Ron Lawrence KC4YOY wrote:

May 1st, 2005, 35 years ago today I bought my first "antique" radio.
I've created a little web page to tell the story.
http://radioheaven.homestead.com/35years.html


73, Ron


Hmmmm........ memories

Approximately 1972 or 1973, so I would have been 14 or 15 I guess. I
remember hooking up to the tractor, the trailer cart that we were using
to sell vegetables at my families roadside market garden. I drove a
couple of miles down the next concession to us, loaded in a 1920's
Columbia console, a lovely unit with two dors that slid on brass rails
to hide inside the cabinet. My brother and I (he's 6 years younger than
I) loaded it in, tied it down and headed home. Because I was too young
to drive on the roads (or so they thought - little did they know :-) ),
I had to take the back lanes and the fields to get onto the concession.
It's a wonder the radio made it! I still have it. It's in my dining
room, some 33 years later.

cheers

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- does that apply to life also?)

On Sun, 01 May 2005 19:21:13 -0400, John Bartley wrote:

Ron Lawrence KC4YOY wrote:

May 1st, 2005, 35 years ago today I bought my first "antique" radio. I've
created a little web page to tell the story.
http://radioheaven.homestead.com/35years.html


73, Ron


Hmmmm........ memories

Approximately 1972 or 1973, so I would have been 14 or 15 I guess. I
remember hooking up to the tractor, the trailer cart that we were using to
sell vegetables at my families roadside market garden. I drove a couple of
miles down the next concession to us, loaded in a 1920's Columbia console,
a lovely unit with two dors that slid on brass rails to hide inside the
cabinet. My brother and I (he's 6 years younger than I) loaded it in, tied
it down and headed home. Because I was too young to drive on the roads (or
so they thought - little did they know :-) ), I had to take the back lanes
and the fields to get onto the concession. It's a wonder the radio made
it! I still have it. It's in my dining room, some 33 years later.

cheers
Ahh 15, 16 , 17 and 18 years old. Thed early 70s.
I was down in the basement of the Staten Island Historical Society Museum
tinkering with the radio and phone collection. They had as I remember:
Several AK Model 20.
An AK Model 37 (AC powerered withj potted transformers made of green
metal) A Grebe-Eisman Synchrophase
Some GE units in wooden boxes (do not rememberany model info)
Several Victrolas.
Several Edison Cylinder Players
A real beautiful Regina Music Box that played 12 inch metal disks.
Much, mush more. A rela treasure trove.


--
Mike McGinn
Registered Linux User 377849
"more kidneys than eyes!"

A Grebe-Eisman Synchrophase


That's a strange combo, I wonder what it looks like?

Ron

On Mon, 02 May 2005 00:29:24 +0000, Ron Lawrence KC4YOY wrote:


A Grebe-Eisman Synchrophase


That's a strange combo, I wonder what it looks like?

Ron
As I recall it was about 20 inches wide and about 8 deep, three tuning
dials mounted horizontally so they came through the panel, linked by a
chain drive aas I recall.

--
Mike McGinn
Registered Linux User 377849
"more kidneys than eyes!"

Hi,

A Grebe-Eisman Synchrophase

That's a strange combo, I wonder what it looks like?

As I recall it was about 20 inches wide and about 8 deep, three tuning
dials mounted horizontally so they came through the panel, linked by a
chain drive aas I recall.

That's a Grebe Synchrophase. There was another company, Eisemann
Magneto Corp., that made some vaguely similar models, except that only
their rheostats were horizontal, not the tuning dials. Freed-Eisemann
(no relation) was also a well-known maker in the 1920s.

73, Alan