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Monday, December 19, 2022

Part 7 Dad's Magnificent Radio Collection

Still more preserved and restored radios.

Crosley 1940 with a missing center knob. Very similar design to the Emerson in the previous post . Same year.

Admiral, 1946

Philco Transitone 1950

I could not find another radio picture of any brand that featured a airplane tuner dial like this cool jet age General Electric but the design is very 1950s.

Update!!!! There it is in the Eaton's (Toronto) Fall/Winter Catalogue 1956-57, p. 414. General Electric, Model 418 (number 9 footnote). I still couldn't find another image when I googled the model number but the Radio Museum website has the technical details.

A white AM/FM Zenith from 1959.

Stromberg-Carlson 1946

Emerson 1949

Stewart Warner 1948

Deforest

PYE

Westinghouse

Admiral bakelite Model: 7T10 Ch= 5K1 [Octal only] 1947/1948

No idea. I will find out.

Philco Transitone 1942

Hallicrafters Continental 1952

Philips 1952

National SW-54 Communications Receiver (1955)

From Antique Radio Org:

The SW-54 is a five-tube AC/DC type receiver, covering the frequencies .54-30 Mhz in four bands. It offers CW as well as AM mode (although no BFO). Audio is supplied through either the built-in speaker or headphones. The controls are simple and clearly marked, appropriate for this type of radio. The first two photos show the SW-54 in its metal, hammertone-painted cabinet.

The SW-54 cabinet is all metal and consists of three pieces, the main cabinet, a removable back, and removable bottom. The removable bottom allows you to do most service operations without removing the chassis from the main cabinet.

Wang Chung on a personal stereo player from the early 80s.

Groovy portable transistor with a leatherette protection case to wear on your belt. The walkman was a major upgrade.

Rogers 1946

Silvertone Radio. Look at all the wooden push buttons. I haven't found the year for this one although similar models of this brand are listed as made in 1939.

Wooden Arvin

Rogers Majestic

Crosley radio phonograph 1947

Marconi 1952 Model 294

I don´t know the year but this is a particularly special portable transistor radio. It comes in its own leather caseIt might have just stickers someone picked up at a promotion but I like to think Pete worked for CFBC and this was radio station equipment. We had three AM radio stations in Saint John back in the day: CBC, CHSJ and CFBC 930 on your dial. CFBC is the only one still on the air. Sadly, it has become a country station. When I turn on an old radio like this one, I want to hear something like Mungo Jerry.

It even has its own special leather pounch for an earphone.

Portable single earphones pre-date stereo headphones. Headphones didn't arrive until the walkman.

There is the original station on the west side, en route to Irving Nature Park. I remember the more recent downtown location. Nothing is broadcast from here for at least 50 years or more but it is still standing.

AM/FM with a pull-up antennae, rather like a walkie talkie. Very 70s.

This one is still a mystery. I guess I started out with the most clear pictures. Radios with similar looks came out in 1948. This one has the distinctive feature of the radio needle pivoting from the left.

Admiral

Westinghouse

General Electric Tombstone 1931 with a lovely embroidered grill cloth and beveled posts on the edges. GE Junior (M) S-22 tombstone. Yeah this is a duplicate from part 5 but I will leave it here all the same. It's that nice.

Cathedral Atwater Kent

Rogers Majestic TEN-60 1935

There is not much further to go. I just realized I was reposting a lot of pictures and have had to sift through the other posts and double check. That's what you get for not being organized the first time up.

This series will conclude in the next post.

It all began here

Part 1

https://alackofcleardirection.blogspot.com/2022/11/dads-magnificent-radio-collection-work.html

Part 2

https://alackofcleardirection.blogspot.com/2022/11/dads-magnificent-radio-collection-work_14.html

Part 4

https://alackofcleardirection.blogspot.com/2022/12/dads-magnificent-radio-collection-work.html

Part 5

https://alackofcleardirection.blogspot.com/2022/12/dads-magnificent-radio-collection-work_11.html

Part 6

https://alackofcleardirection.blogspot.com/2022/12/dads-magnificent-radio-collection-part.html

Part 8

https://alackofcleardirection.blogspot.com/2022/12/part-8-dads-magnificent-radio.html

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.