Continuing our examination of the end of World War II, we turn to "Home Is What You Make It", a sustained NBC public service series focused on issues related to the War and the home front. Only a couple of examples of the show are listed at Goldin.
In this post, we'll hear the first half of the episode of April 20, 1946, "Promised and On the Way", the 74th program in the series. Ben Grauer hosts a dramatized tour through the amazing new conveniences on the way for American home makers in the post-War period.
Mixing bowls in Technicolor! Washing machines that make your wearables clothesline fresh! Streamlined kitchen cabinets and ovens with timers that cook for you! It's all coming, courtesy of the millions of dollars of industrial research and development! Of course, the post-War period would also bring us the Cold War, McCarthyism, sprawling suburbs and rock n' roll, but that's a different story...
The show was transferred from an original line check lacquer from John Keating Studios, Portland, Oregon, probably at KGW, and includes the NBC opening system cue. The program was previously lost and the second half, unfortunately, doesn't survive.