Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation's households had radios.

Lum and Abner

Lum and Abner

Broadcast History: 26 April 1931 to 7 May 1954
Theme Tune: Eleanor, by Jessie L Deppen. Evalena, by Sybil Chism Bock. Down on the Old Part Line, by Ralph and Elsie Mae Emerson

This comedy, that spanned over 23 years on the air, was centered around Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody, played by Chester Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff, co-owners of the Jot'em Down Store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. It was a "hillbilly" show and Pine Ridge was was based on the real life little town Waters, Arkansas. The Jot'em Down Store was based on a typical general store that was actually owned by a real life Dick Huddleston in Waters, Arkansas and Goff's father actually owned a wholesale grocery business in the larger town of Mena, which supplied products to the Huddleston store.

LA531120 - Thanksgiving in Pine Ridge
 13.45 MB

LA531224 - Everyone Helps Decorate Christmas Tree For Party At School House [000]
 2.1 MB

LA531228 - Lum Explains Details Of Mule Naming Contest [000]
 2.4 MB

LA531229 - Women Want Lum To Be Judge In Beauty Contest [000]
 2.29 MB

LA531230 - Lum Will Get Frank Foster To Be Judge [000]
 2.17 MB

LA540106 - Lum Thinks Town Has Forgotten Him They Haven't -- Exact Date Unknown [xxx]
 2.34 MB

LA540107 - Squire May Become Sales Promotion Mgr Of Store -- Exact Date Unknown [xxx]
 2.26 MB

LA540108 - Lum Thinks Town Has Forgotten Him They Haven't -- Exact Date Unknown
 2.34 MB

LA540109 - Ordering Book On Modern Salesmanship
 2.08 MB

LA540110 - Book Arrives; Methods Run Grandpap off -- Exact Date Unknown
 2.26 MB

LA540111 - LADiscuss Different Types of Customers -- Exact Date Unknown
 2.26 MB

LA540112 - Squire May Become Sales Promotion Mgr of Store -- Exact Date Unknown
 2.27 MB

LA540113 - Burning the Book on Salesmanship
 2.18 MB

LA540114 - Adding Machine Arrives; Abner Skeptical of It -- Exact Date Unknown
 2.1 MB

LA540215 - Lum Will Open Farm and Raise Fishing Worms [441]
 2.21 MB

LA540216 - Everyone Uses Worm Breeding Stock For Bait [441]
 2.2 MB

LA540217 - Lum And Abner and Cedric Go Fishing For Moby Dick [xxx]
 2.18 MB

LA540218 - Squire and Grandpap Play Chess [441]
 2.21 MB

LA540219 - Lum Will Take Correspondence Course To Become Cpa [xxx]
 2.22 MB

LA540222 - Everyone Gets Scholarship To Correspondence School [xxx]
 2.23 MB

LA540223 - Lum Buys Old Truck At Auction [441]
 1.97 MB

LA540224 - Everyone Frightened Of Voice Coming From Trunk [xxx]
 2.08 MB

LA540225 - Lum And Abner Open Trunk Can't Believe Their Eyes [xxx]
 2.31 MB

LA540226 - Lum And Abner Wonder What To Do With Trunk Full Of Jewels [xxx]
 2.12 MB

LA540301 - Lum Getting Threatening Phone Calls and Hiding At Store [xxx]
 2.03 MB

LA540302 - Abner Practices Signals To Protect Lum From Red X Gang [xxx]
 2.07 MB

LA540303 - Is Squire A Member Of Red X Gang [442]
 2.12 MB

LA540304 - Lum Figures Out Truth About Gang and Squire [442]
 2.15 MB

LA540305 - Items In Trunk Have Curse On Them [442]
 1.98 MB

LA540315 - Lum Gives Brooch Back To Mrs Moots; Trunk's Owner Wants It Back [xxx]
 2.16 MB

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