This is it. Every radio has been posted, at least every working one. This is where the magic happens, the workshop. Several radios wait for their turn at restoration. In time, they will all be back to their original working condition.
Here's a worthy challenge. I have heard that toasters are among the most difficult household appliances to fix, so I can't imagine how much work would be involved here. But what a fun radio.
I have a soft spot myself for silly gadgets. Years ago in Toronto, I found this wacky Spongebob shower radio in the laundry room of my apartment building where tenants dropped off things they didn't want anymore.
I wonder if it still works.
This must be the modern lower priority section of the room.
I expect this one will get all the attention it needs.
I remember this one well. My brother returned home with it in the early 80s from Texas with a case of cassette tapes.
This one sat on the dining room table in the 70s. I first heard The Shadow when CFBC FM started re-broadcasting old shows one night a week. That was an early introduction to the Theater of the Mind for me.
Old radios require old tools.
With so few stations, particularly AM, broadcasting now, these wonderful early home entertainment centers can still be centrepieces. People are retrofitting them with MP3 and bluetooth ports, playing whatever they like through the original speakers.
All tech has its day but these radios will endure, designed at times when things were intended to last.
All posts on the collection begin here
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