Wonderful your Highness of Collectornet. 👍🧐

Outstanding video! I am 64 years old, and I recognize a Magnavox eight transistor radio that my grandfather had.

You had me for a second, when you said the granddaughter wanted to grow up to be a scientist.😂 We always love seeing items in your collection. Thank you for sharing.

Gees! What a fine presentation in all ways! Just NEAT !! 👍

I always enjoy hearing your perspective on these collectible radios. You retain a whole lot of wisdom my fine sir. Thank you for continuing to share your substantial portable radio collection with us! Fred

Thank you for posting. Well written and narrated!

Excellent, 🤣🤣🤣

We're just enjoying our shared heritage and ancestry.

Newport, oh, that's a towne in England. Parliament, oh, that's a cigarette brand Viceroy ? Monarch? What am I smoking?

From 2:05, I have the black/beige version of this Queen boy's radio with its original vinyl case. Bought it for few bucks in a garage sale. It is in pristine condition and... still working😳!

nice

I know transistors were an expensive component but that little set has a lot of copper in those transformers and a rather well made tuning capacitor and it is UNDER PAINTED !. 1 transistor as mixer and IF and 1 for output, the mind boggles why they cheeped out or was this a set given away as a cereal promotion.

Why would you think that being a scientist is not in her future? She is your granddaughter you know and she might take offense if you said that to her.

Great video and thanks for not adding any goofy music to it

$29.95 in 1960 2024 $318.26

$49.95 in 1959 2024 $540.45 today,

The best narrator anywhere! That was great.

I drove home from Beaumont hospital this past Tuesday, going around Chrysler corner down Woodward to 696. Things were starting to ramp up and I'd never been that close to the action before. The etiquette was to allow a wide berth at driveways for cruisers to pull out. Cool stuff!

We had the TV but I never saw any radio.

Very enjoyable! Thank you for identifying Kresge Store #13 in downtown Pontiac. As you probably remember, there were Kresge stores all along Woodward from Detroit to Pontiac, with Kresge Store #1 downtown at Grand River & Woodward. By the way, I once owned an '84 LeBaron convertible too.

Very cool "home video". 👍

Nice car show. Is this a rerun?

Smelly in the most beautiful way. 👍🤠

The dream cruise is crazy and fun

I love all of your videos, especially the transistor radios, but this was a super treat. Thank you so very much. BTW, I'm surprised that Vega is still running!

That Dodge was a 1957. The '58 had the smaller quad headlights, two on each side. The '57 had the same large sealed beam as the '56, that smaller light was the turn signal/ parking light.

Wow! What a wonderful video and narration. When I was a kid (I was born in '62) I dreamed of the day when I would be an adult and can afford a Cadillac or a Lincoln (we were poor). I've looked at these cars as recently as 10 years ago, and I it was sad. They just don't have any class, style, or quality anymore. And since 2020, there' no more Lincoln Continental!

All rich people way out of my bracket still my old rusty 32 is fun

Cars that I owned as a kid, were a 1972 VW Bug, 1971, 72, and 73 Ford Mustangs, and 1976, 77, and 78 Pontiac Trans Am. By the time I was about 25, I started buying new cars and trucks but I still miss those old cars. My first new car was a 1985 Pontiac Trans Am but still to this day, my favorite is my 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that looked like the Smokey and The Bandit Car in the movie with Burt Reynolds. Thanks for the video tour.

Lovely to see these fine machines strutting their stuff I can smell the unburnt hydrocarbons in England Mmmmmm. Studebaker made cars that looked like they belonged in the Jetson's, as for the Fiat (spider me thinks) that was a nice car as long as it did not get wet then the Gremlins appear. Most enjoyable video and informed commentary however I think Gretta Thurnberg will not be so happy. Land Rover, as a Brit I must give you our humblest apologies as Land Rover seem to have taken the batten from Lucas (smoke impregnated wiring) and continue by selling over engineered and unnecessarily complicated bling machines that even a Brit can't get to work without first opening your wallet. Bye a Toyota and avoid the anxiety.

Thank you for this video! As always very informative and a pleasure listening, even here in europe!

Channel Master was an interesting company primarily known for antennas. It was located in upstate NY and was financed by a cabbage farmer.

I enjoyed this video. Collecting transistor radios is fun. Especially when I can make them work. I had a TR 610 with a SONY case and earphone. Sony is cool. But, I’m really a fan of Westinghouse radios.

Good find! ^_^

It is actually good policy. You have to consider the time this film was made - this was prior to the development of thermonuclear weapons, when the USSR and US had relatively limited stockpiles of fission-based weapons, which were delivered by aircraft. Accuracy was considered relatively low, and there was a chance that bombers could be shot down, limiting the destruction. In the event that you were at or near the epicentre of a nuclear detonation, obviously you would not survive. Everyone understood that, even most of the children watching this film at the time. Of course, if you were close enough, you might not even see a flash. The expanding nuclear fireball and heat would be so intense and quick, that you would be vaporised before your optic nerve could convey any signals to your occiput (I actually think it would be one of the most painless deaths imaginable - you would die before your thalamus could even interpret any signals from pain fibres in your body). But for those on the periphery of an explosion, the advice could be useful. If you lived far enough away, after seeing a flash, you may have a few seconds to position yourself to reduce your exposure to super-heated air, pressure and flying debris. It could increase your odds of survival significantly. Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki often did state that sheltering behind walls or throwing themselves to the ground aided in their survival. of course, with modern thermonuclear weapons, ICBMS and MIRVs - duck and cover is no longer as useful. At least 3 warheads will be assigned to any strategically important economic asset (i.e city), usually with overlapping fields of destruction, so the odds of any survival if you live anywhere close to a major city is practically zero. And even if you did manage to survive, you'd probably easily find yourself in one of those "the survivors envy the dead" scenario. But remember, this film was made in 1950, or close to it. Nuclear war with the weaponry available to them at the time would not have been as devastating, and you could even rationally argue that it was " survivable", from a nation-state perspective. Depending on the efficiency of air defences, you could prevent enough bombers from invading your airspace to possibly avert total destruction. So - Duck and Cover was reasonable policy for the time.

I love the way you speak in these videos. It makes you want to just listen to whatever you have to say about these fine old pieces. A good speaking voice with emotional tones that grab your attention.

The girl holdingthe radio is scary looking, she makes me feel uneasy.

I’m glad you clarified all the information. There are some people who believed that the Standard Oil company owned Sony. Some people believed that the letters stood for the Standard Oil New York company. This was a big rumour for a long time. Glad you clarified all this. You should do a history of both the Matsushita and Sony companies. And yes you will find are related.

So I was in the gestation period, being born or less than a month fresh when Sony set up shop at 514 Broadway. 🤔 Also, at the bottom of the survey card reads: "Upon our receipt of this card properly filled in by your ratings and comment, we will send you something in return." I wonder what that "something" was. 🤔 Stayin tuned! 👍🤠

thanks for this super interesting and informative video. The historical info and value is very much apreciated. It seems to me Sony spend a lot and went through great lengths to protect their prodvalucts, which naturally affected their products Sony's main rival Matsushita didn't seem to see such a need and saw their products of similar quality and value were somewhat affordable than the Sony equivalent, am I right??? Also, Matsushita seems to spent considerably less on advertising than Sony..

I am humbled by your collection and knowledge of these early radios. Could one find a better channel to learn from, I think not. Thank you very much for your obviously great passion for the history and the hobby.

I love that "lime green" one you showed in the catalog! Do you have one in your collection?

Radios, cameras, and binoculars often came with real leather cases back then.

Corporate greed. So many complain about overseas companies "stealing" American jobs when in fact American companies quest to maximize profits shipped the jobs to low cost factories.

Does this radio still work, and how many of your radios still work? I have the TR-84 in the ad. It still works great with no capacitors or parts changed. I found it ten years ago in a thrift store tool bin for 5 bucks. When I bought it I thought it was from the 80's until I took off the back and saw the insides.

50 dollar 1959 - that's really expensive. Around 500 dollar today. They were quite expensive radios.

Thanks for another interesting and informative video, Eric...👍

Thank you for the video. Put next to the Emerson 888 "Atlas" the grill is slightly reminiscent. You should write a book, perhaps you already did?

00:45 : Pitted, Corroded, Oxidised, I like to say priceless 'historic patina' . You are the custodian of a lovely collection, thank you for sharing. Patina; a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use. Usually a green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its colour. Ref Websters Dictionary

Agree. USA styling in the 50s was the best and most adventurous!