I am a youngin'. Only 42. So I have no memories of these old sets. However, my collecting started when I was looking through old family photos with my parents. Both my Mom and Dad identified their first TVs and radios in the photographs. Dad had a Crosley 307-TA (RCA 630 clone) and Mom had a DuMont RA-108 Mansfield. So the hunt was on. I now have 3 family set models. Crosley, DuMont 108 and DuMont 103 Doghouse (Crosley and Doghouse working). I then started branching out and the collecting was on. Not really sure why I personally love it. Just do. Love the old technology. Makes me feel closer to my parents and grandparents (who are long gone). Love listening to an old radio or watching an old set and knowing that the experience I am having is the same they were having 65-80 years ago. Just something neat about that.
I have my Great Grandfather's Edison Standard Phonograph, that was in my father's attic for decades. I got a hold of it several years ago and restored it. When I hear that play, makes me think about them, listening to it in the early 1900s, before radio and TV and it makes me smile.
