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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published Aug. 5, 2020

Pat O鈥橠ay passed away Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 at his San Juan Island home. O鈥橠ay is best known for his work as a radio deejay on station KJR in Seattle in the 1960s, but he was also a concert promoter, hydroplane race announcer, and a candid survivor of substance abuse.

Born Paul Berg in Nebraska in 1934, he came with his family to the Northwest in January 1942 when his father took a job in Tacoma. O鈥橠ay worked at a number of radio stations in the area beginning in the 1950s, but really hit his stride and honed his classic broadcasting style at KJR as deejay, program director and, eventually, general manager. At KJR, O鈥橠ay assembled a team of broadcast legends, including Gary Lockwood, Charlie Brown, Emperor Smith, and Lan Roberts.

Pat O鈥橠ay loved radio and local history, and was always willing to help me with 成人X站 Newsradio stories 鈥� and other projects 鈥� about a range of topics over the years, including:

Cruising Colby Avenue in Everett

Pat describes the intimate relationship between radio broadcasters and listeners 鈥� especially young listeners in their cars.

Hydroplanes Echo Through Seattle History

Pat weighs in on the true meaning of decades of hydroplane racing and hydro culture in the Northwest.

Street Hydros Capture the Imagination of Seattle Youth

Pat puts bicycle-drawn 鈥渟treet hydros鈥� into context, and calls a fantasy race between John Keister, Bill Wixey, Dave Dederer . . . and a darkhorse radio historian.

The Mighty Day The Needle Hit The Ground

Pat helps solve a 1962 Seattle World鈥檚 Fair mystery about a local parody folk song.

Pat yanks the Beatles away from the press, and vintage audio captures the moment when he says, 鈥淚t鈥檚 eight minutes to show time!鈥�

How could KJR鈥檚 Santa Claus 鈥� the real Santa Claus, by the way 鈥� be in so many places at once? Pat spills the yuletide beans.

Pat explains how he helped launch Tacoma instrumental phenoms The Ventures, with a few twists of his mighty KJR 45rpm turntable

In an oral history recorded in the 1970s, Pat describes how he got his durable on-air name.

Rest in peace, Pat. It鈥檚 nice to know that all those years of your live radio broadcasts are still headed out beyond the galaxy, waiting to be tuned in by some intergalactic teenager at the controls of his space pod somewhere.

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