Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• From Rich Rostrom comes a pointer to an amazing gallery of 50s-70s transistor radios and transistor radio ephemera. Almost every radio I had in that period or remember is here (including a nice one belonging to my grandmother) plus some true oddities, like phony

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[whl]

Of course, .avi can sometimes be a pain in the ass if you aren't running Windows...

transistor radios

[anonymous]

I looked at the collection in your link, and did not find the Channel Master radio that was ever present in my youth, the 6506. My father had a part-time business fixing radios and televisions, and his parts supplier, Warren Radio (pretty big in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, IIRC) carried Channel Master, and also often offered Channel Master products as part of a promotion offer connected to picture tube sales, I think.

Anyway, we had a couple of the 6506 radios, and gave some as Christmas presents to grandparents, and such. The 6506 was small, but too large for a shirt pocket. It is described as a "coat-pocket" radio on this site: Sarah's Radios. The site is not very pretty, but nicely indexed, and seems to have a good many more radios than the one in your link.

Bill Meyer