This episode was originally released on 9/1/2021. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.____________In Breaking Walls episode 119 we continue our Americana mini-series by bringing our appetites to the diner. We’ll hear stories from some of radio’s best and center ourselves around shows taking place in establishments.——————————Highlights:• What Exactly is a Diner?• Lux Presents Hollywood• Suspense At the End of World War II• The Diner After World War II• Bill Conrad, Burt Lancaster, and The Killers• ABC Takes Friday Nights With This Is Your FBI• Frank Sinatra and His Rocky Fortune• Going Back to Gunsmoke• James Earl Jones and Theater Five——————————The WallBreakers:thewallbreakers.comSubscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.To support the show:patreon.com/TheWallBreakers——————————The reading material used in today’s episode was:• On the Air - By John Dunning• Network Radio Ratings — By Jim RamsburgAs well as:• From Hash House to Family Restaurant: The Transformation of the Diner and Post-World War II Consumer Culture — By Andrew Hurley from The March 1997 Journal of American History.And other articles from:• Paste Magazine• Smithsonian Magazine——————————On the interview front:• Parley Baer, Conrad Binyon, Norman Corwin, and Lurene Tuttle spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.• Parley Baer, Jerry Devine, Lawrence Dobkin, Fred Foy, and Bob Maxwell, were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.• William Spier spoke with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear this full interview at Goldenage-WTIC.org.• John Dehner was with Neil Ross for KMPC.• Frank Sinatra spoke with Arlene Francis, Walter Cronkite, and Larry King.• William Conrad with Chris Lambesis.• Norman Macdonnell with John Hickman of WAMU for his Gunsmoke documentary.——————————Selected music featured in today’s episode was:• Theme From A Summer Place — By Percy Faith• I’ve Got The World on a String and Why Try To Change Me Now — By Frank Sinatra• The Venice Dreamer Pt1 and 2 — By George Winston• Across the Alley from the Alamo — By The Mills Brothers