6GZ, Bakersifeld, CA, 1916

1916FebPM

Shown here is the radio station at Kern County High School, Bakersfield, California, as depicted in the February, 1916, issue of Popular Mechanics.  The accompanying article notes that the school has a course in wireless telegraphy, with a course in wireless telephony being added.

According to the 1916 call book, the station was licensed as 6GZ, under the control of one A.J. Ludden.