1. American Entertainment and Sports of the 1930’s

4. Even during "Hard Times" and wartime, people need to be entertained. The American people in the 1930s and 1940s were no exception. They enjoyed many forms of entertainment, particularly if they could do so inexpensively. American Entertainment

5. Novels Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck- First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize- winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.

6. Novels The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck 1931 The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)Pearl S. Buck Published June 1936 1937

7. Movies of the 1930’s The 1930s decade (and most of the 1940s as well) has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood". The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres such as gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few.

8. Movies of the 1930’s The WIZARD OF OZ The Wizard of Oz was produced as a motion picture in 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Many people believe that The Wizard of Oz was (and is) an allegory for the radically new state of affairs that existed in America in the 1930s, following the stock market crash and the bankruptcy of the United States Government which occurred immediately thereafter.

9. Movies of the 1930’s

10. Radio Programs of the 1930’s

11. Dick Tracy -In the 1930s-1940s Dick Tracy was radio series.Dick Tracy

12. Radio Programs of the 1930’s On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked when radio news alerts announced the arrival of Martians. They panicked when they learned of the Martians' ferocious and seemingly unstoppable attack on Earth. Many ran out of their homes screaming while others packed up their cars and fled.Earth Though what the radio listeners heard was a portion of Orson Welles' adaptation of theOrson Welles well-known book, War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, many of the listeners believed what they heard on the radio was real.

13. Big bands and swing music In the 1930s, big bands and swing music were popular, with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller popular bandleaders. Big Band Battle Of Bands Count Basie vs Chick Webb Big Band Music Battle At The Savoy This was a show that was everything it was built up to be for jazz fans and swing dancers of the day. One of many "battle of the bands" at the Savoy Ballroom. Below is Down Beat magazine's assessment of the event and inside details written by Norma Miller in her book "Swingin' At The Savoy; The Memoir Of A Jazz Dancer

14. Sports of the 1930’s Joe DiMaggio- Joe Louis

15. Sports of the 1930’s At the 1935 Big Ten Championships, the "Buckeye Bullet," as he was also known, overcame a severe tailbone injury and tied a world record in the 100- yard dash—and set a long jump record of 26-8 ¼ that would stand for 25 years. Owens also set new world marks in the 220-yard dash and in the 220-yard low hurdles.

16. Sports of the 1930’s 1936 Olympic Games For Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games were expected to be a German showcase and a statement for Aryan supremacy. Most notably, Hitler lambasted America for including black athletes on its Olympic roster.

17. Sports of the 1930’s He captured four gold medals (the 100 meter, the long jump, the 200 meter and the 400-meter relay), and Broke two Olympic records along the way. Owens record for the world broad jump would last 25 years until being broken by Olympian Irvin Roberson in 1960.