Old Photo - My Kinda Candy Store

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 10:47 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Garrett - Boonville, Missouri on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 03:38 pm:

Wow! That's a huge picture!

It's an Oldsmobile, not a Ford. Oh well.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Garrett - Boonville, Missouri on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 03:39 pm:

Compressed Oldsmobile Parts Dept.

I fixed it!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Garnet on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 03:55 pm:

I'll take the radio and hornspeaker if nobody else minds.

Garnet


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Garrett - Boonville, Missouri on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 04:00 pm:

Is that a Crystal Radio Set?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Patrick on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 04:10 pm:

Looks like an old Atwater Kent, which would have had vacuum tubes. Jim Patrick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Button III (Chip), Lake Clear, NY on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 04:56 pm:

I'd be happy with some of the Champion plugs and some tools!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 04:48 am:

The radio does not look like any Atwater Kent I have ever seen. Definitely a vacuum tube radio. Three big dial knobs on the front, probably two smaller ones down on the right front (can't tell for sure, the sign is in the way). It would be about 1925 t0 '27. I have a small, wood cabinet Atwater Kent from about 1926 or '27. I also have a couple of the more common steel cabinet Atwater Kent radios from 1928 or '29. They are considered by many radio people to be the "model T of the radio world".
That radio looks a lot like a couple that my dad had. When he died, my dad had more than 200 antique radios. About 50 of them were from the 1920s. Most, were in pretty good original condition. My mother and brother still have more than half of them.
In the 1920s, there were about 100 serious manufacturers of radios. Plus smaller companies that made some as well as kits you could build for yourself. I have one such radio. It is in very good original condition, and has no name on it anywhere.
While I am down there for the Endurance Run, I should make a list and take some closeup pictures.
Given the Pontiac six sign on the wall, that radio would have been a couple years old when the photo was taken.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2


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