This is really cool...

http://www.youtube.com/user/THEMOJOMANsince1959

That's when radio was REAL - and people cared. You could actually watch the MoJo Man 'working' thru the glass front windows on Pickle Road when he was on the air - and of course, he was at my station, WOHO ! MoJo Man moved around a bit after he was here in Toledo, but always had a great hyperactive show and a great audience; but, sad thing is, he got burned-out, and ended-up driving around a damn ice cream truck!
A couple of years back, he did get back in touch again.

WOHO, where in the pickle road building was the WOHO studio? I worked in that building when XKR was to the left past the front desk when you walk in and WWWM was straight back to the left past the racks...

Back in MoJo Man days, it was only WOHO, so they had the whole building on the West side and the main studio was right in the 'middle' just in front of the giant tube transmitter. By 1978, they had 4 studios (all to the left) and they moved the receptionist desk to the right as you came thru the front door - by 89, they only had 3 studios in the big building and put the receptionist desk to the left as you came in.
Anyhow, in 78, 79, as you came in the door and made a sharp left, that first 'studio' was all automation for (WXEZ) "Z-105", then you went thru the glass doors and that room served as the Production Room -and- since it was the last studio with 2 turntables, (and 2 open reel decks) it is where AT40 originated on the weekends. The tiny studio in 'front' of the production room at the end of the hall with the racks next to the two thermal 'teletypes' was the "News Studio" with an ancient board. The tiny room at the end right side was for the engineer and 'traffic' people (listening to a police scanner and TARTA radio). The BIG STUDIO was the long rectangular studio with windows on 3 sides sitting in front of the transmitters and audio/EBS racks, and was used by the money-maker back then, WOHO. (A few years later, they started a morning simulcast of 1470 on 105.5) This main studio had 3 racks on wheels full of tape carts for the songs, spots, and jingles and a nice big sit-down Flormica casework studio with digital clocks for the tape carts. Eventually, 105 went 'live' from the automation in early 1980 and the automation hardware got moved out and receptionist took that equipment spot. Summer of 1990, 94-5 WOSE became WXKR, but everything was on Lemoyne Road, across the street from Northwood HS. In '83-90, 1470 and 105.5 became a simulcast, AM got no money for talent and then became CNN Radio News when the 1st Gulf War hit in 1991, then Urban (like 95.7), then "The Ticket" and sometime went from the nice big sit-down studio to the uncomfortable 'stand-up' studio that was the rage back then. Wasn't ever in the building after the Dickey's bought 94-5 and moved them in, so don't know which of the 3 studios in the big building they used, or whatever happened with the little building and studios in there.
Too bad Papa Dickey didn't rebuild/repair his original Midwestern Broadcasting buildings - the birthplace "Startford Research" and of Cumulus Broadcasting - 1470/105.5, instead of being landlocked at their tiny spot on Arlington when they added WTOD/K100 to their fold. Why they didn't build new on Pickle Road, I'll never know, especially after they added 93.5 and Tower 98 to their group?
Now, the building is a hellhole, the 1KW transmitter running 300-330 watts.
The Pickle Road address was a 'dummy address' for Paster Pants' Cornerstone Church while he was horsing around getting 1520 up and running, so I thought that was a weird deal.
IF Cumulus had any money, they should rebuild the 1470 tower array right where it is, but instead they are supposed to move it near Byrne Road. I doubt they could add 1560 to the current 1470 site as too many people live in the 1volt area over there to start something new.

That painted an amazing picture, thanks for that.

It sounds like the old Star 105 studio was the old WOHO studio. I only worked in the building for a year back when I started my career when I was 16, then they moved us to Arlington. If I remember correctly when I walked in the studio door, turned right, there was a step down to the area where the jock sat. So when you sat in the DJ chair you had to look up at your guests at the other mic. The studio door was to the far left and I remember looking out the big window to the right you could see the front door. The small window to the left looked into the prod studio and the small window to my right looked into what was WXKR at the time.

When we moved to the Arlington building the PD needed me to go grab some stuff from the old building a few months after we moved. It was really a sad sight to see everything torn up and piled into the middle of that old studio.

WOHO, I wish 1560 were still in Toledo. Unfortunately it got sold off a few months ago. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. It's interesting to hear about the good ole days of radio.

My mom had some recordings of WOHO on reel-to-reel in her collection I remember listening to once.