Eliot Stein confesses that luck wasn't the only reason he and his brother, Neil, won prize after prize on KGB, KCBQ and other Top 40 radio phone sweepstakes 50 years ago.
For decades, Eliot Stein has kept mum about something that bewildered San Diego fans of Top 40 radio music in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
Neil won $1,000 and they raked in multiple smaller cash awards. They also won hundreds of albums, records, free dinners at restaurants, tickets to attractions such as SeaWorld, Belmont Park and the Zoo, gift certificates and a truckload of merchandise. Neil Stein and his twin brother Eliot graduated from Coronado High School in 1970. They built a reputation for winning.
Purely by luck, Eliot stumbled on a way to manipulate the system. “I haven’t told anybody about this for all these years,” he told me. Eliot turned 70 in January, and he decided it was time to spill the beans. “This will resonate with every Baby Boomer who grew up in San Diego.”The boys merely stopped mid-call — not dialing the final two digits of the contest phone number.
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