Listen closely to the airwaves of WMEX-FM, and you'll hear broadcasting legend Larry Justice come to life.
"In the halls of Justice," said Justice live on air. "Just kind of fiddling with fiddling. We have the greatest hits in the world!"
Justice has been a disk jockey for over five decades. It's not his job. It's who he is.
"By the time I was 10 years old, I was old enough to wire a radio into the speaker in my sister's bedroom and play radio," said Justice. "It's the reason I get up in the morning. I'm 85, and all my friends say, 'Larry, you're crazy. Go play golf.' I say, 'I don't want to play golf. I want to play radio!'"
Justice has been "playing radio" professionally for 55 years and is going strong . It all started at WMEX back in 1965.
"I started on [the show] 'Afternoon Drive,'" said Justice. "It was kind of an important slot. And then, after a while, I moved into the morning time slot."
He worked for two other stations in Boston for nearly 20 years before the biggest shock of his career.
"I got fired from ROFM!" said Justice. "It was the only time I was fired in my life. I came home and was having a pity party!"
Thanks to his wife, Beverly, that pity party didn't last long.
"She said, 'This is your opportunity to do what you've always wanted to do! Put together a group and buy a radio station!"
That's exactly what Justice did. In 1983, he purchased and operated WCIB-FM in Falmouth, Cape Cod.
"That was back in the day when there were no huge radio groups," said Justice. It was just, like, stations were individually owned."
He sold that station in the '90s before purchasing Boston's beloved WMEX-FM. For Justice, it was the station where it all started.
For Justice's daughter, Victoria Serino, watching her dad achieve his dreams has been the honor of a lifetime.
"I get so much joy out of listening to him," said Serino. "'Oh yeah, that's Dad. He's emceeing the Beatles. He's emceeing the Carpenters concert.' It wasn't until I was older that I really appreciated it. I'm so proud of him."
Thanks to his home studio, Justice can broadcast to Boston from Estero, where he lives now.
Although he hasn't told listeners he's not in Boston anymore, he suspects when they find out, they will have questions.
"You got some explainin' to do!" said Justice. "I think a lot of our listeners do know."
After more than five decades behind the mic, this June, Justice will be inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
"It's the music that keeps you alive," said Justice.
His voice will keep echoing between songs through the airwaves. His passion for radio has paid off and is just a dial away.
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