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Originally Posted by steerpike2
I have only a little 'old stuff' that came from family members who bought it new. The rest was all bought second hand, and THAT is an interesting part of it: who listened to it, what they did with it, where it has been, why they sold it, etc.
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Yeah, I always ask the seller what he knows about the history of any old radio I buy.
I bought a Philco 39-25 recently from a guy for $10. He said that it had been in his attic for about the last 40 years and that it (he had to kind of whisper this part... in case his wife overheard, I guess) had belonged to his ex-girlfriend's father. He'd taken it to the flea market to sell a few times but hadn't sold it.
He also told me it used to get just one station until about a year ago (a lot of people selling old radios around here tell me that...assuming the radio is broken, but in reality we only have 1 am radio station here).