For those of you who may have lived in Hawaii from late sixties to the early eighties, Jim Hawthorne will be forever known as Mr. Checkers, the other half of the ubiquitous children TV show, “Checkers and Pogo”. Jim had been a veteran of early radio:
KMYR-1941 (Colorado)
KXLA (Now KRLA)-1943-1948 (Pasadena)
KECA-1948-1949
KNX-1950-1952 (Los Angeles)
KDAY-1959
KFWB-1960-1963 (Los Angeles)
Once again