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WBCN to leave the air next month; Smith & Hawken gone now

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July 14, 2009 11:29 pm
By Sheila Lennon

Once upon a time, every song you'd want to hear was played on Boston "progressive rock" station WBCN 104.1, but that was a ways back.

Globe:

...on August 12, WBCN, "the Rock of Boston," will cease to exist on the FM airwaves after 41 years. ... WBCN will become a Web-only operation available at www.wbcn.com. -- Final chord for the Rock of Boston


The Globe, bless 'em, puts up the faces of BCN radio folk through the years, including the late astrologer Darrell Martinie, The Cosmic Muffin: Gallery1968 - 2009


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From the Globe archives: On top in rock: Boston's 'BCN remains the station others try to beat By Jim Sullivan Special To The Globe / January 12, 1986.


Vaguely related: Smith & Hawken is Dead. Long Live Smith & Hawken. at Garden Rant. In later years, S&H, too, drifted (after its sale to Scotts Miracle-Gro in 2004, its way-too-pricey garden furniture, arches and pergolas seemed far from its good-tools roots.)

The catalog and Web site are no more; stores are having going-out-of-business sales.

Smith & Hawken, Ltd. Profile and History:

Believing he was not the only one frustrated by the lack of natural foods in the marketplace, he (Paul Hawkin) decided in 1967 to start the first natural food store in Boston, one of the first in the entire country. With just $500 he established Erewhon Trading Company...

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