The Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot | Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (1949) | Radio Mystery

🎙️ YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR - "The Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot" (Episode 017)
📅 Original Air Date: September 4, 1949
🎭 Starring: Charles Russell as Johnny Dollar
📻 Network: CBS Radio

A title thats pure pulp poetry! Ancient Egypt meets American gambling in this intriguing case. The discovery of King Tuts tomb in 1922 had sparked an obsession with all things pharaonic. Museums carried massive insurance on their Egyptian collections, and wherever antiquities traveled, questions of authenticity followed.

🎰 THE NICKEL CONNECTION:
Slot machines, pay phones, parking meters, jukeboxes - a nickel bought you a lot in 1949. Crimes involving small change added up to serious money, and Johnny Dollar followed the trail.

📻 GOLDEN AGE PEAK:
This episode aired as Labor Day approached, marking summers end. Radio advertising hit its peak around 1948, with sponsors paying $4,000 per minute of prime time. The golden age had maybe five good years left.

📝 ABOUT EGYPTIAN FASCINATION:
Americans were captivated by ancient Egypt in the 1940s. Mummies, pyramids, mysterious curses - it was perfect radio material that let sound effects create exotic worlds.

⚠️ COPYRIGHT STATUS:
Pre-1972 radio broadcasts generally fall outside federal copyright protection.

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