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Originally Posted by Aage
But I can remember seeing thousands of them as a kid. Crosley was a big brand around here (Toronto).
My parents had a Crosley about this size, but the bottom was a drawer that held an AM FM (yep, FM, years before the band was in use here) plus a record changer.
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Toronto isn't that far from Buffalo, New York. People who owned FM radios before there were FM stations in Toronto could likely get stations from south of the border. Also, many AM/FM radios (and three-way TV combos) were sold to folks living in areas miles from the nearest FM station; the radios in these were likely used only or mostly on AM, which resulted in the FM oscillator tube eventually failing to start or starting intermittently.
Crosley was popular in this country as well in the 1950s. My folks had a blond Crosley "Super V" 21-inch transformerless TV they bought used, IIRC, in the early sixties; we had it until the early '70s, and it was still working well even then. I'll never forget watching that set one afternoon when I was seven years old. During a commercial break, one of the Cleveland TV stations ran a Conelrad (the United States cold-war era emergency broadcasting network, now replaced by the Emergency Alert System) test. Seeing the old "CD" symbol (a triangle inside a large black dot with the letters CD, for Civilian Defense, in black in the middle, themselves overlaying a red dot when viewed on a color set--on b&w TVs it was all black, white and shades of gray) as big as life on that 21" TV screen used to scare the daylights out of me--I thought for sure the Russians were going to blow Cleveland, northeast Ohio and every place else within 100 miles in all directions (!) off the map any second.
