Museum Talk

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

A 1951 Crosley radio, donated by Mae Qualls, has a place in the Buffalo Island Museum. It represents a time when the radio played an important part in the Buffalo Island home. Today people take the television for granted, but it wasn't so long ago that the radio was in everyone's living room. After supper was over and all the chores were done, everyone gathered around the radio for the news, music, entertainment, and the latest information of the war. My husband still remembers hearing "Hi-yo Silver" on his favorite radio program. It was in the late 1940s and early 1950s that televisions began appearing in homes on Buffalo Island.

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