American Leisure Industry 1917-80

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America Leisure Industry 1917-80
- Shopping
  - As a leisure activity
- Sport
  - Number of spectators for all sports grew
    - Rese Bowl Stadium built in 1922 for 57,000 people
      - Enlarged in 1928 to hold 76,000
    - Major league baseball attendance grew
      - 1970 330m
        1980 460m
  - Sold rights to broadcast games
    - 1934 baseball league sold rights to Ford Motor Company for $10,000
    - Late 1940s baseball and television rights selling $11,000 a game
- Technology and entertainment
  - Computer tech
    - 1980s tech for home computers and internet developed
      - Bill Gate Altair cost $297
        Had to learn BASIC programming to use
        
        Only middle class and better off could afford it
  - Car
    - Rise of car related industry
      - 1985 56,000 motes that made $850m a year
      - 1929 121,500 filling stations made $1,800m a year in petrol sales
        1967 there were 261,000 filling stations making $22,709m a year in petrol sales
      - 1907 USA produced 45,000 cars
        1935 USA produced 3,971,000 cars
- Outdoor activities
  - 'back to nature experience
  - Park Rangers, camping, hiking
  - Amusement parks
    - 1st kiddie park built in San Antonio Texas
- Cinema
  - Lots of new cinemas being built
    - 1930s NY had hundreds of cinemas
      - In South Carolina only 3 towns and cities had more than 1 movie theatre
  - Screen actors guild earnings
    - 4% earned over $50,000
    - 12% earned between $10,000-50,0000
    - 71% earned less than $5,000
Radio and book market grew late 1920s
- 1929 book sales $117m
  - 1939 $74m -- Depression

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