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Experiencing the Golden Years of Radio in the 1940s

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This content highlights how radio programming served as a vital source of entertainment and communal bonding for residents of Ridgeway during economically challenging times, particularly the Great Depression and periods surrounding the World Wars.

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Narrator: Money was tight when Everett took his photographs.

Buffeted by two world wars and the lingering hardships of the depression, the residents

of Ridgeway coped as best they could.

Dancing to big bands and gathering around radios to listen to their favorite programs

were welcome diversions to the economic realities of the time.

[ Radio Broadcast ]

Announcer: The Amos and Andy Show!

John Moe, Ridgeway High School Alumnus: I remember Amos and Andy.

That was one where the family got together to listen to that.

Bob McQueen, Ridgeway High School Alumnus: We used to hurry home from school.

There were programs for youngsters.

I remember Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy sponsored by Wheaties cereal, and I think

there was Little Orphan Annie, and there were a number of shows, Buck Rogers or Buck Jones

or something like that.

That was youngsters and that normally needed around 6:00.

Then we had normally our evening meal, and then the evenings at our home, the radio became

the priority of my parents.

If it was something that they weren’t interested, maybe I could use the radio.

But my turn was after school ‘til dinner time.

After that it was their turn.

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