Post 2 was granted a Bingo License by the City of Bristol Chief of Police on November 11th 1964. In the first year the Post was making roughly $85 dollars per week and growing. Robert Hartney and Robert Peterson were the co-chairmen. In the first year they turned over $1385.21 to the Post. The Post advertised on WBIS radio station in Bristol, CT at a cost of $40 for the contract with 20 radio slots being broadcast at $2 each. Here are the transcripts of those Broadcasts------
"BINGO COMES TO THE AMERICAN LEGION HALL...HOOKER COURT...THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING AT 7:30.
SPONSORED BY THE SEICHEPREY POST #2 ---AMERICAN LEGION BINGO AT THE LEGION HALL WILL BE A REGULAR WEDNESDAY NIGHT OUT FOR LOTS OF BRISTOL AREA FOLKS.
REMEMBER...BINGO... AT THE LEGION HOME ON HOOKER COURT STARTING THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING AT 7:30."
"SEICHEPREY---IT STARTS TONIGHT... BINGO AT THE AMERICAN LEGION HOME... HOOKER COURT IN BRISTOL.
SEICHEPREY POST #2 ...AMERICAN LEGION INVITES YOU TO JOIN YOUR FRIENDS TONIGHT AND EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR BINGO AT THE LEGION HALL ON HOOKER COURT IN BRISTOL."
You can almost see the DJ and hear his deep cycling voice crackling over the airwaves-----------
