BoomerByte - The Soundtrack Of A Generation, a podcast begun October 7, 2008, recently crossed its 300th download milestone. Providing nostalgic, interesting, strange and hilarious soundbytes from the 1940s, 50s and 60s listeners have been downloading podcasts from the flagship sight, www.boomerbyte.mypodcast.com, as well as Itunes, Podcast Alley, The Educational Podcast Site and other well known podcast feed sites. It is hoped that the 400th download can be attained by December 7 which would equate to an average of 200 per month over the last two months.
In the 14 episodes created since its inception, BoomerByte has covered a wide range of topics that illustrate life in the Baby Boomer era - McCarthyism, nuclear hysteria, teenage etiquette, presidential campaigns of Eisenhower, Stevenson, Nixon and Kennedy, drive-in movies, juvenile delinquency, television ads, government public service announcements, amusement parks, sex education, to name just a few.
Each episode creates a themed package containing soundtracks from public domain films. Topics range from serious and scholarly (McCarthyism, attitudes towards women, Cold War nuclear testing, Presidential campaigns, etc) to plain comedy (many of the educational films aimed at teenagers are hilariously outdated and naive).
The attempt of this podcast is to create an archive of sounds of an era that, taken as a whole, represents a volume of history that illustrates innocent, prosperous and naive times against the menacing backdrop of the Cold War.
Creator, Joe Hill, is a high school history and social studies teacher and has a special interest in the era in which he grew up - 1950 through 1965.
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