Dick Shale

Dick Shale was a pre-War voice actor hired to narrate and present many audio tours of popular tourist destinations in Appalachia.

Background
Shale's narrations included speaker booths at the sites themselves (such as the Uncanny Caverns audio tour) and holotapes distributed with audio information about popular Appalachian landmarks, presumably to be used by the listener as a self-guided audio tour of Appalachia.

The production value on these guided narrations was towards the low-end, and advertisements for various companies feature prominently in all and occasionally dominate the entire narration and uncut booth chatter can even be heard in one of the audio tour sessions. Despite the low production quality (or because of), Shale has many audio tours at several locations. He also took part in voicing several contests and prize giveaways, including the Pulowski Preservation Shelter Squat and the Red Rocket Gas-A-Thon. For the full list of Dick Shale's holotapes and tours, see below.

Audio tour stations

 * Colonel Kelly monument audio tour station
 * The Giant Teapot audio tour station
 * Miners monument audio tour station
 * Philippi Battlefield Cemetery audio tour station
 * Prickett's Fort audio tour stations
 * Uncanny Caverns audio tour stations

Holotapes

 * Appalachia landmarks - Philippi's Cemetery Battlefield
 * Appalachia landmarks - Pumpkin House
 * Appalachia landmarks - Prickett's Fort
 * The Golden Holotape

Appearances
Dick Shale is mentioned only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
Dick Shale was written by three different level designers, one of whom was Steve Massey, who wrote Shale's tour of Uncanny Caverns and The Golden Holotape. The character was developed to be an ego-inflated local celebrity in the tradition of the likes of Troy McClure.