RADIO: AN IMPORTANT PART OF MY PERSONAL LIFE

These graphics bring back crystal clear memories of that wonderful media known as "broadcast radio" which was a very necessary part of every family back during the 20's through the 1950's. The engraving above shows a typical 1930's family gathered around the radio.
My interest in radio is with me even up to today as I have assembled a vast collection of "OTR" as in "old time radio" transcriptions which have been converted to a medium that lets me listen to those old time episodes of "Superman," "Terry and the Pirates," and countless other programs in my digital collection. At the present time I am listening to "The Ave Maria" hour which was a network program presented by the Greymoor Fathers in upstate New York It is a multi episode transcription on the life of Jesus and I listen to it every night as I am slowly slipping off to sleep.

As to the lower photos, those are the two radio receives I used during my clandestine cloak and dagger mission with the Army Security Agency back in the 1950's when I was stationed first in Germany, then down to Northern Italy where I evesdropped.

1964: HI TECH IN FLIGHT TELEVISION!

As that old cigarette commercial had for a slogan back in the day, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby,"here is mute testimony to that fact. As I read this ad from a 1964 TIME magazine article, I assured myself that they couldn't watch live television while in the air traveling away from the transmitting antenna of a specific city. Apparently they were using one of those newfangled "Betamax" tape recorders.

2014: MY SUNDAY "SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY" COLUMN IN THE TIMES

Thanks to Mr. Dennis Hawver of West Windsor for this interesting link to the 1950's in the Delaware Valley.  

Dennis wrote:
 
Liked your Sunday column on earlier TV. Here's a video from only 58 years ago (only???)

Notice all the things and places that aren't there anymore!
Thought you might like to re-see a little history ---

This is a Mid-Fifties slice of life and landscape in Philadelphia and its surrounding towns, with excellent color footage of downtown scenes, neighborhoods, the Mummers Parade, Levittown, factories in Camden, NJ, and many other subjects that can no longer be seen.

It was produced at the time by WPTZ Channel 3, now known as KYW CBS 3. Pete Boyle Sr., father of Pete Boyle, cast member of Everybody Loves Raymond, had a children's show and is briefly shown in this clip. Some good shots of Dock Street as well. Notice too that all the cars shown are American!

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http://www.archive.org/details/Miracleo1955