Word: victrolas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the conclusion of the fall clothing drive, approximately a dozen hampers of miscellaneous old clothes, magazines, and victrola records were received by the Brooks House...
...special car journeyed President & Mrs. Hoover, the Attorney-General Mitchells, the Secretary of Agriculture Hydes. and few more. At Philadelphia they detrained informally and proceeded to Shibe Park to see the fifth game of the world series (see p. 66). As the party entered their bunting-draped box, a victrola attached to an amplifier blared "Hail to the Chief," while the crowd cheered. When in a pandemoniac last inning rally, the Athletics won the game and series,' the President smiled, clapped politely...
...year on the morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...
Among the other things which were discovered when the total came to be reckoned up were 29 victrola records, five pianola rolls, one telephone directory, one radio lond speaker, and one ton of magazines, mostly Saturday Evening Posts and Lampoons...
...copies are sold. This change in conditions is caused by several reasons. Perhaps the greatest factor in the change is the Radio. Since its invention and its broadcasting of music, songs become known by the public much sooner than they used to be when the victrola was the most rapid means of conveying it from ear to ear. Today a piece of music is literally worn out by Radio. No good piece that the public likes can possibly last more than a few months at the rate it is now being heard by the public, daily...