Yes, those old wood floor model radios are great. My brother-in-law
bought a house not too long ago and resting up in the rafters of the
garage was an old mw and shortwave floor model radio. The dial was so
big we first thoght it was an early television! Name escapes me right
now, but I think it's a Zenith, complete with tuning eye and an
internal rotating antenna in a silver metal box. The mahogany case is
dark, but pretty much complete. It's mine for the shipping, if I can
convince the wife it will "work" with our furniture.


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Some of the finest big old radios I have ever seen are in those old
gangster movies on tv.I saw a radio yesterday in a movie (The
Killing,I
think is the title of that movie) that had me drooling over.
cuhulin

There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model Radio.
cuhulin

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| There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model Radio.
| cuhulin

Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
look like truly fine furniture.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:

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| There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model Radio.
| cuhulin

Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
look like truly fine furniture.

I was just sitting here thinking about the nice one I passed up for $75 a few
years ago.

The big black Zenith dial, a perfect cabinet too...

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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| "Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:
|
| wrote in message
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| | There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model
Radio.
| | cuhulin
|
| Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
| look like truly fine furniture.
|
| I was just sitting here thinking about the nice one I passed up for $75 a
few
| years ago.
|
| The big black Zenith dial, a perfect cabinet too...
|
| dxAce
| Michigan
| USA

Holy crap, what a great price.

Right now, the Transoceanics seem to be going (at least locally) for
around that, thanks to the rare/expensive (so they say) 1L6 tube,
intact with both antennas (MW and SW), but I have yet to find
one with an outstanding, clean case.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous

"Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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|
|
| "Stephen M.H. Lawrence" wrote:
|
| wrote in message
| ...
| | There isn't any better furniture in the World than a floor model
Radio.
| | cuhulin
|
| Zenith's chair-side radios, in particular,
| look like truly fine furniture.
|
| I was just sitting here thinking about the nice one I passed up for $75 a
few
| years ago.
|
| The big black Zenith dial, a perfect cabinet too...
|
| dxAce
| Michigan
| USA

Holy crap, what a great price.

Yeah, the more I think about the darn thing I wish I'd bought it. As I recall
the owner of the shop later gave it to her daughter who committed suicide. Who
knows, the little shop is hardly ever open and I've not been there for some
time. Maybe I should try to stop when it's open...



Right now, the Transoceanics seem to be going (at least locally) for
around that, thanks to the rare/expensive (so they say) 1L6 tube,
intact with both antennas (MW and SW), but I have yet to find
one with an outstanding, clean case.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous

"dxAce" wrote:

| Yeah, the more I think about the darn thing I wish I'd bought it. As I
recall
| the owner of the shop later gave it to her daughter who committed suicide.
Who
| knows, the little shop is hardly ever open and I've not been there for
some
| time. Maybe I should try to stop when it's open...

There's a shop called "Grampy's" in the Benson neighborhood, in Omaha,
and they tend to get the chairsides from time to time. I saw a Philco
motorized
console there a couple of years back, and kick myself often for not buying
it.
Also, saw an old Grundig console, with AM/FM/Shortwave and turntable,
selling for $25.00. "Works great," said the tag. "Better recap it," said
I.
What a beautiful radio - once again, another one passed up.

What a pain in the butt.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous

I own some old Zenith transistor Radio's.None of them are floor model
Radio's though.Some of them work ok and some of them do not work at
all.I reckon,altogether,, I probally own over two hundred Radio's.
cuhulin

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| I own some old Zenith transistor Radio's.None of them are floor model
| Radio's though.Some of them work ok and some of them do not work at
| all.I reckon,altogether,, I probally own over two hundred Radio's.
| cuhulin

The '7000 model (don't remember the nomenclature precisely) is,
for its low parts count (or maybe because of its low parts count,
acutally), a really decent portable.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
- Anonymous

Stephen M.H. Lawrence wrote:


wrote in message
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| I own some old Zenith transistor Radio's.None of them are floor model
| Radio's though.Some of them work ok and some of them do not work at
| all.I reckon,altogether,, I probally own over two hundred Radio's.
| cuhulin

The '7000 model (don't remember the nomenclature precisely) is,
for its low parts count (or maybe because of its low parts count,
acutally), a really decent portable.

In another post cuhulin mentions always having a transistor radio with
him when he was in the US Army. That reminds me of something that
happened to me when I lived in San Francisco 10 years ago. I was
browsing the junk for sale at one of the city's sidewalk garage sales,
where homeless people sell stuff fished out of dumpsters in order to eat
or buy some dope. One guy had a TO 7000 in reasonably good shape. He
wanted $20, which I didn't have. He said that he had lugged it through
his entire tour of duty in Vietnam and that it had kept him connected to
home. He didn't want to sell it since it had a lot of sentimental value
to him but he needed to eat. I told him I would get the $20 later that
day and come back tomorrow and if he still had it I would buy it. I came
back the next day at the same time with the $20 but he was nowhere to be
found. I still wish I would have had the money to buy it off him right
then and there. Can you imagine hauling a TO through the jungles of Nam
for a year, what with all those soldiers went through? And then having
to sell it-your last real possession-on some godforsaken street corner
in San Francisco for $20 in order to eat that night? (Another time, I
DID buy some bum's Silvertone AM transistor radio for $4. It had a
hinged plate that flipped up to reveal the dial and thumbwheels. Real
neat little radio. I don't have it anymore, though.)