Media Through the Years

A similar TV to the first one in Linda's house. Source:  http://www.tvhistory.tv/ 1950-59-PHILCO From advertising media, we then moved on to TV and cable media. I assumed that Linda and her family would not have a TV in the house until Linda was older because they lived outside of Macon on a farm. However, this was not the case. Linda's family first got a television in 1952 when Linda was four years old. It was a 21 inch TV in black and white that the family would watch altogether. Linda recalled that the TV would not be turned on until after dinner and homework was done. A tradition that she carried over with her own daughter. The family would watch the national news each night and "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Sundays. Some of her favorite shows were "I Love Lucy", "Gun Smoke", and "The Beverly Hillbillies". "'Beverly Hillbillies' was one of my favorites because I got tickled by my Grandma becuause she thought [t

When my grandmother and I started our interviews back up we began by discussing advertising media that she remembered from her childhood. Growing up in Macon, there were a few staple advertisements that she immediately recalled. Her first thought was Lolli's Sale Barn that had large paintings on the side of the buildings to advertise the auction lot. Lolli's is hard to miss, being right off of 63, and the barn painting was something that not only Linda could recall, but myself and my sister as well. We remembered Lolli's not from driving through recently to go to Kirksville, but from when we were young and drove by on the way to Grandma and Grandpa's house in Macon. The large advertisement has engraved itself and Lolli's into the minds of multiple generations of my family, making the barn painting an effective form of advertisement. Lolli's Sale Barn from the 1950's Source:  http://www.lollibros.com/about-us/history The next advertisement

When we turned to audio media, my Grandmother described how the radio was central in her home growing up. Her mom would listen to the news first thing in the morning, while her dad always had the fights tuned in at night after work. Whether it  was the small radios in her siblings' rooms or the larg e one i n the kitchen, there was always a radio tuned into WHB. "I played it all day long, of course we had to work, but as much as I could. On the weekends especially. Then when I turned 16, I would listen to the radio in the car all night long. The Rolling Stones would play, Santana, The Who."  She remembered WHB playing every type of music fro m cou nty to pop music. The station would be cut off by Kansas City at nine at night, then she recalled having to make their own music. She would The only country Linda listened to was Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Source:  https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country /7873024/kenny-rogers-dolly-parton-final-performanc

The first interview I conducted with my grandmother, Linda, was about her experience with print media. Growing up in Macon on a farm outside of town, her family, especially her parents, relied heavily on newspapers and magazines for their news. She remembers always having the Macon Chronicle-Harold in the house. The paper came six days a week with the mail and made it to the house at noon, despite it being the morning paper. Sunday was the only day in which the paper was not delivered. I found this interesting because  it was the  exact opposite of when I grew up and my family would only get the paper from the store on Sundays. The cover of the Macon Chronicle-Herald the year Linda was born Source:  https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/MaconCH/id/46103/rec/5 The Harold was shared amongst her two parents, three siblings, and herself. She reminisced fondly of the Peanuts and Dagwood, her mom checking the Cardinals' scores, and her dad reading the paper cover to cover