{"id":185,"date":"2008-09-20T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-01-15T01:02:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T05:02:30","slug":"more-on-john-t-frye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"More on John T. Frye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just uploaded a new version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copperwood.com\/carlandjerry.htm\">Carl               &amp; Jerry index<\/a>, including an expanded bio of John T. Frye.               We know a lot more about him than we did a couple of months ago,               and almost all of the new material came to me from Lisa Enfinger,               whose parents were close friends of Frye&#8217;s for many years. I&#8217;ll               summarize here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Frye was stricken by polio as an infant, and he could not                 walk at all, throughout his entire life.<\/li>\n<li>That said, he was not immobile: He had hand controls installed                 on all of his cars, and traveled extensively throughout the United                 States. He owned a 1963 Olds Dynamic 88, but no word on whether                 he ever had a Buick. (Legend holds that he was a Buick man, but                 no one can tell me why that should be so.)<\/li>\n<li>Remarkably enough, he never attended Purdue University, but                 instead studied at the University of Indiana, Columbia University,                 and the University of Chicago. Lisa did not know if he ever received                 a degree.<\/li>\n<li>More remarkably, he never studied engineering, but preferred                 English, journalism, history, and psychology.<\/li>\n<li>Her parents both attended Purdue in the 1940s while earning                 their degrees in chemistry, and John visited them there. He probably                 knew other people at Purdue, and it was not a long drive to Layafette                 from Logansport in any event.<\/li>\n<li>He is credited with close to 600 short articles, including Carl                 &amp; Jerry and Mac&#8217;s Service Shop. His first publication was                 supposedly in Hugo Gernsback&#8217;s <em>Radio Craft<\/em> in the early                 1930s.<\/li>\n<li>Her great uncle Gene Buntain was Frye&#8217;s close high school friend                 in Logansport, and the two of them discovered electronics and                 ham radio together. (Could Gene Buntain have been the inspiration                 for Carl?)<\/li>\n<li>John Frye lived much or most of his life at 1810 Spear St. in                 Logansport, one block south of US 24. It was a little weird to                 dive down from orbit on Google Earth and be staring at the roof                 of Frye&#8217;s old house. One wonders what the man himself would have                 thought of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I dug through my smallish collection of really old radio magazines               (including a few <em>Radio Craft<\/em>) and did not see him there,               but if any of you guys can find any of his early articles, I would               like citations.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I&#8217;m still looking for details on John Frye&#8217;s life,               especially concerning where he learned radio and TV servicing and               where he practiced it. Lisa said she never heard of him owning his               own shop nor even working for a shop in town, so that would be a               question worth answering.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I had written to Frye&#8217;s younger brother Bailey Frye late               last year, but he was evidently too ill to respond, and I found               today that he passed away at the end of April, at age 90.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Lisa Enfinger for taking the time to send me all               the information, including the scan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/fryearticle1962.jpg\">a               newspaper article from 1962<\/a> that I first lined to a couple of               weeks ago, including a picture of Frye at that time, when he was               42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just uploaded a new version of my Carl &amp; Jerry index, including an expanded bio of John T. Frye. We know a lot more about him than we did a couple of months ago, and almost all of the new material came to me from Lisa Enfinger, whose parents were close friends of Frye&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60,44,16],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-carl-jerry","tag-history","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}