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Viscount 8 Transistor 3 Band 833 Radio Consolidated S.M. | Radiomuseum
This is The Famous Radio that I had on the farm when I was kid.....amazing...


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Tropical High Sensitivity 3 Band Hi-Fi Radio Unknown - CUSTOM | Radiomuseum

I bought one of these ten years ago and it was FABULOUS but I broke the turn-on switch!!!   sh*t!    
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Damn shame about the hard copy encyclopedias. I have a full set of them too. Used to buy a year book every year that had cut and paste updates to keep it current. On-line, CD versions, and Wikipedia have killed them. Not sure if libraries even bother with a reference set anymore.
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CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation) | DAVES COLD WAR CANADA

Here's a photo of the CONELRAD stations that we were to tune to in case of Nuclear Attack....mandatory on all radios until 1963....

CONELRAD - Wikipedia
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Originally posted by Dogger Dogger wrote:

Damn shame about the hard copy encyclopedias. I have a full set of them too. Used to buy a year book every year that had cut and paste updates to keep it current. On-line, CD versions, and Wikipedia have killed them. Not sure if libraries even bother with a reference set anymore.

Nope....regular BOOKS are gone. I was trying to sell Encyclopedia Britannica in Phoenix in 1986....but the only person who wanted them was.....ME!    Well, I finally got some AND the GREAT BOOKS but Meghan got them from me now.....
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Years ago in Kansas I went to a LIBRARY SALE in Pratt (a GIVEAWAY!)....I bought a set of Encyclopedia Britannica (1966) for FIVE BUCKS! (two volumes missing)....but the divorce took care of that....

YEARS LATER I used to visit a gun store in Pennsylvania EVERY DAY and look around...Needless to say They KNEW ME...I used to buy all kinds of stuff....guns, ammo, books, etc....

Well one day John had an entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica sitting on the floor (1964) and he said I could have it FOR FREE!

He even helped me load it into my truck....but I lost that when I left my wife and PA in 2012...Hasta la Vista....Baby.....
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* so I finally bought a 1992 set of Encyclopedia Britannica with fake leather covers from somebody on eBay......  Big Grin  *  
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Old radios!
My 1970 Challenger had an AM radio. My 85 Z28 had an AM/FM, cassette, and my 2019 Mustang has an AM/FM, CD, and Serious, with those little stick things that store all kinds of music.
You can no longer get cassettes. It's getting harder to find CDs, and they're trying to get rid of AM.
Last year's radio is old now.
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My 62  Chevy Impala had an AM radio....I had the buttons set for Scranton (PA), New York City, and AFTER DARK I could pick up Chicago (WLS) and Boston and West Virginia.... 

my 66 Olds Cutlass had an AM....I used to listen to AM San Antonio (KTSA)....

My 72 Olds Cutlass had AM/FM....

My 1985 Ford pick up had a steering wheel and that was about all....






 
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I remember listening to WLS after dark. Only time you could pick it up.

There was a FM station just outside of Fort Knox back in the 70's that was really great. Got my intro to Fire Sign Theater from them. They had a weak signal though, and you could only get the station on the southwest side of the county.
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When we were youngsters we used to use a portable radio just like this to listen to the Giants baseball and college football games while working in the yard. At night while in bed we'd listen to the Gene Nelson old time radio shows. There was a variety of shows he'd play, some were from Gun Smoke, Lone ranger, Lights Out, Inner Sanctum, The Shadow, Abbot and Costello, etc.  Good times, most kids have no idea what they're missing.
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I remember shows that were scary....was there a show called SUSPISION?   or something scary?....

The Olde Days.....  
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Like TALES OF THE CRYPT.....





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Grundig Classic 960 Anniversary Radio

I just bought one of these on eBay....a Grundig Anniversary Model of an old radio from the Fifties...except it's got NEW STUFF inside...anyway it will be here in a week or so. It has the old sound of tube radios.


Grundig Classic 960 &quot;50th Anniversary Edition&quot; (1996-2000) - SOLD! - item number 0021454


AM/FM and Short Wave 1 and 2.....
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Dad's 61 Buick had an AM tube radio. When you turned it on, it took several seconds before you could hear it. Many people commented about how good it sounded.
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The same thing when you turned on the old TVs...

Tv Screen Turns And Off Images – Browse 4,051 Stock Photos, Vectors, and Video | Adobe Stock
When you turned OFF the old TVs there was a "spark" that appeared in the middle of the screen until it died...
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TV turning off effect. on Make a GIF
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