The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

Broadcast Pioneers member Max E. Solomon started selling radio time in 1929. In 2001 when this interview was recorded, he had been retired for over 30 years and lived year round in Florida. Solomon in the fall of 2001 moved back to the Philly area to be around friends and his family. Max, 95 at the time of this interview, and his wife and been married for 75 years, that's three-quarters of a century.

On September 19, 2001, Max was visiting relatives here in Philadelphia. His grandson, Roger Krone, a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, is a time salesman (following in Max's footsteps) for Power 99, WUSL Radio. Roger brought Max E. Solomon, also one of our members, along to our meeting and afterwards, our former President, Pat Delsi sat down and talked with Max about his life-long career in broadcast sales on our webcast series, PIONEERS IN BROADCASTING.

This video was shot on high-speed VHS tape. However, because of the light from the windows, the picture of Max was dark. In fact, in some places who could only see a shadow. It looked like one of those videos where the speaker was kept in the dark to hide their true identity. In 2001, our video was also running only 5 frames a second.

During the summer of 2011, we pulled the original tape from our video archive and re-encoded the interview. It now runs at 30 frames a second (TV standard) and we were able to lighten the video. While it is nowhere near perfect, it is much better than our previous version.

Watch Max E. Solomon in Real Video!