Audiobooks are like the radio days of yesteryear

Long before the days of Mario, Luigi and Donkey Kong, youngsters harkened to the likes of Fibber McGee and Molly, Dick Tracy and the Lone Ranger. Such were the stuff of the “Golden Age of Radio,” the era spanning from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Radios figured largely in the homes of families, a central feature in their living rooms and daily lives. Radios brought the world to households throughout the nation. Parents and children gathered around the radio to hear news, entertaining music and riveting and riotous story programs.

While radios thus informed and entertained, they also proved a source of both inspiration and comfort during the bleakest of times in our nation, spanning the Great Depression and World War II.