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With the holiday season approaching,
we’d like to take a moment
to wish you and your loved ones
joy and peace, as well as thank you
for your loyalty over the past year.
We recently celebrated our
34th Anniversary together
with our customers.
We appreciate the opportunity to
continue to serve you.
Wishing you and
your family a bright holiday season!
—The Staff of
The Antique Shoppe
“SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE”
Design Trends of the Mid-20th Century
By Donald-Brian Johnson
This Month’s Feature—
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear:
Celebrating Radio’s 100 TH
“Do you remember radio?”
One of the earliest radio compilation recordings
began with an announcer booming out that phrase. He
was talking about “The Golden Age of Radio”, the first
communications medium to bring entertainment and
information — drama, comedy, music, and news – right
into your living room. It’s a concept so far removed from
radio as we know it today, that it might well have existed
in a different universe.
Radio’s “Golden Age” lasted from the early 1930s
until the early 1950s, reaching its peak in the 1940s. (It
might have ended sooner, but World War II stalled the
development of television for a decade.) The first station,
Pittsburgh’s KDKA, set up shop in November, 1920, in
the garage of Westinghouse engineer Dr. Frank Conrad.
Westinghouse bankrolled the project, no doubt seeing
future dollar signs in (and on) the air. KDKA can also
take credit for the first commercial. When Dr. Conrad
mentioned that the records he played were purchased at a
local outlet, the store was swamped. On The Air”, September, 1930. $10-15.
WEST PALM BEACH ANTIQUES FESTIVAL RETURNS
West Palm Beach— After a long unscheduled hiatus (due to COVID-19) Bill
and Kay Puchstein, owners of the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival have an-
nounced the return of their popular shows to the South Florida Fairgrounds.
Mark your calendars for November 6-8, 2020. The opening will begin at 9 a.m.
on Friday, November 6, with an early buyer “1st Pick” until noon. Admission is
$25. (includes admission for all 3 days.) General admission begins at 12 p.m.
until 5 p.m. Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. 2-Day admission is $12, Single day admission is $8 ($7 for senior citizens)
Future dates for West Palm Beach Antiques Festival include December De-
cember 4-6, January 1-3, and their Antiques Spectacular February 5-7, 2021.
The show returns to the Fairgrounds the first weekend every month.
The South Florida Fair is enforcing a Mandatory Mask Policy. No mask, no
entry. A $1 OFF admission coupon is available on the Festival’s website:
www.wpbaf.com.
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And we’re on the air! The illustration is from a 1947 comic book
distributed by NBC, heralding the wonders of radio. $15-20.
By 1923, 200-plus radio operating licenses had been
issued, to such soon-to-be giants in the field as RCA,
AT&T, and GE. With 1927’s first nationwide radio
hookup, America was officially “on the air”.
Vaudeville performers were among the initial
beneficiaries. A single broadcast attracted thousands more
listeners than could be reached in a year’s worth of road
engagements. Among those hopping on radio’s bandwagon
: Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns and Gracie Allen,
crooner Rudy Vallee, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (with,
naturally, Charlie McCarthy); and the “Songbird of the
South”, Kate Smith. Even Fanny Brice, a Ziegfeld Follies
legend, found greater fame on radio as incorrigible “Baby
Snooks”.
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One of the earliest radio guides: “What’s