Radio
The LUX RADIO THEATRE “Most Beautiful 15-Year-old Contest”
Part of our "strange beauty contest" series.It seems highly unlikely that any company could stage this today.
Full article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 23, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Radio, 1940s
Unauthorized Dwellings 10
Squatting AND pirate radio! A winning combo!
Source (where the text is bigger).
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 29, 2019 -
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Category: Radio, Unauthorized Dwellings, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s, United Kingdom
Michelin Hour
The short-lived Michelin Hour radio show, 1928, in which an orchestra of men dressed as tires played popular numbers and lighter classics.
Detroit Free Press - Apr 8, 1928
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 31, 2018 -
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Category: Radio, 1920s
Milton Metz, RIP
I never heard his radio show, but Milton Metz seems as if he were an amiably weird guy.
Obit here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 14, 2017 -
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Category: Celebrities, Communications, Radio, Regionalism
Newspapers by Radio Fax: 1930s
Newspapers transmitted into your living room by radio waves!
Get the whole fascinating history here. More fotos also at the link, but not the one above, which I found independently.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 16, 2016 -
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Category: Journalism, Radio, Technology, 1930s
The Incredible Shrinking Radio
Despite the technological trend being obvious in 1954, I don't think anyone--SF writers or scientists or futurists--really anticipated something like an iPod.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 29, 2015 -
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Category: Radio, Technology, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #237
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 19, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Radio, 1920s, Bodybuilding
It Pays to Be Ignorant
We could use such a satirical show today.
Full history here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 24, 2013 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Radio, Stupidity, Television, 1940s, 1950s
Life Before Cellphones
Original story here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 11, 2013 -
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Category: Radio, Chindogu, Children, Parents, 1930s
It Takes a Thief
Around here we like to laugh at thieves and applaud those who choose not to be victims.Here's one 'non-victim'.
Click here for the whole story.
Posted By: Expat47 - Thu Jun 20, 2013 -
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Category: Radio
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