Lemurian Congress

A poem for the uneasy modern, from the November 1, 1930 issue of The New Yorker. This is the time of wonder, it is written; Man has undone t...

The New Yorker panned this book, but it sounded so interesting that I couldn't resist finding a copy: "God's Country: A Short H...

1929 was certainly the year of The Great New Yorker Cigarette War. In terms of advertisements, Chesterfields appear to have knocked off Old ...

While expressing his annoyance about the constant radio coverage of the Graf Zeppelin's inaugural flight, an anonymous New Yorker repor...

I hear a lot of great comedy duos while listening to old time radio, but one of my favourites is Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa . There'...

On a cold, rainy day, a little backwards-looking vaudeville-style humour from the '50s is just what you need: LEFTY: (Entering a prison ...

Margaret: That scar on your face is very romantic. Bob: That's my mouth. (Paraphrased from The Bob Hope Show, March 4, 1953)

My good fortune can't hold out forever; someday people will move into the unit adjacent to mine, and all my neighbour-troubles will begi...

It's certainly true that we live in a time of fast-moving technology, but those folks in 1928 were no slouches either. They were so busy...

The August 11, 1928 issue of The New Yorker had an interesting article about Tin Pan Alley songwriters. Apparently, songwriters bore the res...

Jon Whitney just told me that people in Massachusetts are driving around with a " Don't blame me, I voted for Muffy " bumper ...

For anybody who was enjoying "Repeater," the CKMS old time radio program, I'm sorry to say that no new episodes are being reco...

I listen to a lot of old time radio so I'm bound to hear a lot of weird mid-century novelty songs. Occasionally I get a yen to share a p...

In a last-ditch effort to keep variety radio viable in the face of television, NBC produced " The Big Show ," an unprecendented we...

From February 5, 1948's episode of "It Pays to Be Ignorant" Lulu McConnell: Before I left home this morning, I rocked my husba...

I'm not much of an Abbott & Costello fan but they probably didn't write this joke anyway: Costello: I've been experimenting ...

A day of coincidence with the radio, and a word that won't go away... More about Kate Bush soon, but for now: I've been having bizar...

I'm going to start an informal tradition of posting notable or odd songs that I come across while listening to old radio programs. I alr...

Harry McNaughton: You know, somebody called me on the phone the other night, I couldn't understand a word they said. George Shelton: Why...

I'm making my way through the handful of surviving "Buck Rogers" radio programs from the 1930s, and though I found them annoyi...