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In 1966, WTVC Channel 9 moved its operations to the Golden Gateway Shopping Center, near downtown, where it remained for more than 30 years.

The year was 1964, and more than 100 exhibitors had packed the Hotel Patten in downtown Chattanooga for one of the city's biggest gun shows.

3 American Heroes Posed For Photo Together In Chattanooga In 2003 Sunday, May 9, 2021 - by Earl Freudenberg Retired Brigadier General Carl Levi recently sent me a very special picture of three American Heroes.  Charles Coolidge, Desmond Doss and Pat Brady all were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.      The men were present in 2003 for the Armed Forces Day Luncheon in Chattanooga.  General Brady, a retired Major General and the most decorated solider of Viet Nam, was the guest speaker.   While General Brady was here Mr. Levi took Brady to see Coolidge at Chat...

Remembering WDOD Radio As It Turns 96 Tuesday, April 13, 2021 - by Earl Freudenberg Chuck Simpson, Chattanooga’s first talk show host Hamilton National Bank, 7th and Market Street, WDOD studio on mezzanine WDOD main control room, Hamilton National Bank Building WDOD radio studio next to Baylor School WDOD AM control room after station changes to country music WDOD AM longtime manager Bill Nash (right) and announcer Earl Freudenberg (left)  At one time WDOD AM was known as Chattanooga’s Pioneer Station going on the air on April 13, 1925.  If the station was still on the air it woul...