastructure around the work from sponsorship
0:44.2	publishing tech and other industry expertise. It's a great benefit to the
0:49.0	kitchen sisters to be part of a group of independent creators for
0:52.3	troubleshooting, camaraderie, and inspiration.
0:55.9	Head to radiotopia.F.M. slash donate.
0:58.9	To make a tax deductible contribution, you'll receive a special curated playlist from all of the Radiotopia producers,
1:07.0	go to Radiotopia. The Keepers starts in episode 100 of the Kitchen Sisters present.
1:19.0	Stories of Activists, Rogue Librarians, collectors, curators, and historians, protectors of the free
1:26.4	flow of information and ideas.
1:29.3	We are excited.
1:31.3	Keepers have always limped large in our stories. In hidden kitchens we
1:34.7	chronicled keepers of recipes and keepers of seeds, keepers of barbecue and
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