Thursday, December 15, 2022

part 6 Dad's Magnificent Radio Collection with several radio phonograph players

The tour continues and the end is nowhere in sight. There are just so many.

This is the Admiral table radio phonograph from 1954. Model 5D32. I didn't bother lifting the lid as the DVD player was resting on top but it played 78s, 45s and 331/3 long playing records. You could stack your records on a spindle and they would drop one by one for continuous play. Now, that is a modern machine.

Before the boom boxes of the 80s, this cute little number would have been the ultimate in portability. You could take it anywhere along with a square carboard box full of 45s to keep the fun coming.

Here's another early model radio phonograph but my picture isn't clear enough to read either Dad's reference number or the label.

This one is the Philco radio phonograph from 1940.

It stacks.

Admiral radio phonograph from 1947

Herofon 330U from Denmark. I can't find a match for it on the internet but I'm guessing early 50s.

RCA Victor wooden table radio. Model: A25

RCA Victor 1940 Globe Trotter A20

Westinghouse Canada 1949 Continental 604

General Electric. While I couldn't find a perfect match on the internet, this is quite similar to a Philips model from 1940, including the pattern of the four knobs, so this was likely made the same year.

Philips Canada Model: 725

Stewart-Warner 1936

Westinghouse 1947

It's another radio phonograph by Crosley in 1947.

Wooden Motorola 1939 Model: 61C

Electrohome 1950s. There is another model out there from 1959 that is almost identical except for 4 push buttons on top.

Philco 1940 Model 40-145

Philco 1964

Rogers. Wooden lunchbox style. Year unknown. Was it designed for left handed people? I don't recall any others with the speaker on the right.

Northern Electric "Baby Champ" model 5000 aka "Rainbow" Painted Bakelite Art Deco radio. Made in Canada, 1940s The rainbow refers to the curving speaker shape but it was available in a variety of colors: brown, white, metallic grey, blue, and others. you get the idea.

General Electric 1950

RCA Victor 1965

Another Electrohome clock radio from the late 50s with different time set knobs from the previous home. It is so pink, it is easy to picture Zsa Zsa Gabor lazily stretching awake to this little wonder at 11 AM or the middle of the afternoon.