1931: RADIO COMING OF AGE

FROM ITS INCEPTION IN THE 1920'S, RADIO REALLY BEGAN TO BECOME A NECESSARY PART OF AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 1930'S. BY THE LATE 1930'S NETWORK RADIO WAS AS IMPORTANT TO AMERICAN AS TODAY'S TELEVISION. (AND THE PROGRAMMING WAS SUPERIOR!)

1930: WHEN RADIO WAS KING

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE ESCAPE FOR THOSE OF US WHO RECALL THE MAGIC OF BROADCAST RADIO! MOM COULD READ A BOOK, DAD THE NEWSPAPER, AND WE KIDS COULD PLAY WITH OUR ERECTOR SET WHILE LISTENING TO AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER OF RADIO PROGRAMS. FROM "MR. KEENE, TRACER OF LOST PERSONS," TO "YOUR FBI IN PEACE AND WAR," TO THE "LUX RADIO THEATER," "CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, AND OH SO MANY EXCITING BROADCASTS THAT USED THE "THEATER OF THE MIND."

1922: LONG BEFORE TRANSISTORS AND PORTABLES

THIS YOUNG LAD PROBABLY WENT ON TO BECOME A RADIO AMATEUR. HERE HE PROUDLY EXHIBITS HIS MOBIL BROADCAST RADIO PROVING THAT HE WAS RIGHT IN THE MIX WITH THE BROADCASTING CRAZE WHICH WAS SWEEPING AMERICA.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE OFFSET PHOTO PROCESS IN THE 20'S WAS LACKING IN MANY RESPECTS....ONE OF WHICH WAS THE DIFFICULTY IN PRINTING A CLEAR IMAGE. HOWEVER, IT IS STILL INTERESTING TO SEE HOW BROADCAST RADIO, SCARCELY TWO YEARS OLD, WAS CAPTURING THE IMAGINATION OF AMERICA'S YOUTH.

1922: RADIO OUT OF CONTROL

I found this article of great interest. Broadcast radio was only a couple of years old when the airwaves were filled with very strange transmissions.