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| Pinky Kravitz |
Pinky Kravitz was celebrating 55 years
in the broadcasting business, so naturally he was presented with a
55-pound cake — with the likeness of his personalized bobblehead
doll drawn in icing.
Kravitz was at the Borgata Casino Hotel
and Spa in Atlantic City, NJ last Friday for his special anniversary broadcast on WOND 1400
AM, complete with visits from morning host Don Williams — who
credited Kravitz with his own radio career in the first place.
“Blame it all on him,” Williams
joked. “Fifty-five years in our line of work is really admirable.
All the awards and rewards he received in a highly competitive
industry, he did it in a town you know is not an easy place to
accomplish your life’s goals.”
Kravitz, who is also a Press of Atlantic City columnist, began his broadcast career on WLDB in 1958,
“sitting in front of the Chelsea Hotel with 50 chairs in front of
me, a mic and telephone on a table. And nobody called. The thing was,
WLDB did not have equipment that would allow people listening on the
radio to hear callers. I repeated what people said, and had to fake
some calls when no one would call. ... I would argue with myself
until someone called me.”
That first year, he interviewed Eleanor
Roosevelt, who he had met while in the Army, as well as six-time
Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, and actress Joan
Fontaine.
“I’ve had so many guests I’ve
been fortunate to be able to get,” Kravitz said. “Atlantic City
had conventions, always had big names. It just worked out pretty
well.”
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