I got my job at WCIR through my dad. He had met the program director, who let slip that he was in desperate need of a gopher/office slave...

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Radio Days pattern was taken from the archives dating back to the 80's. In the Legacy Edition, Radio Days is updated with new colors and fibers, where the…

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Tired of modern plastic everything? This wireless Bluetooth speaker is housed inside a distress-finished metal and resin old time radio.

Is a button really mashed if nobody is there to hear it?

As more and more radio receivers sprung up in the community the commercial potential of the radio became obvious. Over the next few decades, and until the invention of television, families would sit huddled by their radios listening to music, comedy, quiz and variety shows, radio serials and plays.

Amateur Radio licenses are UP!More people are recognizing that cell & land based phones will NOT be working during a disaster.When All Else Fails, Amateur Ra...

Veronica op het strand in Scheveningen 4-4-1973

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In the old days, a shortwave radio was a major desk fixture. These days, you can get truly diminutive radios. However, most of them only have AM capability (that is, no simple way to receive single…

A museum of cigarette packaging for people interested in packaging design. Based on the collection of Igor Sergeev.

Radios, Panasonic R-70 Panapet yellow 1970-1973

This radio was also branded as a Hoffman BP-708 or OP-708 in the U.S. The upper dial area of this small, horizontal set is reverse painted. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sharp (Hayakawa Electric Industry Co., Ltd) was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1915. The company started by making pencils...the "Ever-Sharp" pencil to be exact. (I would assume that's where the name Sharp came from). In 1925 they began producing crystal radio sets and made their first AC/tube radio sets in 1928. They claim to have produced Japan's first commercially released TV set (the TV3-14T) in 1953.

I've been in radio since 1992 so you can imagine that when I saw this picture, I laughed.  You remember those days don't you?  Listening to your radio for