Thursday, May 31, 2012
A Nevada icon, Chandler Laughlin, aka Travis T. Hipp, has passed on peacefully to the great radio station in the sky.
A bagpipe rang out as he was buried Silver City Style in a plain pine box crafted by his friend, Tom Byron, in the Silver City Cemetery. He was surrounded by his family, and his good friends and neighbors. His burial was celebrated by Mother Nature with one of those high speed Nevada wind and rain storms at the beginning of the service, but the weather settled down quickly.
His friends hand-dug the grave over several days and Chan was lowered in. A touching addition was that his dog, who had been sick, died two days before the funeral and was buried with him, an irony that Chan would have liked. Chan was buried next to his wife, well known singer, Lynne Hughes, who passed ten years ago. Chan and Lynne lived in the old converted church in Silver City where they were famous for picking up strays – both dogs and humans. They were generous and social and many a night friends would gather around their dining table snacking on Mexican food, drinking beer, singing songs, and telling tall tales. Chan was one of the best storytellers ever!
Under his nom deplume, Travis T. Hipp was a very well known radio commentator in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and right here in Nevada. His progressive opinions were much admired by many and not so much by less open-minded others. Many of his old friends and listeners from all over the west were in Silver City for the funeral. The wake was held at the Community Center following the interment and featured many old pals celebrating his life eating pot luck supper and listening to great music by Lacy J. Dalton, Tommy Thomsen, and many other local musicians. Stories abounded about Travis's life adventures, and old friends spoke of how much he will be missed.
Chan came to the Comstock in the 1960s from the music scene in the Bay Area as one of the instigators for the Red Dog Saloon's era. He booked The Charlatans into the Red Dog, and rest was history. Many of the people who were involved in the original Red Dog Saloon in the 1960s still live on or around the Comstock.
Rinn Wright, who had known Chan and Lynne since the Red Dog days. said that Chandler was the "paymaster and social director for the Red Dog. He paid all of us and booked all the bands. He was an interesting guy."
Dave Moore, long-time newsman and retired Editor of Nevada Magazine, met Chan in 1974. He remembers when he interviewed him for Nevada Magazine for a story on the Red Dog and he said it was a wonderful experience. "I enjoyed going over to his church sitting round table and going over the story." He continued that "Travis had a radio hook-up in the Ormsby House and he covered the legislature. He would grab various legislators as they walked by and interview them. He was always well informed and interested in everyday news. He didn't live in the past.
A celebration of Chandler's life will be held in Silver City at a later date so that his many friends who couldn't make it to the funeral can come and remember a man who was one of a kind!
∼Chandler Laughlin aka Travus T Hipp
Hipp was born Chandler Atchison Laughlin Jr. to Chandler and Nan Curtis Laughlin in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Berkeley High School and Monterey Peninsula College and attended the University of California at Berkeley.
He became a radio star, working at the legendary album rock KSAN-FM in San Francisco as an investigative reporter in the early seventies, even being sent to cover the civil war in Yemen. But he also found a home in Reno, hosting talk shows on KOH-AM and KQLO-AM, and doing commentary on KTHX-FM. He became a member of the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and hosted the "Rawhide Reality Review," heard on stations around the country. He also wrote a regular column for the Sparks Tribune.
A strong union man, he once marched through downtown Reno with union members campaigning for hotel-casino worker rights. Politically, he was a Goldwater Republican.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Longtime_Radio_Personality_Hipp_Dies_at_75_153426455.html
Posted: Wed 10:00 PM, May 23, 2012
Updated: Thu 1:11 PM, May 24, 2012
A Nevada icon, Chandler Laughlin, aka Travis T. Hipp, has passed on peacefully to the great radio station in the sky.
A bagpipe rang out as he was buried Silver City Style in a plain pine box crafted by his friend, Tom Byron, in the Silver City Cemetery. He was surrounded by his family, and his good friends and neighbors. His burial was celebrated by Mother Nature with one of those high speed Nevada wind and rain storms at the beginning of the service, but the weather settled down quickly.
His friends hand-dug the grave over several days and Chan was lowered in. A touching addition was that his dog, who had been sick, died two days before the funeral and was buried with him, an irony that Chan would have liked. Chan was buried next to his wife, well known singer, Lynne Hughes, who passed ten years ago. Chan and Lynne lived in the old converted church in Silver City where they were famous for picking up strays – both dogs and humans. They were generous and social and many a night friends would gather around their dining table snacking on Mexican food, drinking beer, singing songs, and telling tall tales. Chan was one of the best storytellers ever!
Under his nom deplume, Travis T. Hipp was a very well known radio commentator in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and right here in Nevada. His progressive opinions were much admired by many and not so much by less open-minded others. Many of his old friends and listeners from all over the west were in Silver City for the funeral. The wake was held at the Community Center following the interment and featured many old pals celebrating his life eating pot luck supper and listening to great music by Lacy J. Dalton, Tommy Thomsen, and many other local musicians. Stories abounded about Travis's life adventures, and old friends spoke of how much he will be missed.
Chan came to the Comstock in the 1960s from the music scene in the Bay Area as one of the instigators for the Red Dog Saloon's era. He booked The Charlatans into the Red Dog, and rest was history. Many of the people who were involved in the original Red Dog Saloon in the 1960s still live on or around the Comstock.
Rinn Wright, who had known Chan and Lynne since the Red Dog days. said that Chandler was the "paymaster and social director for the Red Dog. He paid all of us and booked all the bands. He was an interesting guy."
Dave Moore, long-time newsman and retired Editor of Nevada Magazine, met Chan in 1974. He remembers when he interviewed him for Nevada Magazine for a story on the Red Dog and he said it was a wonderful experience. "I enjoyed going over to his church sitting round table and going over the story." He continued that "Travis had a radio hook-up in the Ormsby House and he covered the legislature. He would grab various legislators as they walked by and interview them. He was always well informed and interested in everyday news. He didn't live in the past.
A celebration of Chandler's life will be held in Silver City at a later date so that his many friends who couldn't make it to the funeral can come and remember a man who was one of a kind!
∼Chandler Laughlin aka Travus T Hipp
Hipp was born Chandler Atchison Laughlin Jr. to Chandler and Nan Curtis Laughlin in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Berkeley High School and Monterey Peninsula College and attended the University of California at Berkeley.
He became a radio star, working at the legendary album rock KSAN-FM in San Francisco as an investigative reporter in the early seventies, even being sent to cover the civil war in Yemen. But he also found a home in Reno, hosting talk shows on KOH-AM and KQLO-AM, and doing commentary on KTHX-FM. He became a member of the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and hosted the "Rawhide Reality Review," heard on stations around the country. He also wrote a regular column for the Sparks Tribune.
A strong union man, he once marched through downtown Reno with union members campaigning for hotel-casino worker rights. Politically, he was a Goldwater Republican.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Longtime_Radio_Personality_Hipp_Dies_at_75_153426455.html
Posted: Wed 10:00 PM, May 23, 2012
Updated: Thu 1:11 PM, May 24, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A Nevada icon, Chandler Laughlin, aka Travis T. Hipp, has passed on peacefully to the great radio station in the sky.
A bagpipe rang out as he was buried Silver City Style in a plain pine box crafted by his friend, Tom Byron, in the Silver City Cemetery. He was surrounded by his family, and his good friends and neighbors. His burial was celebrated by Mother Nature with one of those high speed Nevada wind and rain storms at the beginning of the service, but the weather settled down quickly.
His friends hand-dug the grave over several days and Chan was lowered in. A touching addition was that his dog, who had been sick, died two days before the funeral and was buried with him, an irony that Chan would have liked. Chan was buried next to his wife, well known singer, Lynne Hughes, who passed ten years ago. Chan and Lynne lived in the old converted church in Silver City where they were famous for picking up strays – both dogs and humans. They were generous and social and many a night friends would gather around their dining table snacking on Mexican food, drinking beer, singing songs, and telling tall tales. Chan was one of the best storytellers ever!
Under his nom deplume, Travis T. Hipp was a very well known radio commentator in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and right here in Nevada. His progressive opinions were much admired by many and not so much by less open-minded others. Many of his old friends and listeners from all over the west were in Silver City for the funeral. The wake was held at the Community Center following the interment and featured many old pals celebrating his life eating pot luck supper and listening to great music by Lacy J. Dalton, Tommy Thomsen, and many other local musicians. Stories abounded about Travis's life adventures, and old friends spoke of how much he will be missed.
Chan came to the Comstock in the 1960s from the music scene in the Bay Area as one of the instigators for the Red Dog Saloon's era. He booked The Charlatans into the Red Dog, and rest was history. Many of the people who were involved in the original Red Dog Saloon in the 1960s still live on or around the Comstock.
Rinn Wright, who had known Chan and Lynne since the Red Dog days. said that Chandler was the "paymaster and social director for the Red Dog. He paid all of us and booked all the bands. He was an interesting guy."
Dave Moore, long-time newsman and retired Editor of Nevada Magazine, met Chan in 1974. He remembers when he interviewed him for Nevada Magazine for a story on the Red Dog and he said it was a wonderful experience. "I enjoyed going over to his church sitting round table and going over the story." He continued that "Travis had a radio hook-up in the Ormsby House and he covered the legislature. He would grab various legislators as they walked by and interview them. He was always well informed and interested in everyday news. He didn't live in the past.
A celebration of Chandler's life will be held in Silver City at a later date so that his many friends who couldn't make it to the funeral can come and remember a man who was one of a kind!
∼Chandler Laughlin aka Travus T Hipp
Hipp was born Chandler Atchison Laughlin Jr. to Chandler and Nan Curtis Laughlin in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Berkeley High School and Monterey Peninsula College and attended the University of California at Berkeley.
He became a radio star, working at the legendary album rock KSAN-FM in San Francisco as an investigative reporter in the early seventies, even being sent to cover the civil war in Yemen. But he also found a home in Reno, hosting talk shows on KOH-AM and KQLO-AM, and doing commentary on KTHX-FM. He became a member of the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and hosted the "Rawhide Reality Review," heard on stations around the country. He also wrote a regular column for the Sparks Tribune.
A strong union man, he once marched through downtown Reno with union members campaigning for hotel-casino worker rights. Politically, he was a Goldwater Republican.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Longtime_Radio_Personality_Hipp_Dies_at_75_153426455.html
Posted: Wed 10:00 PM, May 23, 2012
Updated: Thu 1:11 PM, May 24, 2012
A Nevada icon, Chandler Laughlin, aka Travis T. Hipp, has passed on peacefully to the great radio station in the sky.
A bagpipe rang out as he was buried Silver City Style in a plain pine box crafted by his friend, Tom Byron, in the Silver City Cemetery. He was surrounded by his family, and his good friends and neighbors. His burial was celebrated by Mother Nature with one of those high speed Nevada wind and rain storms at the beginning of the service, but the weather settled down quickly.
His friends hand-dug the grave over several days and Chan was lowered in. A touching addition was that his dog, who had been sick, died two days before the funeral and was buried with him, an irony that Chan would have liked. Chan was buried next to his wife, well known singer, Lynne Hughes, who passed ten years ago. Chan and Lynne lived in the old converted church in Silver City where they were famous for picking up strays – both dogs and humans. They were generous and social and many a night friends would gather around their dining table snacking on Mexican food, drinking beer, singing songs, and telling tall tales. Chan was one of the best storytellers ever!
Under his nom deplume, Travis T. Hipp was a very well known radio commentator in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and right here in Nevada. His progressive opinions were much admired by many and not so much by less open-minded others. Many of his old friends and listeners from all over the west were in Silver City for the funeral. The wake was held at the Community Center following the interment and featured many old pals celebrating his life eating pot luck supper and listening to great music by Lacy J. Dalton, Tommy Thomsen, and many other local musicians. Stories abounded about Travis's life adventures, and old friends spoke of how much he will be missed.
Chan came to the Comstock in the 1960s from the music scene in the Bay Area as one of the instigators for the Red Dog Saloon's era. He booked The Charlatans into the Red Dog, and rest was history. Many of the people who were involved in the original Red Dog Saloon in the 1960s still live on or around the Comstock.
Rinn Wright, who had known Chan and Lynne since the Red Dog days. said that Chandler was the "paymaster and social director for the Red Dog. He paid all of us and booked all the bands. He was an interesting guy."
Dave Moore, long-time newsman and retired Editor of Nevada Magazine, met Chan in 1974. He remembers when he interviewed him for Nevada Magazine for a story on the Red Dog and he said it was a wonderful experience. "I enjoyed going over to his church sitting round table and going over the story." He continued that "Travis had a radio hook-up in the Ormsby House and he covered the legislature. He would grab various legislators as they walked by and interview them. He was always well informed and interested in everyday news. He didn't live in the past.
A celebration of Chandler's life will be held in Silver City at a later date so that his many friends who couldn't make it to the funeral can come and remember a man who was one of a kind!
∼Chandler Laughlin aka Travus T Hipp
Hipp was born Chandler Atchison Laughlin Jr. to Chandler and Nan Curtis Laughlin in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Berkeley High School and Monterey Peninsula College and attended the University of California at Berkeley.
He became a radio star, working at the legendary album rock KSAN-FM in San Francisco as an investigative reporter in the early seventies, even being sent to cover the civil war in Yemen. But he also found a home in Reno, hosting talk shows on KOH-AM and KQLO-AM, and doing commentary on KTHX-FM. He became a member of the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and hosted the "Rawhide Reality Review," heard on stations around the country. He also wrote a regular column for the Sparks Tribune.
A strong union man, he once marched through downtown Reno with union members campaigning for hotel-casino worker rights. Politically, he was a Goldwater Republican.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Longtime_Radio_Personality_Hipp_Dies_at_75_153426455.html
Posted: Wed 10:00 PM, May 23, 2012
Updated: Thu 1:11 PM, May 24, 2012
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