National Radio Day

Tomorrow is National Radio Day.  

The Golden Age of radio is considered to be approximately from the 1930’s to the 1940’s. If you lived during the early 19th century the radio was an important part of your life.  

Your family likely gathered around the radio waiting with anticipation for a show.  Your parents turned the radio on and tuned it to a station then shushed you so everyone could hear.

As a child you might have enjoyed Little Orphan Annie, Flash Gordon or Amos ‘n’ Andy. There were also anthology shows with famous actors called The Lux Radio Theater.  

Did you listen to a reading of H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds?  Your sleep may have been filled with nightmares as a child unless you were shooed out of the room by your parents. 

Was there dancing in your living room?  Your parents could have fun dancing on the living room rug to the music of Arte Shaw, Tommy Dorsey or Benny Goodman.  Radio was fun for kids and adults.

The 1940’s brought a somber note to radio.  You lived through the second World War so there would have been radio broadcasts on updates from the front.  Foreign news correspondents shared breaking news and Franklin D. Roosevelt was often heard.  Hard times to gather around the radio during this time.

Television hit shortly after the war so the radio took a back seat in family life.  You could still listen to the radio in your room or in your car but television ranked higher with its visual appeal.

We imagine that your memories of radio bring you back to a special time in your life.  Listening and using your imagination to picture what you heard was very special. 

Private Home Health Care uses the radio in different ways now but it still plays an important role in our lives.  Turn it on and listen to some music or a radio show and enjoy.