After more than a year of looking, radio broadcaster Stan Turner has found a new home for his popular “All Request and Dedication Show.”

The show, off the air since KLBB-1220 in Stillwater went dark last year, will be broadcast out of a new space in Heimie’s Haberdashery in the Hamm Building in downtown St. Paul.

“Almost every day, someone asks me, ‘When are you coming back?’ ” Turner said. “The fact that it just hasn’t faded from memory is so, so gratifying. It gives us that impetus to say, ‘Let’s keep pushing and get this thing back up,’ and that’s what we are working toward.”

Anthony Andler, the proprietor of Heimie’s, at Wabasha and St. Peter streets, was a longtime sponsor of Turner’s show on KLBB. When he decided to expand his high-end men’s clothing store, doubling in size, he created space for Turner and company.

“We’re going to build a stage right here to do live broadcasts,” Andler said last week during a tour of the space previously occupied by the St. Paul Riverfront Development Corp. “We’ll have an ‘On Air’ sign, and people can sit and watch a live broadcast from Heimie’s.”

Said Turner: “We want to invite people to come in and listen. Radio you can watch. It’s radio of yesteryear, but very timely. It’s a perfect fit. It couldn’t be any better.”

Andler said he plans to have Turner host a podcast, stream online and, eventually, be back on the radio. They are in negotiations with Keith Johnson, who owns a low-power FM frequency in St. Paul; Andler and Turner hope to be on the air at 99.1 FM by June 1.

“I believe this will not only do well, but will be a service to the city of St. Paul in the interest of music and broadcast historical preservation,” Johnson said.

A STORY FOR EACH SONG

Here’s part of the playlist from one of Turner’s last “Request and Dedication” shows on KLBB: country star Terri Gibbs, Chuck Berry, novelty songs, Motown, some Johnny Mathis, local chanteuse Sharone LeMieux and Guy Marks singing “Loving You Has Made Me Bananas.”

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He’s expanded his book collection in the past year and plans to bring them all to his new office at Heimie’s. “I just picked up a biography of Brenda Lee,” he said. “Oh, and I have a new biography of the Temptations. It’s called ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.’ It’s full of great stuff. It’s grist for the mill — lots of anecdotes. It’s great storytelling, which is what I try and do on the show.”

GOOD FIT FROM THE BEGINNING

Turner, a former news anchor and news director at KSTP-TV and former news director for the Minnesota News Network, began broadcasting from KLBB in 2004. The first “Stan Turner Show,” which aired on Saturdays, featured Turner’s friend Don Boxmeyer, the Pioneer Press columnist who died in 2008.

Turner later added the all-request show, which aired noon to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Turner, a customer of Heimie’s, persuaded Andler to become a sponsor of his show in 2011, saying it would be a good fit for his brand.

During Andler’s first appearance on the show, he requested Bing Crosby’s “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” he said. “It was so cool. That song reminds me of being a retailer in a downtown set on a 1930s sidewalk operating as a proprietor of a bygone era.”

RADIO’S RETURN TO HAMM BUILDING

Andler’s new radio station won’t be the first radio station to broadcast out of the Hamm Building; WMIN used to broadcast out of the building in the 1940s and 1950s.

In fact, Twin Cities media personality Bill Diehl’s first radio job was filling in for Sev Widman on WMIN’s 6 to 9 a.m. morning show, said Rick Shefchik, the author of “Everybody’s Heard About the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock ‘n’ Roll in Minnesota.”

“WMIN is the historic precursor to KLBB, when that station was broadcast on AM 1400, so KLBB would be returning to its original location,” he said.

‘A CANDY STORE FOR ADULTS’

Heimie’s — known for high-end clothing, tailor work, haircuts and shoeshines — is expanding to add women’s suits, cigars, gourmet coffees and a “virtual” gun library. The company’s canvas and leather cases will be manufactured in the building’s basement; the radio station and Turner’s office will be on the mezzanine level of the expanded space.

Andler, 52, grew up in Cottage Grove. He got his start in the clothing business at age 13, working for his grandfather, Ralph Andler, who owned a men’s clothing store on Robert Street. His great-grandfather, Heimie Andler, was a tailor, he said.

“Ralph was Heimie’s son, and what his dad taught him about the garment business, he then taught me,” he said. “I grew up under his sewing machine and was press-boy extraordinaire. I listened and watched my grandpa in conversations both loud and subtle as he navigated his way through business every day. He’d say, ‘If you treat people like you do your zipper, it will last a lifetime. Soft and gentle; don’t pull too hard.’ ”

Andler went to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he studied filmmaking and acting. His shop looks like a movie set. It’s beautifully decorated with antiques — some of which Turner helped him find.

“I’m a picker for him,” said Turner, who stops by the store almost every afternoon.

“He calls me at 2 o’clock in the morning … and breathes loud and says, ‘I got the radio,’ ” Andler said.

“That humidor, I found that at Wescott Station on West Seventh,” Turner said. “This is part antique store, part entertainment venue, part barber shop, and, oh by the way, clothing store, too. It’s one man’s creativity that has turned into reality. This is a candy store for adults.”

RECONNECTING WITH HIS AUDIENCE

Shefchik said he and other loyal listeners of Turner’s show have missed it terribly.

“I think there’s a real pent-up yearning for a show that mixes many styles of music with interesting background stories on the artists and songwriters,” said Shefchik, who also is a former reporter and columnist for the Pioneer Press. “Stan would be reconnecting with an established audience eager to welcome him back.”

Turner’s show “fits in our wheelhouse,” Andler said. “There is a rediscovery of connecting with the Golden Era, the Golden Era of anything, because we are all searching to belong as consumers. There is room for educating younger people about music, and how it was made, and how it was projected, and how it was distributed.

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Andler also plans to develop other shows that will be broadcast throughout the day, but Turner’s show will be the cornerstone.

“If not for you, nothing,” he said to Turner.

“Oh, sine qua non. Where’s my Latin when I need it?” Turner responded.