On August 18th, 1931, you might have heard the news on your brand new General Motors 252 Cosmopolitan radio that in Detroit, Lou Gehrig had just played his 1000th consecutive game. If you had attached the antenna wire correctly. #AntiqueRadio #LouGehrig #Photography #Baseball #AugustEighteenth
Apparently, early radios were built from Parmesan shakers, with maybe a little crushed red pepper.
Looks really dramatic from the front though! www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_mo...
I remember going to the electronics store with my dad to buy tubes. That was mostly what they sold, various vacuum tubes to fix TVs and radios.