Dating from the pre-television era, the image also documents once-typical childhood activities.

Families in the pre-television era would sit around the radio and listen to their favorite shows and music.

Radio soap operas, that is, this being the pre-television era.

A short film spotlights local storytellers who mastered the long narrative yarns that thrived in the pre-television era.

Eleanor Roosevelt was the first to address a convention, but that was in 1940, the pre-television era.

The station aired network programs in the pre-television era, then top 40 and from the 1980s, adult standards music.

And though Mr. Parker's time frames -long and even longer - seem to come from a pre-television era, it was hard not to be taken by his variations on a basic texture.

Pearce worked at numerous radio stations in the pre-television era, he had started at 2CH as an announcer upon arriving in Sydney from England.

In tomorrow's hourlong program, recordings of his reports are accompanied by newsreels of German bombings, which, in that pre-television era, listeners could of course only imagine.

It's a rich slice of Americana that would seem to belong to an earlier, pre-television era, except that television comes to play a large part in Delbert's story.