its purffect.

Remember listening to the Liston-Clay fight with my dad. Didn't have a television or telephone in the house. This was all the entertainment we had in my earliest memories.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

greats. Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Les Brown, Glenn Miller and others. There was a local radio station that played nothing but big band music from the time they signed on in the morning until they signed off at night.

Another station had a drama series called "One Man's Family" that we listened to every evening at suppertime. Ball games, westerns, soap operas even kids programming on Saturday mornings, we listened to it all on Daddy's old Silvertone radio.

them. Jazz, but not too progressive. Mom discovered Rod Stewart when he did the American Songbook and just though5 his renditions were terrific.

Still exists. I went to their show a few years ago. Listening to all the older folks know every word of the songs.

I once saw Glenn Miller and his band. They played here in a Lake side ball room. My Aunts and Uncles sneaked me in. I was little but still remember. He died in the plane crap that year.

use it as a lamp stand.

It has a powerful speaker and it works. I've had it since 1972. It's
a 1946 Philco. I keep it as an antique.

What a wonderful Piece. Got the 6 volt battery one. Found it in a old House on a abandoned Farm back in the late 60's. Had a local Fixit Guy go through it and get it running. Needed a couple new tubes which he still had in stock. Our Niece keeps in her house . Best part,surprisingly easy to find modern 6 volt batteries for this Radio.

that belonged to my grandfather. I still used it to listen to sports broadcasts into the late 80's.

a 1949 philco tv with record player and radio in mahogony cabinet,,,record player still works

I remember running home from school to listen to "The Shadow".

while listening to Arthur Godfrey and her "soaps" ( "Search For Tomorrow", etc). She had three "records". All were 78's with yellow MGM labels around the center. "You'll Rue The Day" is the only title I recall.

One of the old Gramophone wind up Victrola’s.. will play 78’s. He also restored a peddle sewing machine I was talked into buying for $15 at a Flea Market.

He restored one of those 3 mirrored dressing tables for me as a Christmas present after hearing I wanted one. I found beaded lamps to put on it.

play the old records on it when we were young enough that we weren't allowed to use Daddy's hi-fi. My mom liked the cabinet and eventually had the guts taken out and shelves put it and used it for a storage cabinet/ lamp table.

In the closet somewhere. I also have the complete Woodstock Album. Do not ask me where it came from. I have no idea.

My memory of it is a little dim, since I was only seven when they sold out.

But by the time I came along, it no longer worked and they couldn't afford to get it fixed. It was out in the garage.

not sure if it still works - will probably pass it to my daughter.

I think ours was a 1930 something Montgomery Wards

furniture and moved the big radio in my room. I remember turning the dial all over the place and listening to everything I could get on that radio in my very isolated community.

Must have been about 1956 or so. I was maybe 7 yrs. old.

The radio did not make the move the next year when my mother and I moved into
the next house.

Tikki

And cassette combination in my spare bedroom/ office, what ever.

I also still have a blonde book case in there!

She listened to talk radio all day. And her soaps.

By the 70's when I was getting skills in fixing radios from my Dad, guys would bring in those bakelite-housing radios we called "barn radios," since local farmers would use them in the barn, during milking or whatnot.

My Dad got a few of those big radios like the OP picture, and he'd have me dismantle them for usable parts.

Heck, it's been 40+ years since then, but I still remember the two most common replaced tubes in radios.

50C5
35W4

Currently, I have a 3-speed record player, that can record to a USB port.
I can also plug into it a cassette player.

when music was playing.

got one something like that at a garage sale. When he got it home he said something about how much history had passed through that speaker. He turned it on and the news that Pope Paul VI had passed was announced. That seemed a little freaky, but no one thought much about it.
Fast forward to the next month, my friend is regaling me and a few others with the story of how there must have been a lot of history passed through that speaker and last time he turned it on there had been even more. Naturally he turned it on again only to have the news of Pope John Paul I passing announced. I'm not actually sure if he ever turned it on again.

it was in his garage off the breezeway in his house. On hot Sundays after dinner we'd all listen to the ball game on the radio. The sound was crisp and I always remembered the sound of the crack of the ball hitting the bat.

Is it a lamp? I seem to recall that they had a small bulb in them, like a nightlight.

Underneath the radio was a record player that pulled out. We stored the records in the compartment on the left.



Mom would play her 78 rpm symphony records. Each symphony was on 3 or more records that would play only a few minutes, then the record changer would drop the next one. After all the records played, we would turn the stack of records over and put them on the changer and play the rest of the symphony.

For you youngsters 55 and under, this youtube video will show you how these clever record changers worked.

My mother would bring them home for me to fix. Remove all the bulbs, days before transistors, take them down to hardware store where a display machine had a testing board and drawers of replacements. Plug them in one at a time, hit a switch, and see if they worked. Most often the tuning mechanism, which was a string around a pulley on the knobs, was broke and easy to replace. I spent many hours listening to radio from all over the world as most of these old radios had short wave bands. I had to run a wire antenna out the window for best reception but that is a different story

We listened to it as kids.

Like everyone has a television these days, back then that was your outlet to the world.

It was the fanciest piece of furniture in our living room.

My Mother was a starched white Ruffled tie back curtain fan. How I hated those stretcher pins that pricked my fingers. Then she ironed the ruffles!

Had to wait for it to "warm up", and there was always some static and occasional whistles while tuning to a station. The folks had several 78rpm albums, like Gilbert and Sullivan and Christmas music; real book albums, with one record per sleeve with one song on each side. Oh yeah, there was also a distinctive electronic scent; I'd forgotten about that until a friend demonstrated her newly acquired yard sale radio.


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Those were only found in the homes of doctors and store owners of our little farm town.

We had a small table-top radio with bakelite case, I think an RCA. Listening to the Grand Ole Opry and other country music shows out of Nashville was a weekly ritual.

My grandma had a WW2-era radio out on her farm that originally ran off a huge battery pack (before REA came through) and thereafter had a converter box to power it. That was well up into the 60s.

I started tinkering with electronics as a small kid in the late 50s and built crystal radios at around 8 or 10. Got into ham radio and bought my first receiver (Hallicrafters SX-43) and Heathkit transmitter from mowing yards before we even had a TV. Worked in a radio/TV shop on Saturdays and fixed many dozens of those old radios while the shop owner fixed the TVs.

Good 'ole days in many ways and some others not so much........

that and we had a juke box at our house really... I don't know where it came from and why we had it but I remember... also my mother played guitar in a country band in local dives


something like this....

broadcast bands. I remember listening to Gunsmoke back when William Conrad played Matt Dillon. At the Grange Hall
there was an old crank phonograph we liked to play with. My grandmother had a player piano and a phonograph that played
tube shaped records.

I don’t remember that type of radio. But Lost in Space was one of my favorite tv shows as a kid. Billy Mummy, June Lockhart, Angela Cartwright and the rest. That radio has the same shape and build as the beloved robot.