What happens
Luigi Vasco, a recent immigrant in Chicago, saves up to buy his own car after promising his mother in Italy he would write about his American adventures. Attending night school, he learns about silent letters and then goes to a dealer on Dearborn Street, where he pays $100 for an old car. Luigi sets about fixing it up and studying the traffic rules for his driver's test, while friends offer their advice and insurance questions loom. The series is Life with Luigi, created by Sigh Howard and starring J. Kellam with Alan Reed, first broadcast on March 20, 1949.
Chicago, Illinois, in the late 1940s, including a night school, an auto dealer on Dearborn Street and the city hall driving test office
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Louis, Mr. Basso, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Howard, Mr. Rosen, Mr. Olsen, Mama Vasco
Listen for: Luigi's letters to his mother, his mistakes at the driving test and the friend who offers to help him
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.