The print is very small on the Williston Park Village, Nassau County, N.Y. 1930 census. It seems as if the heading is Radio Set, and a capital R indicated for those homeowners who had a radio set. I wonder what the significance was for this category in 1930 . Only two neighbours out of 14 houses indicated that they did not have a radio set. They appear to be American-born, so presumably there would be no problem with the English language. Three residents, also with a radio set, were born in Scotland, one in Germany and one in Austria (my husband’s father; though he indicated he was born in Illinois, was actually born in Austria, so you can’t believe what you read on a census!). I just thought this was the oddest thing that owning a radio set would be important enough to be a heading on a census. Was there a reason, such as in Britain where one pays a t.v. tax? Were radios taxed then? My husband said that many radios were built into substantial looking pieces of furniture “back then”. The 1940 census for the same street/district made no mention of a radio set; however, the demographics had changed a little with two from Norway, three from Germany and one from Scotland. The woman from Germany would listen to Hitler on the radio whilst her Norwegian neighbour would go off her rocker and they would have a verbal set-to, according to my husband who was just a young boy at the time. The German woman’s husband had fought with the German army in WWI, but had no use for Hitler, whilst his son joined the U.S.Navy, much to his mother’s great annoyance. Now this was right before the U.S. entered WWII, and so I don’t know if the German woman toned down the rhetoric, as they say. You can learn a lot from a census, particularly if they are “topical” and there are those still around who remember neighbours and can fill in some background and history. Maisie