Reggie Bridges’s Shotgun House, WATG Radio, and the Unofficial Museum of Brooklyn

Posted on February 4, 2017 | 1 Comment

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For half a century, Reginald Bridges’s 544 square foot shotgun house has hummed with the magnetic density of Brooklyn’s long life. Most much larger houses have lived far less.

Reggie and Harold operated WATG Radio from the back yard and transmitted via cable across Spruce Street to Brooklyn Park. The station might not have transmitted far, but the whole neighborhood listened.

Now we’re looking together at a grainy photograph of a little boy in a suit standing on a Brooklyn sidewalk half a century ago. If you could photograph time, you’d have this very photograph.

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One response to “Reggie Bridges’s Shotgun House, WATG Radio, and the Unofficial Museum of Brooklyn”

bill miniaci Pratt | March 4, 2017 at 1:09 pm |

I WAS watg chief engineer and still Reggies best friend since the early days at watg I now live in Cambodia and teach english Reggie and I go back to 1972 😀

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