Radio Days

Radio days was interesting in class on Wednesday. Seeing that during the depression there wasn't extra money for entertainment such as the theater and Broadway plays we had learned about earlier. I found it really funny that the sound of radio at that time was something so new that people actually believed that the War of Worlds was actually happening. I suppose its similar to that of a 3-D movie today or a ride at an amusement park. The invention of radio seems like it is something that has evolved with culture and time but yet has remained the same in a sense. Radio is there to provide free entertainment. The entertainment can be in the form of music, news talk or other radio shows.
Listening to Andy Helps Rudy Make Amos Jealous on the Old Time Radio website kind of takes you back in time. Although I've never witnessed this time period, one can imagine it in your head. As the characters talked, I imagined what Andy or Amos looked like and also questioned why Rudy never spoke. You heard Andy speaking and asking questions, but you never heard Rudy. Maybe it was at this time, women were not featured in radio. Another clip I found was the Pearl Harbor attack. The technology that was developed at this time allowing London and America to communicate clearly over radio to deliver their news updates was fascinating. Seeing that the ability to connect like this at the early stages of radio allows me to understand more about how radio is today and how technology is rapidly evolving.