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Bobby Darin and I met in 1959 while I was a deejay at KGW/Portland. He came by to promote his upcoming show. I handed Bobby the mike and let him play deejay. This man was a solid entertainer. From my Soundcloud channel, Red Robinson's Legends. https://t.co/aO8UTaTTlS pic.twitter.com/a2nl8cPoOy — Red Robinson (@deejayred) December 6, 2018…

Sunday drag races at Abbotsford Airport, 1955. I didn't actually drive this car because I didn't have a license yet! My uncle Chuck was one of the founders of the BC Custom Car Association and we drove the track in his '32 Ford! #TBT pic.twitter.com/WwklRHGY3w — Red Robinson (@deejayred) November 15, 2018…

My thanks to Harbour Publishing and author Robin Brunet for permission to use this excerpt from Red Robinson: The Last Deejay. “But there was also a sense that Vancouver wasn’t changing fast enough, and as intangible as that feeling may have been, it was enough to compel Robinson in early 1959 to accept an invitation…

View this post on Instagram Boo! A post shared by Red Robinson (@redrobinson_1) on Oct 27, 2018 at 1:37pm PDT…

View this post on Instagram I just found this old #Vancouver Lifestyles magazine with a great Fred Latremouille cover pic and @joeleary interview.This week in 1945, the legendary Vancouver #radio deejay was born in Nanaimo. Fred left us too soon in March 2015 at age 69. More: http://bit.ly/2JcRWYV A post shared by Red Robinson (@redrobinson_1)…