|
|
|
#1
06-05-2009, 12:38 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Picked up a Wards Airline Table Radio
When I was young, I inherited a Wards Airline AM-FM radio from my grandmother. It was a table model in a dark brown Bakelite cabinet. I used it until I got my first stereo in 1974. I don't know what happened to it, though I suspect that my parents pitched it out in one of their household moves.
Fast forward to this April. I was idly searching eBay and ran into the identical twin to that old radio. I bid immediately and ended up buying it for $27 and change, including shipping. I did some Web research on it and found that it was made for Montgomery Ward by Wells-Gardner -- the company my grandmother used to work for in Chicago -- in 1951. The radio looks great, and it powers up and works on both the AM and FM bands. Sometimes you win ...
__________________
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." -- Frank Zappa 
|
|
#2
06-05-2009, 12:44 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Wells Gardner made some of the best Airline stuff, all the way back to the 1930s.
Post a pic!
__________________
Summer's here and the time is right. 
|
|
#4
06-05-2009, 04:06 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Beautiful! One of my projects on the list is a '35 Airline that needs recapping, as well as it's dial needle repaired/replaced. (one end is broke off)
__________________
Death: Man how old is this TV?, You probably get the DuMont network on this thing!
|
|
#5
06-05-2009, 10:24 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Very nice!
__________________
|
| Audiokarma |
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
