The October 30, 1938 broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” famously fooled listeners across the nation, but perhaps none were as shocked as the small Washington town of Concrete.
American film director and actor Orson Welles, left, photographed with English author H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov. 30, 1940.
Concrete is a fascinating city for so many reasons. It’s been a hard-luck place as long as I can remember — long before the eponymous concrete plant closed, and years before it was immortalized by the Tobias Wolf bookMy family used to camp every year at nearby Baker Lake in the Mt.
Several calls to the historical society and the senior center, among other places, led to a lot of dead ends — mainly folks too young to remember the show. I can’t remember how, exactly, but I finally was directed to Albert Frank who was then 89 years old. He was more than happy to talk with me. Beyond his “War of the Worlds” memories, Frank was nostalgic about what a going concern and sizable community Concrete had been in those days. He spoke proudly of the three-mile elevated tramline that brought stone from the quarry to the concrete plant; the hundreds of workers employed there; and the additional impact of the timber industry that was booming at that time.
If anything were needed to demonstrate both the irresponsibility that is so widespread in broadcasting, and the radio’s inherent shortcomings, the hysteria that followed Sunday’s dramatization of ‘The War of the Worlds’ provided abundant evidence.
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