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Books For Sale:

Chronicles from the Analog Age

My Brother…
He’s an Angel


It Happened On The Air

Fiasco At 1280

Legend Of The Brewery

Authors
Jeff R. Lonto
Savannah L. Leyde

Essays
For public consumption:

The RYTHER Factor
The broadcast career of sports guy Tom Ryther

KONO-AM 86 Tribute
San Antonio’s One and Oldies Station

Right On Super U!
Recalling U100, the controversial 1970's radio station.

KMSP Your
Newsnine Station

The saga of KMSP-TV
Mpls-St. Paul in the 1970's

The Trading Stamp Story
(or: When Trading Stamps Stuck) In 3 Parts

The Incredibly Ugly
Del Roberts

Charlie Bush
(1933-1991)

When Cincinnati Pulled
the Plug on Alice

Alice Cooper was too cool for TV in 1972.


PHOTO GALLERY
©2000, 2004 by Jeff R. Lonto

Miscellany


Studio Z•7 Publishing main office

Another view of the office

Jeff Lonto meets his old buddy Casey Jones (the late Roger Awsumb of WTCN-TV 11)

AM meets FM. WWTC biographer Jeff Lonto parties with KQRS and Drive 105 personality Mei Young

Tim Russell in the studios of WCCO Radio enjoying "Fiasco At 1280"

A toast is raised to "GBX Jeff" at a St. Paul bar

"Analog Age" contributor Erin Tabert shows off poster for Jeff Lonto's never-made 1986 movie, "Frankenstein's Brain Must Be Destroyed!"

Jeff Lonto touts the benefits of Standard Oil Company's "Final/Filter".

A friend really admires Jeff Lonto's retro Grain Belt T-shirt!


Having a Grain Belt beer with
oldies radio DJ Mike Records Ryan.

Fiasco At 1280 book event and panel discussion
Barnes & Nobel store, Minnetonka, MN. July 9, 1998


Poster in bookstore lobby announcing the event

The panel, including WWTC personalities Dick Driscoll, Arne Fogel, Nancy Rosen, Del Roberts, Roger Bull, Stuart Held

A smile from Nancy Rosen...

Arne Fogel, Nancy Rosen, "Ugly Del" Roberts
and Roger Bull

Anne Donnelly, event organizer. Couldn't have done it without her.
 

RSP Architects/Grain Belt Brewhouse Restoration Party
Grain Belt Park, Minneapolis, MN. June 19, 2001


Jeff Lonto displays original Grain Belt memorobilia at the original Grain Belt Brewery during a party thrown by its current occupants, RSP Architects of Minneapolis.

Some of the items on display

Lonto with Mrs. Kay Mathes, widow of Grain Belt brewmaster Frank Mathes

Hamming it up (pun intended) with Heather Beal, RSP Architects

©2005 STUDIO Z•7 PUBLISHING