Radio

Mary had plenty of memories about radio in her day. She remembers her family having a big Phillips radio in the living room as a piece of furniture when she was a child and in her teens. Over the next couple years, her family got radios that were smaller as they came out. She remembers that first they had one console in the family living room, then after a while, there were 3 or 4 throughout the house. She didn't remember much of what she liked to listen to, but she remembered that her father liked to listen to "Barn Dance", which was a country-western music program.

Mary usually like to listen to the radio when she got home from school, at night after work, or whenever she could with her family. After a while as she got older, she would have her own smaller radio in her bedroom.

She remembers that a lot of the commercials were for baking products. One in particular that she mentioned was Clabber Girl Baking Soda. There were also a number of educational programs on the radio. Most of the were family based or political speakers.

There weren't too many problems with the radio set that her family had, but she was very quick to mention the static. They lived on a farm in rural Illinois, and there was terrible static, especially when there were storms around.


When FM radio was introduced, Mary said it was "a big, big plus", for her family. The reception out on the farm was much better. There were plenty of funny talk shows for the family.

In public places, Mary mentioned that some restaurants and diners had big nickelodeons, or machines where you could put in a nickel and play a song through the diner. Later on, they had individual little set-ups at each dining booth where you could sit at your place and choose a song, instead of getting up.

All in all, radio was something that was a big part of media when Mary was growing up.

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