On the 1930 census, column
9 asked if the household had a radio set. I checked my Falk family as
I already had a notebook showing all the children and grandchildren
of Ludwig Falk that I could find in the 1930 census.
I
was surprised at how few of the group had radios.
Here
are some statistics:
Of
the descendants of Ludwig and Anna Louisa (Boehm) Falk that I found,
there were 7 children and 59 grandchildren in 44 households. There
were only 13 of these households who had radios, or less than 30%.
Radios
are something we take for granted now, less than 90 years later. Most
households today have more than one radio and a radio is listed as a
suggested item for an emergency kit. When I thought about this
further I remembered that in most of Western Oregon, rural locations
did not get electric power until the mid-1930s. It would be probable
that other rural areas would also be affected with the lack of
electricity. Since many of the Falk family members lived in rural
locations, this might help explain why radios did not show
up on the 1930 census. I wonder how many had radios by the 1940
census. There is no way for me to answer that question.
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