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Remembering radio in the 1940s
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When I was a little over 5 years of age, I remember lying on the floor in front of our big old Zenith radio listening to whatever just happened to be on that evening. The adults liked the news and stuff like: "Allen’s Alley," "George Burns and Gracie Allen," while Shirley Jo and I loved "Little Orphan Annie," "The Lone Ranger," "Superman" and the comedy programs. I’ll never forget that one evening when President F.D. Roosevelt announced the bombing of Pearl Harbor, “A day that will live in infamy!”
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