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The Kid At The Window
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By Sonny Melendrez
Early on in my radio career, weekday afternoons at 3, I would enter the control room in the original KTSA building located at 4050 Eisenhauer Road in San Antonio, Texas, to do what I have always loved: radio.Around 3:40 pm a vision would appear at the studio window that I have never forgotten. As I turned to look out, there, amid a field of Texas Bluebonnets, was an 11 year old boy sitting on his bicycle with a small portable radio taped to the handle bars.
He would sit, watch, listen, laugh, and learn.
Since no visitors were allowed in the control room, I would often go outside to say hello, offering him advice, encouragement and occasionally giving him record albums or movie passes.
These gifts were not why he came.
He wanted to be in radio one day. Shortly after 6 pm, as my show ended,
he would wave goodbye, put up his bicycle kickstand, and roll off back home.
In the summertime, while other children were spending the afternoon playing ball and swimming, he’d still appear at my window, often with a towel tied around his small neck and draped on his shoulders like Superman.
He was a small boy with big dreams.
Over the years, I had often wondered what ever became of him. Then, one day, decades later, I received an email that brought tears of joy.
The message was from “the kid at the window,” relating that after college graduation with a degree in communications, he landed his first job in radio, came up through the ranks and was now the general manager of a station in upstate New York.
He had made it.
He was writing to say thank you for my positive influence and mentioned that he never passed up an opportunity to help a novice along the way.
His letter served to remind me that we are never too young to dream and always in a position to inspire a fellow dreamer.
Sonny Melendrez
is an award-winning
motivational speaker,
Hall of Fame radio/TV
host and author, based
in San Antonio. For more
of his enthusiastic brand of inspiration and speaking information, visit his official site: www.SonnyMelendrez.com
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