Coca-Cola is looking to the past in hopes of increasing drink sales in the U.S. Back in the late 1930s, a soft drink made its ...

Over the years, Roto-Rooter featured its memorable Away Go Troubles Down the Drain jingle in various styles and genres, ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/worlds-timeline-worlds/ By the 1930s the radio was becoming a staple in many American homes. For the first time ...

By the 1930s, AM radio was a dominant form of mass media in America, served by networks of stations – NBC, CBS and Mutual – ...

and commercial radio became popular. Woman called 911 on herself after breaking into neighbor’s home: Troopers Although ...

A preeminent artist-activist of the mid-twentieth century, his banishment by the studios lasted longer than any other performer of the blacklist era — twenty-five years, ending only with his death.

In an era when everything from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” can have multiple sequels, Great Plans Radio Theatre founder Ralph Swain doesn’t mind ...

As part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, some 200,000 African Americans moved ...

It also saw toy marketing evolve from newspaper ads, to radio, to television commercials ... Checkers craze in the 1930s. Jim Pressman, 73, who appeared as a three-year-old model in a 1952 ...

From control of Congress to changes to state constitutions, voters across the U.S. will pick more than just a new president.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/worlds-timeline-worlds/ By the 1930s the radio was becoming a staple in many American homes. For the first time ...

Advertising jingles had their heyday when radio was the dominant entertainment medium between the 1930s and 1950s. Short, catchy tunes paired with memorable lyrics helped familiarize Americans with ...