If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.