This 1951 newspaper comic panel appealed to the households who were still waiting for electricity, I guess. Although I wonder if they had the extra cash to subscribe then. They could get their news via one of those radios that…
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I would like to see if this old Airline brand portable tube radio from Monkey Wards still works, it uses a D battery but there is a lot of corrosion there, I can fix that. (The D cell is to…
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This portable (luggable?) Zenith radio featured a proprietary antenna that flipped out from the radio to pull in stronger or more distant am radio signals. When stowed, it looked like a small, elegant suitcase. I have a https://neverjethot.com/blog/2019/02/25/happy-to-be-playing-again/ Zenith Transoceanic,…
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I got caught up in bidding frenzy and wound up buying this old Zenith Trans-Oceanic at the Saturday auction for forty bucks. I figured to put a kit in that bypasses the old capacitors and the power tube, but no…
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