Before TV and the internet there was radio

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

I'm sure no one here is old enough to remember those days :winking: but in case you are curious about what some of us old timers did for entertainment before[url] muzzloadingforum.com[/url] was ever dreamed of, take a look at this:

Radio shows

 

[No Powder]

Radio "Imagine That". ::

 

Before radio, there were books...

 

[roundball]

What a great site...thanks LEJ

 

[riarcher]

Hmmm,
I can remember Granny baby sitting me at her house and her favorite was "Amos and Andy".
Sometimes I'd listen to "The Shadow, and The Lone Ranger. That was it. Remember her saying, "Too much radio is bad for you." (Think she didn't want to wear out the old tubes :winking

 

[Zonie]

I always thought the neat thing about Radio was that the images were all in your mind. You would just close your eyes, and you were "there".

A number of years ago, I bought over 50 tapes of the original radio shows and still enjoy listening to them.

 

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

It's amazing how the mind can fill in the pictures using only studio sound effects - today they are called Foley artists. It took a lot of talent to put those shows together - most of which were done live.

If you listen to the shows produced during the war years, ( you hear them just as they were broadcast including the commersials ) there are a lot of patriotic themes for supporting the war, buying war bonds and giving up things toward the war effort. Amos and Addy's show even included post scripts about not talking to others about certain things, saying "loose lips sink ships". That website is a gold mine of entertainment and history.

 

[musketman]

It's amazing how the mind can fill in the pictures using only studio sound effects - today they are called Foley artists. It took a lot of talent to put those shows together - most of which were done live.

And Orson Wells was a master at it...

Remember his Oct. 30, 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast?

 

Yeh I remember them. I were bornt one year before the transistor was even invented. :cry:

 

[musketman]

Yeh I remember them. I were bornt one year before the transistor was even invented. :cry:

Would that make you a Vacuum Tube baby? :haha: :haha: :haha:

 

Gods, I miss the "CBS Mystery Radio Theatre" and "The Doctor Demento Show"! :curse: I even have two wind up radios! :haha:

 

[bob1961]

"The Doctor Demento Show"

i used to listen to that show on wmmr out of philadelphia on sunday nights at 9 :00 pm with all of the goof songs in the late 70"s..........................bob

 

[Gary]

Families use to entertain themselves - music, singing & reading. Then the radio stopped all that and the family glued their ears to the radio. Then in the '50s the TV became affordable and the brain cells went down. Violence increased too.

The worse blow came with the Internet. It beats smoke signals.