The Golden Age of Radio celebrates the Irish and St. Patrick’s Day with a helping of “Duffy’s Tavern” when it meets Thursday, March 6, at 1 p.m. in the Fountain Hills Community Center.

“Duffy’s Tavern” is an old-time-radio classic that ran for a decade on several networks and concluded on NBC with the broadcast of December 28, 1951.

The program opened with Ed Gardner answering the phone with his regular greeting, “Hello, Duffy’s Tavern, where the elite meet to eat. Archie the manager speakin’. Duffy ain’t here—oh, hello, Duffy.”

This became the most famous of all radio introductions, according to a press release.

As the star of the show, Archie was prone to involvement in get-rich-quick schemes and romantic missteps, constantly communicated with malaprops and mixed metaphors.

Gardner had performed the character of Archie for over a decade, starting on Nov. 9, 1939, when he appeared on NBC’s “Good News of 1940.”

This and other classic radio programs are archived in the Golden Age of Radio Bruce Florence Library, an extensive collection of timeless radio broadcasts on records, tapes and CDs.

Community Center membership is required to attend Golden Age of Radio meetings.

For more information, contact Bill Whittaker at 480-837-7961 or the Community Center at 480-816-5200.

From the twilight of the Jazz Age to the dawn of the Space Age, the Golden Age of Radio celebrates the reign of the first electronic medium, the then-modern miracle that brought news, entertainment and information into homes throughout a significant period of history.