The YUSA 2006 Family
Reunion
This years YUSA Reunion Location: The
Yesterday USA Studios in Richardson, TX.
November 28th -
December 2nd, 2006
Activities and
details are listed below!
About The Reunion
We think
of our listeners as "Family Members",
rather than just numbers in the Rating Books.
So once each year (during a portion of Bill &
Kim's vacation), all listeners are invited to
journey to The YUSA Studios in Richardson, TX to
experience a once in a lifetime opportunity to
see where the broadcasts originate from and to
meet some of the other YUSA Listeners! The
Family Reunion has been an
annual event for over eleven years, and it
has been held in Newark, NJ. and in Las Vegas,
NV as well as in Richardson, TX in past years.
In 2001, and again in 2002, YUSA's own
Mr. Frank Bresee
(the "living legend of Old Time Radio") invited
us to hold the Reunion at his
personal
home in Hollywood, CA. There was no
Reunion in 1999 due to the remodeling of the
YUSA Studios, and and the 2003 Reunion was
canceled due to the April 5th Hail Storm. This
year, we return home to the
YUSA
Studios in Richardson, TX. Many life
long friendships have been established during
past Reunions, and John Redman of
Decatur, IL. has a perfect attendance record!
Just follow the rules listed below, and come
join us for a five fun filled evenings in Richardson,
TX.; November 28th - December 2nd, 2006!
Daily Activities
Tuesday November 28th, 2006
( all times are listed in
Central Time )
06:00
PM
Meet at 2001 Plymouth Rock Drive, Richardson, TX.
75081. Meet Bill and Kim Bragg and tour
the YUSA Studios/ Bragg Home. Choose a
near-by restaurant for dinner via majority vote,
then follow behind Bill & Kim ( in your own
vehicle ) as we go out to eat.
Click Here for a map
to Bill & Kim's home!
o8:00
PM
Meet back at the YUSA Studios / Bragg Home
Ride the indoor Amusement Part Train and enjoy a
ride around the block in the Bragg's 1974 Silver
Shadow Rolls Royce and/or in the 1929 Model A
kit car ( weather permitting ).
09:30 PM
Become a part of the Live
Studio Audience as Bill and Mike Handy ( in Ft.
Worth, TX. ) perform their
Nightly Live
Show. Light refreshments will be
served.
11:00PM
Adjourn for the evening.
Wednesday November 29th, 2006
( all times are listed in
Central Time )
06:00
PM
Meet at
2001 Plymouth Rock Drive, Richardson, TX.
75081. Meet Bill and Kim Bragg and
tour the YUSA Studios/ Bragg Home. Choose
a near-by restaurant for dinner via majority
vote, then follow behind Bill & Kim ( in your
own vehicle ) as we go out to eat.
Click Here for a map
to Bill & Kim's home!
o8:00
PM
Meet back at the YUSA Studios / Bragg Home.
Tour the Celebrity Wardrobe Collection, see Bill
Haley's Guitar and Thomas Edison's Microscope.
Explore the YUSA Audio Archive ( containing over
50 thousand sound recordings ) and take another
ride on the indoor Amusement Part Train.
09:30 PM
Become a part of the Live
Studio Audience as Bill and Mike Handy ( in Ft.
Worth, TX. ) perform their
Nightly Live
Show.. Light refreshments will be
served.
11:00PM
Adjourn for the evening.
Thursday November 30th, 2006
( all times are listed in
Central Time )
06:00
PM
Meet at
2001 Plymouth Rock Drive, Richardson, TX.
75081 Meet Bill and Kim Bragg and
tour the YUSA Studios/ Bragg Home. Choose
a near-by restaurant for dinner via majority
vote, then follow behind Bill & Kim ( in your
own vehicle ) as we go out to eat.
Click Here for a map
to Bill & Kim's home!
o8:00
PM
Meet back at the YUSA Studios / Bragg Home
See a portion of the actual rock that was
excavated from the birthplace of Jesus Christ in
Bethlehem, view the YUSA on-air Automation
Playback System, tour the YUSA Executive Offices
and see Bill's collection of over 50 Edison,
Victor and Columbia wind-up phonographs, plus
the antique radios and television sets.
09:30 PM
Become a part of the Live
Studio Audience as Bill and Mike Handy ( in Ft.
Worth, TX. ) perform their
Nightly Live
Show.. Light refreshments will be
served.
11:00PM
Adjourn for the evening.
Friday December 1st, 2006
( all times are listed in
Central Time )
06:00
PM
Meet at
2001 Plymouth Rock Drive, Richardson, TX.
75081. Meet Bill and Kim Bragg and
tour the YUSA Studios/ Bragg Home. Attend
Kim's Big Surprise Birthday Party in the Bragg's
1950's Dinner! We will cook burgers and
hot dogs on the grill and serve thick malts &
cherry cokes, with home made ice cream for
desert! (
Please RSVP ) Everybody can
play the Pinball Machine, listen to the 50's
Juke Box or try your luck on a real Vegas Slot
Machine ( no winning prizes offered )!
Birthday gifts for Kim are not required ( but
will be very much appreciated since she will
be doing all this work on her own Birthday Party
)
Click Here for a map
to Bill & Kim's home!
09:30 PM
Become a part of the Live
Studio Audience as Walden and Frank Bresee ( in
Hollywood, CA. ) perform their
Friday Night Live
Show.. Light refreshments will be
served.
11:00PM
Help Kim with the dirty dishes and adjourn for
the evening.
Saturday December 2nd, 2006
( all times are listed in
Central Time )
10:00
AM
Meet at the
Arapaho Dart Rail Station
in Richardson, TX., hop aboard the South bound
Red Line DART Train to Union Station in Downtown
Dallas, TX. Click here for map to Dart
Rail Station. Enjoy a walking tour of
downtown Dallas. Choose one of the many
great restaurants located in Dallas' West End
Historical District (via a majority vote )
and enjoy a delicious Birthday Meal for Bill
( NOTE: Birthday Presents ARE REQUIRED,
cause Bill is Boss! )
o7:00
PM Board the
North bound Red Line Dart Train at Dart Union
Station and travel to the Arapaho Dart Rail
Station in Richardson, TX.
Adjourn the Reunion
and promise to return again next year!
AND SO
ENDS ANOTHER GREAT YESTERDAY USA FAMILY REUNION!
Reunion Rules
1.
The
Reunion is NOT open to the General Public,
because many of the planned activities will take place inside Bill & Kim's private
home! Therefore, only YUSA Listeners
(including Non Supporting Listeners)
are invited and allowed to attend.
2. If you don't like any of the YUSA On-Air
Personalities or Staff Members, then DON'T
attend! Persons who have created problems in the
past (or persons who are currently causing problems) for YUSA are not
welcomed.
3. Free admission (pay for all your own
expenses). Any dollar figures that may be listed are per person.
4. Provide for all your own round trip
transportation, meals and lodging.
5. Provide you own automobile while in Texas,
and be able to drive on your own in Texas
traffic (this includes use of the
freeways).
6. Attend all, or only part of, the planned
activities.
7. Because many of the planned activities
will take place inside Bill & Kim's private
home, no special provisions are available for
blind or handicapped persons.
8. Because of the nature of Bill & Kim's
house (there is a full size Amusement Park Train
Ride that runs through the inside of the house;
capable of transporting 6 adults), each blind
(or legally blind) person must be
accompanied by a fully sighted family member or
personal friend! Married couples who are both
blind maybe accompanied by the same sighted
family member or friend. NO exceptions,
please! Since Bill & Kim have a dog, a cat and
two parrots; NO service animals are allowed!
Our pets DO NOT UNDERSTAND the difference
between, the purpose of or the work performed by
Service Animals; and therefore consider them to
be hostile invaders of their personal space.
It would not be humane to subject our animals to
any un-necessary trauma or possible injury!!
9. Because Bill & Kim are not physically able
to lift more than 25 pounds, all handicapped
persons, who require assistance to move
about, must provide any and all of their
necessary assistance.
10. Because many of the planned activities will
take place inside Bill & Kim's private home, all
attendees must pre register in advance; so we
will know who will be entering our house.
11. No one is allowed to arrive before, or to
stay longer than, the announced Reunion dates
and times; without first receiving written
permission from Bill Bragg.
12. YUSA, will at all times, be held
harmless & blameless! The list of events are
subject to change with out notice.
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CLICK HERE
to see pictures of the 1998 YUSA Reunion.
CLICK HERE
to see pictures of the 2000 YUSA Reunion.
CLICK HERE
to see pictures of the 2000 Reunion Pool Party.
CLICK
HERE
to see pictures of the 2000 Reunion Tom Mix
Re-creation.
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