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From TMW, exactly 100 years ago.

Interesting! Thank you for sharing it.

Love this! and they used a Chippendale to broadcast music in 1921. Radios were still very primitive at that time!

No internet, no mobile phones, no social media. Happy simple stress free days!

epigramophone wrote:No internet, no mobile phones, no social media. Happy simple stress free days!

Nostalgia: memories without the pain. I do like the simpler things, but it would be hard to give up the modern comforts, medicines, rights and technology. The Great Depression and WWII were still to come. I think that we tend to romanticize about the past, but it was a hard life.

Very cool post. Thanks for sharing. Four to five miles of coverage. I’m sure that it was a marvel at the time.

Django wrote:

epigramophone wrote:No internet, no mobile phones, no social media. Happy simple stress free days!

Nostalgia: memories without the pain. I do like the simpler things, but it would be hard to give up the modern comforts, medicines, rights and technology. The Great Depression and WWII were still to come. I think that we tend to romanticize about the past, but it was a hard life.

Very cool post. Thanks for sharing. Four to five miles of coverage. I’m sure that it was a marvel at the time.

...and "Let Us Not Forget," in 1921 the world was less than three years out from the end of World War I, with all its own horrors and all the social and political upheaval that came in its wake, and the Spanish 'Flu pandemic, which did not spur rapid development of a promising vaccine. Meanwhile, polio was a constant threat to children--and, albeit to a lesser extent, adults!--everywhere.

That said, the scourge of Twitter hadn't happened yet, so on second thought maybe they had it better after all!

Agreed about the original article!

Mike,

That is awesome!!! Living in the Detroit area, I really appreciate this!!!

Thank you

Shawn

epigramophone wrote:No internet, no mobile phones, no social media. Happy simple stress free days!

Happy days, maybe. Unless you were black and living in Tulsa, OK.

I like how they had to explain what a microphone is. Neat article.

That picture in the news article is from what is now Detroit station WWJ -- the station I've been broadcasting for for decades.

WWJ went on the air in August, 1920 and has been broadcasting continuously ever since -- and no I did not start there in 1920!!!

I'm not sure if the pictures is from that day in August 1920 or a shortly-thereafter recreation.