Home entertainment centers did not exist during the 30's and 40's.  However, most of us had radios for news, weather, music, "soap operas," drama, comedy baseball games, and homemaker shows.  Singers, bands, comedians, election reports, and play-by-play descriptions of sports events, all forms of "big city" entertainment, were carried through radio waves to farms and small towns.  This wonderful invention brought outstanding events within the reach of everyone who had access to it.

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