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Paul is Vice President of Content for Mid-West Family celebrating his 50th year in broadcasting and celebrated his 25th year in Southwest Michigan in 2021. He has been hosting the COSY Morning Show since 1996. He is married to wife Anne 20 years with 5 grown children/stepchildren and nine grandchildren. Paul is President of the We Care Community Resource Center, a past President of Kiwanis, has chaired the Van Buren County United Way Campaign, was awarded the South Haven Chamber Business Person of the year, Community Impact Award and Living Legend Award as well as Citizen of the Year Award by South Haven Rotary Club. He attends South Haven’s Peace Lutheran Church, love family time, music, theatre and time on the water!
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Nov. 20, 2024 1945 Prosecution began against 24 former Nazi leaders for war crimes in the Nuremberg Trials; 12 of which were sentenced to death. 2002 Singer Michael Jackson held
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, November 18, 2024 1928 Steamboat Willie, Disney’s first cartoon with synchronized sound, was released. Mickey’s voice was provided by none other than Walt Disney himself! 1949 The great Jackie Robinson
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 1885 The poem that inspired the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” was first published. It was also the inspiration for the Broadway musical “Annie” which opened in
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly set sail from New York to beat Phileas Fogg’s (from Jules Verne’s novel) time of 80 days for a 24,899-mile
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Pets are more than just companions; they’re family! At 98.3 The Coast, we understand the profound love we share with our furry friends. While many pets have found their forever homes, some are still patiently waiting in
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Nov. 13, 2024 1875 First football game with uniforms. Yale, wearing dark pants, blue shirts, and yellows hats beat Harvard who wore crimson shirts, pants, and stockings. 1946 Dry-ice pellets
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 1933 The first photo claiming to be of the Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray. It was published in the Daily Express the following month.
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, November 11, 2024 1919 Veterans Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday honoring military veterans. 1921 The remains of an unidentified American serviceman from World War I was interred at
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Nov. 8, 2024 1887 The first flat disc record player was patented by Emile Berliner. Earlier recording devices by Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell used cylinders that were difficult
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 1972 Despite the ongoing Watergate proceedings, President Richard Nixon was re-elected by a landslide. He received almost 18 million more popular votes than his Democratic opponent Senator
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Nov. 6, 2024 1928 Colonel Jacob Schick patented his first electric razor. Schick went on to form the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company and has become known as “The
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 1946 Chuck Connors (who went on to star in TV’s The Rifleman), playing for the Boston Celtics, was the first to ever shatter a backboard during the pre-game
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, November 4, 2024 1879 Thomas Edison filed for a patent for his incandescent electric lamp. Note: Joseph Swan had also patented an incandescent light in Great Britain the previous year. 1939
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 1800 U.S. President John Adams moved into what was at the time known as the “President’s House”, located in Washington D.C. George Washington is the only U.S.
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024 1517 Reformer Martin Luther started the Protestant reformation when he nailed his 95 theses against the corruption of the papacy in Rome to the door of the
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., October 30, 2024 1768 The first ‘Methodist’ church in America was dedicated, the Wesley Chapel in New York City. 1938 Orson Welles panicked the nation with his radio adaptation of The
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024 1929 The Great Stock Market Crash, marking the end of the Roaring ’20s and the start of the great depression. 1960 The future Muhammad Ali began his professional boxing
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Oct. 28, 2024 1636 The first US College was founded. Harvard. 1793 Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the Cotton Gin 1904 The first use of ‘finger printing’
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 1854 This was the day of the “Charge of the Light Brigade” in the battle of Baklava in the Crimean War. 1930 The first transcontinental air service
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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2023 1929 “Black Thursday” — investors dumped more than 13 million shares, causing a stock market crash and leading to the Great Depression. 1970, President Nixon asked record
