Overview

​Scope and Content

Collection contains photographs, news clippings, and excerpts from publications.

Inez “Miss Inez” (Lackey) Teddlie (1911-2002) began working at WRR right out of high school. About 1932, she became an accompanist for several programs on WRR and ultimately passed up the opportunity to attend the University of Oklahoma because she liked her job at the station too much to leave.  In addition to her keyboard duties, Miss Inez produced the The Kiddie Show (it became the Dallas Stars of Tomorrow) and sang on Early Birds for WFAA radio.  She was likely best-known as the organist-arranger for the Dallas Rangers baseball team, the Dallas Chaparrals basketball team, and Dallas Blackhawks hockey team.  Teddlie was also a staff accompanist for the Greater Dallas Rotary Chorus for forty years traveling with them to Europe, Asia, and Australia.  Her final working years were spent playing at Luby's Cafeterias in the Dallas area.

Wilbur Irving Teddlie (1909-2000) was named by his mother, and his father reputedly said, “He just looks like his name is Pete to me.”  From then on, he was “Pete,” never using his birth name except in legal documents.  Pete worked at WRR almost thirty years and performed a plethora of duties including reporter, show host, event emcee, and program director, a role he held for some fifteen years.  He interviewed comedians, actors, and politicians and covered news events, such as the deaths of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow and the explosion of the New London, Texas, elementary school.  Teddlie’s tenure at WRR meant he not only worked in offices at the Hilton Hotel, the Southland Life Building, the first Fair Park building, and the Centennial Building but also witnessed the massive growth in the important of radio and WRR.  

On April 21, 1935, the WRR studios in the Southland Life Building served as the venue for the on-air wedding of Inez  and Pete.  She later stated, “I wasn’t too much for it, but I eventually gave in.  The station manager . . . thought it would be fun.  It was held right in the studio, and the staff orchestra played.  Back then they had a big pipe organ in Fair Park.  Since I really wanted to have a church wedding, I put my foot down and had them pipe in the processional.”  

This wedding was the second at WRR.  The first on-air WRR wedding occurred in 1922 between WRR announcer John Henry Stone and Inez Brady.  The third WRR wedding occurred in 1947 when Pauline Carroll married Richard Phillips in the theater of the second WRR location in Fair Park.

Dr Patricia Teddlie, Inez and Pete's daughter, donated this collection to the Dallas Municipal Archives.

​Organization

The collection is arranged first by WRR materials and second by non-WRR materials.

Access

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives.  All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.  The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Citation

Inez and Pete Teddlie WRR Collection (Box <x>, Folder <y>), Dallas Municipal Archives

Related materials

1991-024—WRR Municipal Radio, 1921-2020
2002-006—WRR Audiotape, 1991-1998
2023-005—George Potter WRR Photograph and Pamphlet Collection, 1926-1935

Index terms

Dallas -- Texas -- History
Radio broadcasting -- Texas -- Dallas
WRR-AM (Radio Station: Dallas, Tex.)
WRR-FM (Radio Station: Dallas, Tex.)

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