Tag: radio

Lamp Chimney cleaning with bonus annoying sister added for extra misery.
Posted in Flotsam

Lamp chimney cleaning beats protesting.

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…

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Airline brand portable radio hasn't played since the Eisenhower administration.
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I bring you… Music! Or… a house fire!

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…

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Zenith Trans-Oceanic with manual
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What would TSA think of this portable Zenith?

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….

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Zenith Trans-Oceanic with manual
Posted in Back in My Day Flotsam

Happy to be playing again

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…

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