[Jeffhs]

My dad had a bunch of old Sams Photofacts from the '50s and '60s that had at least one Bulova radio folder. The radio was your basic garden-variety AA5 from the mid-1950s, IIRC; it must have been from 1953 at the earliest, as the tuning dial still had Conelrad marks at 640 and 1240 kHz. I don't remember if this set had a solid metal chassis or the whole thing was on a PC board. I remember another radio, made by a famous watch maker of the '50s whose schematic/alignment data was in that batch of PFs, but don't recall the brand--whether it was another Bulova, Elgin or what.

I once had a regulator-type wall clock with a quartz battery-operated movement, with the name "Elgin" on the clock face. Don't know if it was actually made by Elgin (the real deal) or some offshore company using the name under license--or if the name was in the public domain by this time (early 1990s). I bought the clock at a Big Lots store in my hometown for something like $20, and it looked like it had been through heck and back--the cabinet was scratched and dinged like anything. But it ran as soon as I put a C-size battery in it, and I used it for perhaps six or seven years. Ran well all that time. I can only hope my present wall clock, a Seth Thomas quartz battery clock in a wood case, runs just as well and as long (I got it as a Christmas present seven years ago).