Seattle’s Morning News replayed one of my vintage Christmas features last week: It’s a piece from December 2018 about Centralia’s “Magic Radio Santa,” who from the 1950s to the 1970s would read letters to Santa written by local kids over the airwaves of radio station KELA.
One of the kids whose letter was read on the old 1950 recording I had found – with help from John Jenkins of Bellingham’s SPARK Museum – was 7-year old Jim Hudson, who asked for presents for himself, as well as for his brother who was serving in the Korean War.
“And here’s a nice letter from, let’s see, this is from Chehalis
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