Down At the Golden Coin

Literature & Fiction

Kim Strickland

Genre Fiction

Eckhartz Press

When you’re born with the middle name “Records”, your destiny has been chosen for you. John Records Landecker fulfilled his destiny by becoming one of the most respected disc jockeys in radio history.\nIn Landecker’s incredible 40-plus year major market radio career, he lived an amazing life. His former long-time producer, author Rick Kaempfer, has managed to pull those stories out of him in the pages of “Records Truly Is My Middle Name.” Whether the stories are about the behind the scenes world of Top 40 Radio’s heyday, or Landecker’s colorful encounters with worldwide celebrities like George Harrison, Mel Brooks, Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, George Carlin, and countless others, Landecker recounts his tales with refreshing honesty and humor.\nLandecker and Kaempfer produced this memoir as they once did their radio show together. The book is packed with the stories behind Landecker’s most famous bits and songs, timeless photographs, John’s personal memories of important Baby Boomer milestones, and additional stories from over thirty guest stars (like fellow radio legends Bob Sirott, Jonathon Brandmeier, Don Wade, Fred Winston, Joey Reynolds and more).

Records Truly is My Middle Name

John Records Landecker

Rick Kaempfer

Records Truly Is My Middle Name

Humor & Entertainment

Kaempfer, Rick

Landecker, John Records

Radio

Chicago architect Peter O'Hara had a plan, a blueprint , for how he wanted to build his life. He had goals and ambitions and his path was clear. He had a loving wife and son, career success, and his final career goal was close within reach. The opportunity to become a partner in his firm was there for the taking. He almost had it all. But life and fate do not consider such plans. An unbelievable and unplanned event sets off a domino effect of repercussions that turn Peter's life upside down, pushing him to his limits and causing him to re-evaluate everything he thought was important.

Recalled to Life

Burns, Dan

For the past thirty years, Chuck Quinzio has been filming life on the streets of Chicago as a television news cameraman. 
"Life Behind the Camera" is his vividly colorful memoir; a chronicle of the news stories of the last three decades, told from a cameraman's perspective.\n*Stand alongside a young gangbanger lying on the streets of Chicago, struggling to stay alive.\n*Chase down celebrities (Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, Michael Jordan, Harry Caray), politicians (Harold Washington, Rod Blagojevich), and criminals (including mob bosses).\n*Cheat death as you hang out of a helicopter, or slink out of a housing project amid a flurry of flying bullets, or maneuver your way around the gruesome underbelly of Chicago.\n*Hang out in Chicago's television newsrooms--and learn the behind the scenes machinations of assignment editors, reporters, news directors, anchors, and crew.\n*Spend time with a network television news crew, flying into such hotspots as Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio.\n*And of course, experience the joy and splendor of the city of Chicago.\nQuinzio's storytelling paints a picture of Chicago and the television news business you'll never forget; tragic, gritty, frightening, and laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Life Behind The Camera

Chuck Quinzio

Joel Daly is a Chicago icon. *He was a television news reporter. In that role he interviewed the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Governor George Wallace, accused murderer (and inspiration for "The Fugitive") Sam Sheppard, and even the Beatles. *He was a television news anchor. In that role he helped create the Eyewitness News brand, wrote and delivered daily commentaries during the incredible tumult of the late 60s and early 70s, and along with fellow legendary anchor Fahey Flynn, anchored Chicago's top rated newscast. *He was a actor and performer. As a young man he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, and as a not-quite-as-young-man recently appeared as Howard Beale in a stage version of "Network". *He was a pilot. He built his own airplane from scratch, later flew it, and even went wing-walking. *He was a country music star. His band Joel Daly and the Sundowners appeared all over the Chicago area for years. Joel wowed the audience with his yodeling abilities. He was an attorney. He went back to law school in his 50s, and became a prominent lawyer in Chicago, recently retiring after more than twenty years practicing law. *Joel Daly is Chicago's very own Renaissance Man. In this second edition of "The Daly News", he tells all those stories and more.

The Daly News

Joel Daly

Bruce Bohrer was a Wrigley Field usher for nine seasons, and during that time he saw it all. Brushes with greatness, marriage proposals, creative signs and cheers, unique crowd control issues, and the sheer awe and excitement of Wrigley patrons are captured beautifully in the pages of this book. Maybe you'll even recognize yourself, because after all, the real stars of "Best Seat in the House: Diary of a Wrigley Field Usher" are not the players on the field. They are the people who come to the shrine called Wrigley; everyday fans who bleed blue for their beloved Cubs.

Best Seat in the House

Bruce Bohrer

Eighth grade: for many, one of the worst years in school. But for Ann, it held promises - a growing group of friends, a school musical, a fancy graduation dance, and a trip to Washington D.C., but mostly, the emergence of her better self, less sickly, less ugly, less awkward.Instead, an unexpected move to Hong Kong pulls her away from all that is familiar and comfortable at a time when she believes she needs that most. Ann looks back at this time in her life, and through a blend of her adolescent and adult voice, reveals a unique coming-of-age in the late 1970's when Hong Kong was a mash up of glittering wealth and wretched poverty, elegance and filth, but primarily a British Colony devoted to excessive capitalist freedom. Hong Kong was a playground for expatriates, and Ann, initially angry and unwilling to acclimate, let alone assimilate, eventually finds herself embracing her new home and discovering parts of herself she never knew existed.While Ann forges new and unusual friendships, her father - an architect with a volatile and creative temperament - struggles with the challenges of working for a Chinese client and facing his own limitations. Ann and her family eventually return to their home in Western Springs, Illinois, broken, confused, and initially unwilling to accept their 'old' American life.This is a story about becoming a young woman, acknowledging, accepting, and loving flawed adults, and making the most of living abroad despite the challenges present, not only in moving overseas, but in returning 'home.'

In Small Boxes

Ann R Wilson

We Have Company invites you to tune in as classic rockers to cult heroes go on record to celebrate the historical and the inane.It's all here: Woodstock, Lennon's Death, Band Aid, Live Aid, and even 9/11. Stories from first recordings to the Last Waltz, all carefully coaxed by a radio DJ who wants you to hear them told by insiders.In the pages of this book you'll find hungry beginnings, mega tours, and humbling interventions. Be ready for the ludicrous and the profound...because We Have Company.

We Have Company. Four Decades of Rock and Roll Encounters

Bobby Skafish

The story traces the 20-year quixotic obsession of a few guys that blossomed into a world-renowned scientific, historical and archaeological breakthrough. Pals since the 1970s, Weinberg and expedition leader Steve Elkins and his expert team uncover incontrovertible evidence of a previously unknown civilization. It includes the author s private journals written in Honduras, plus more than 180 photographs and Weinberg's deep reflections on his Adventure of a Lifetime. The reader is brought into the world of the discoverers, complete with dangerous snakes and insects, gorgeous untouched beauty, exhilaration and a rare disease that came with the discovery. It is a great read and the pictorial and personal companion to the 2017 New York Times bestseller, Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston (Grand Central, 2017.) Preston calls Weinberg The Official Chronicler who wrote on his laptop in impenetrable Mosquitia Jungle. Chasing The Lost City: Chronicles of Discovery in Honduras sparkles with the insights and foibles of a first-time explorer with pithy, sometimes self-deprecating and brutally honest reflections. The compelling images, many of which are video still frames from an upcoming major documentary, have been beautifully orchestrated by award winning designer Elan Soltes. As the stunning photographs prove, this tiny spot in the Mosquitia Jungle of Honduras is a rugged, pristine, frightening, and almost sacred place.

Chasing the Lost City: Chronicles of Discovery in Honduras

Tom Weinberg

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