A Typical 1970s Radio
In my Burg day this radio might be tuned to a Yankees or Phillies
or Mets game when the folks were sitting around talking in their
lawn chairs in front of their porch or on their porch.
I remember the small plastic AM radios you could buy at Atlantic
Mills that had that 1 white earplug included.
I remember some radios had many bands besides AM and FM, they
also had Shortwave 1 & 2, Police Band, etc.
Often radio battery connecters were made poorly and folks would
throw out their radio and I would get it before the garbage
truck came and often I could fix it.
Boomboxs and Sony Walkmans and Ipods came later:)
2 comments:
Not sure but the radio in the pic looks like an old GE. I had one just like it, I think, in the mid-60s while I was in the Navy. We were able to listen to WIBG, in Philly, all the way from the Straits of Gibraltar - just sitting on the flight deck by the bow.
The radio was extremely powerful. It may have had 8 transistors.
Earlier versions of transistor radios were small and they burned up 9 volt batteries really quick, but we got our dose of WAAT while the sun was still up.
Had one just like the picture shows, use to listen to the police calls at night.
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