MOVIES, RADIO & TELEVISION.

Before every home had a screen, entertainment was intensely geographic: theaters, ballrooms, clubs, radio sets, neighborhood cinemas, and downtown marquees.

Detroit Opera House, Detroit, Mich. — REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Detroit Opera House, early twentieth century.
Source: Detroit Publishing Co. / source record · No known restrictions on publication

DEEP DETROIT CONTEXT

Where Detroit went to be entertained.

Movie palaces and neighborhood theaters.

Radio news, dramas, comedy, sports, music, and advertising as part of the household soundscape.

The spread of television during the postwar years and its effect on leisure.

Entertainment listings as useful time capsules for reconstructing an exact historical week.

SOURCE METHOD

Programs, advertisements, listings, photographs, and period reporting place entertainment in time and location.

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