Posts Tagged ‘history’
Engineer Bob’s Radio Gallery – Winter Edition!
This beautiful radio is The Auditron Single Channel FM Radio, with the original box! This radio does not have a tuning control. It is set to receive a single station. The knob below the phony dial is merely a fine-tuning control. This one came factory tuned to WFLN-FM, the now defunct Philadelphia classical […]
Stereo, but in a different way
This late nineteen-fifties Emerson model 908 table radio received stereo broadcasts years before the current FM multiplex stereo standard was adopted. Some AM&FM broadcast stations were starting to experiment with stereo broadcasting by using their AM signal for the left channel and their FM for the right, or vice-versa. This radio allows you to listen […]
Engineer Bob’s Radio Gallery 2
GE “Atomic 440” Radio From the “Atomic” design style of the 1950’s. I saw one of these radios in an old photo of WBJC’s transmitter site (actual picture!), so I had to have one! This GE “Atomic 440” radio has seven tubes and a selenium rectifier. There is a phono input on the back. I […]
Engineer Bob’s Radio Gallery
This Emerson radio dates back to the late 1940’s. The cabinet was designed by the studios of Raymond Loewy, famed industrial designer. Lowey was responsible for the design of the Shell Oil logo, Studebaker automobiles, Coca-cola products and the US postal service eagle logo. It was quite unusual for a company like Emerson to build […]
Oliver Stone’s Untold History
Oliver Stone is no stranger to controversy. His trilogy of Vietnam war films, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth; his take on the Kennedy assignation in JFK; the violence of Natural Born Killers; his “greed is good” indictment in Wall Street, his portrayal of Turkish people in Midnight Express, and […]
“The Leopard”: epic in every sense of the word
Back in November, Jim & I were lucky enough to catch a revival screening of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 film “The Leopard” at the Charles. Since I occasionally play excerpts from the film’s soundtrack (fabulous work by Nino Rota, with a little help from Verdi) on WBJC & am a longtime fan of old movies, […]
