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Meanwhile back at the ranch

Posted by R. Berg on May 02, 2007

In Reply to: Meanwhile back at the ranch posted by Kay Fugate on May 01, 2007

: "Meanwhile back at the ranch" was used as a transition in a radio broadcast in the 1930"s. Was it One Man's Family or something else?

It's associated with Westerns, in which it was a hackneyed way of changing scenes. ~rb

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