Just a few old radios (and a couple TVs) for your viewing pleasure.

[Ohighway]

Today I ventured into a part of the house that I haven't been in for awhile.

I cracked off a few shots of some old radios I have laying around. As a bonus, I also took a photo of my collection of vintage TV sets (two !! lol...)


RCA Victor 225 on left, GE? B-86 on right.


Philco 38-7 chairside that somebody (not me) started to restore.


Emerson AM-FM (so called "stereo") radio.


Philco 42-390.


Zenith 10S690 and my 'huge' vintage TV collection. Two GE portables.


Zenith 11S474.

[Ohighway]

One more radio that's in that room.

RCA International radio.




And a couple 'friends' from down the hall...

Philco 37-116 on left and Zenith 8S463 on right.

[Sandy G]

Ahh HATE Yew...-Yosemite Sam, Esq....Seriously, GREAT collection !

[snelson903]

thats alot of goodies there !

[Ohighway]

Well the camera was out so I decided to shoot a couple more pix.

First off is a Silvertone 1390 "Grandmother" clock/radio.


A big old Stromberg Carlson 460-PF.




A little RCA Victor radio/phono.


And last a Sylvania 5P16 transistor radio I just acquired. Still looking for a nicer one though!!

[radiodayz]

Wow, cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.

[Reece]

You have some nice sets! Wow, that big Stromberg-Carlson is something. The Emerson AM+FM is from a time in the early sixties just before multiplex, when some stations experimented with stereo broadcasts, one channel on their AM transmitter and the other channel on their FM. Most people joining in to hear the experiments just used two radios but a few manufacturers actually made sets that would receive both signals. Arvin was another one that I know of. All the broadcasts I heard like that back then were orchestral, classical or semi-classical.

[DavGoodlin]

That RCA International radio appears to be German-made. Nordemende?.

[Kamakiri]

That Philco 42-390 looks in amazing shape. Every one I've had of that model, the bakelite bezel was either badly warped or broken.....

[Ohighway]

Originally Posted by Reece

You have some nice sets! Wow, that big Stromberg-Carlson is something. The Emerson AM+FM is from a time in the early sixties just before multiplex, when some stations experimented with stereo broadcasts, one channel on their AM transmitter and the other channel on their FM. Most people joining in to hear the experiments just used two radios but a few manufacturers actually made sets that would receive both signals. Arvin was another one that I know of. All the broadcasts I heard like that back then were orchestral, classical or semi-classical.

Yeah, that Stromberg Carlson is a massive set. 40" wide x 44.5" tall x 17.5" deep.

I have several tuners around here that utilize the early AM-FM stereo scheme. They're interesting curiosities at best....

Here's a couple more radios. Chairsides. A Sparton and a Zenith.


Sparton 578 Chairside.


Glass is scratched on the Sparton.


Zenith 6S147 "Zephyr" chairside.


Zenith is missing three knobs... which I'm currently searching for.

[Ohighway]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

That Philco 42-390 looks in amazing shape. Every one I've had of that model, the bakelite bezel was either badly warped or broken.....

Thanks, the radio really is in great shape. However that bezel has not survived without some damage. There's a couple of small broken out pieces near the screws...... I guess it broke when the plastic started to shrink. BTW, isn't that plastic called Tenite?

[Dan Starnes]

That is sure an admirable collection!

[Celt]

Amazing collection!

[Sandy G]

That's the thing I sometimes miss about Boatanchors- Technical sophistication, to be sure, but nobody's ever gonna accuse an R-390A of being "Pretty"...One reviewer called the EK-07 the UGLIEST radio he'd ever seen...That's stretching things a bit, the one I think is a mess visually, is the Hallicrafters SX-73...There was obviously no consideration whatsoever given to its appearance. One could be forgiven in thinking it was actually an engineering mock-up... Unusual for Hallicrafters, who usually made their radios LOOK as impressive as their perfrormance...

[hi_volt]

Wow! Nice collection. And I thought I had a lot of stuff.....