WQMR, Washington, DC

Robert Morris was at WGAY in 1972 - and he indicates Bob Gotkin was there as well, and I've added them to the announcers list. He also reminded me that Bob Chandler, the boss, should be in that list as well! By the way, my caption in the upper right side of the picture above is HUGE because it has to be, the picture is a composite of two originals submitted by Robert Morris and enhanced by Bob Bell. Same with the lower left; the results are worth it, if you can ignore the "spaces" the picture of the studio is quite good.

Starting in 1965, the station began the move to larger, modern (beautiful studio with the finest equipment) quarters at 8121 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, as seen on the right.  I believe the "WGAY 99.5 STEREO" was a revision, somewhere in the dusty recesses of my brain I recall something like "WGAY 50,000 WATTS STEREO" but don't have a picture.  Below, another shot looking northward from the DC direction, and a couple shots looking southward from the Silver Spring direction.  Originally, the southbound traffic saw "WQMR 1050" on the side of the building.  It was changed, late as I recall, to WGAY 1050 when the 'QMR calls were dropped for AM 1050,  and eventually to just "WGAY 99.5" as the AM side was sold.

Many thanks to  Arthur McDougall (engineer at the station in the 50's), Mark Rockman, Dave Schweikart, and Tom Buckley for the photographs!